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1899WE16717London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London 1899: Leonard Smithers and Co. First edition one of 1000 copies only. Octavo. Lavender cloth decorated in gilt and with spine lettering gilt. Fore edges uncut. 213 pp. A tight example very good with three very small chips along the rear gutter edge and a approximately ½†square chip to the rear area of the foot of the spine strip. Leonard Smithers hardcover
1891139780London: James R. Osgood 1891. First edition of this collection of Wilde's humorous mystery stories published the same year as the first edition in book form of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Octavo original stiff paper-covered boards. In good condition. Very rare. Wilde’s “theme is not as is often supposed art’s divorce from life but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wilde’s essays is in make-believe the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure his created world contains much pain†Ellmann xvi. In addition to the title story Wilde's Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories contains The Sphinx withoout a Secret The Canterville Ghost and The Model Millionaire. James R. Osgood hardcover
19172222372<p>First edition thus. 10" x 7 1/2". Original tan stiff printed wrappers. Four page introduction by Clement K. Shorter. No dust jacket. Very good. 12 pages.</p><p><br />Number 17 of 25 copies signed by Shorter.</p><p>Four letters from 1897 to Dalhousie Young 1866-1921 English pianist and composer. In 1895 he published "Apologia Pro Oscar Wilde" defending Wilde.</p> Privately Printed
19087381613 volumes of a 14 volume set on handmade paper limited edition of 1000 Published by Methuen & Co hardcover
1894191028Oxford: J. Vincent; Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. London 1894. An uncommon parody of Wilde First edition one of 750 copies of this Oxford play satirizing Oscar Wilde. The authors of this anonymous parody an entertaining imitation of the classical Greek comedy of Aristophanes were three Oxford undergraduates. Leopold Amery 1873-1955 later a prominent journalist and conservative politician. Francis Wrigley Hirst 1873-1953 later a successful journalist editor of The Economist and biographer of Thomas Jefferson. Little is known about Henry Alford Antony Cruso besides that he published another drama in 1907. The initialism Y.T.O. comprises the last letter of their surnames. Octavo. Original buff wrappers front cover lettered in green. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Booklabel of Timothy D'Arch Smith b. 1936 the British author and co-founder of Victim Press; illustrated bookplate of Jeremy J. Mason designed by David Ward and dated 1974 on initial leaf. Spine a little chipped wrappers toned and soiled edges nicked sporadic foxing. A good copy. Mason 685. hardcover
1893193515London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it First edition one of 500 trade copies of Wilde's first comedy play produced at the St James's Theatre on 20 February 1892. An instant success it is considered "revolutionary in its mingling of the vocabulary of comedy the potential of tragedy and the insistence on realism" ODNB. Cigarette in hand Wilde made his legendary curtain call on the opening night: "Your appreciation has been most intelligent. I congratulate you on the great success of your performance which persuades me that you think almost as highly of the play as I do myself." An additional 50 large-paper copies were also issued. Small quarto. With 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated September 1893 at end. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt stylized flower and leaf motifs by Charles Shannon in gilt to spine and covers edges untrimmed. Contemporary black ink ownership inscription of Amy Scorer to front free endpaper a couple of marginal annotations in pencil. Spine toned extremities a little worn scattered marks to covers ring mark to rear: a very good copy. Mason 357. hardcover
1898183481London: Leonard Smithers 1898. For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die First edition one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; a further 30 copies on japon were published simultaneously. The first edition sold out rapidly and a second edition was issued within weeks. Octavo. Original white quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt light brown cloth sides edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom yellow cloth chemise and quarter calf with yellow cloth slipcase. Bookplate and shelf-label of John Sowden; unrelated contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Spine browned soiling to covers ends and corners bumped damp stain and browning to endpapers spots of foxing to contents. A good copy. Mason 371. hardcover
190421798Who knows. : Smithers/Wright and Jones 1904. First Edition softcover of 64 pages stated 'Privately printed'. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection unnumbered of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers are soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Rubbing and wear to the edges A comic ghost story and two further societal studies published by Leonard Smithers or by Wright & Jones after Wilde's death in 1900. Smithers/Wright and Jones paperback
1920191449London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1920. A beautiful and silent Sphinx First Alastair edition one of 1000 copies elaborately decorated with illustrations by Baron Hans-Henning von Voight 1887-1969 who published under the pseudonym Alastair. His illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Quarto. Frontispiece and 9 plates with captioned tissue guards pictorial initials and illustrations in text all printed in blue and black. Original white cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt and turquoise illustration top edge gilt others uncut. Housed in custom orange cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason; New York bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine lightly toned decorations bright occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
189422263London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end dated March 1894 Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled spine extremities creased binding tight; a reasonably sound copy. John Lane hardcover books
192875261Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. Fine. Editions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 28.50 cm broché sous chemise L'Anniversaire de l'infante The Birthday of the InfantaÉditions Narcisse Paris 1928 23 x 285 cm original wrappers sous chemise Edition illustrated with paged and unpaged drawings by Alastair with 110 printed copies ours is one of 100 copies printed on Holland Van Gelder Zone the only grand papier deluxe copies after 10 Japan Imperial. Scattered foxing most noticeable at the beginning and end of the volume. Editions Narcisse unknown
1886d2793London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spines. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp; viii 160pp iv; vii 160pp plates. 37 plates 24 b/w 13 sepia 1 fold-out. Published 1886-18878. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
1922192880London: Beaumont Press 1922. An admirable amateur binding First edition extra limited issue number 15 of 75 copies printed on Japanese vellum; the colophon states that these copies signed by the publisher C. W. Beaumont and the artist Randolph Schwabe but this is unsigned. The binding is ambitiously and unusually designed its many individual uses of the gouge tool executed by an amateur hand. This is the second volume of Wilde's letters to Ross following After Reading 1921. Cyril William Beaumont 1891-1976 established his private press in 1917 which continued into the late 1920s. A further 400 copies were issued on handmade paper. Octavo 216 x 147 mm. Wood-engraved plate title page and vignettes printed in colours. Contemporary brown morocco spine lettered in gilt boards tooled with gouges in blind blind floral tools and two gilt star-shaped tools to create frames and central medallions two gilt star-shaped tools to turn-ins blue endpapers top edge gilt fore and bottom edges uncut. Boards gently bowed endpapers foxed. A near-fine copy. hardcover
1909325271New York: Bigelow Brown & Co 1909. Authorized edition. Hardcover. All 10 volumes Very Good in boards. Light shelfwear on panel corners and spine crown and heel of all 10 volumes. Rubbing on spine labels of volumes 1-4. Open tear on spine side edge of volume 3. Crack on front hinge and spine detaching from binding of volume 3. Front hinges starting on volume 8 and 9. Bigelow, Brown & Co hardcover
184081636Dublin: William Curry Jun. And Company. 1840. 2 volumes vol Ipp xvi 464 & vol II pp viii 495 frontis both vols water stained to verso text ills new endpapers both vols signed R. Hoddle Surveyor-General of Victoria top of t.p. both well recased half calf with green cloth maroon title pieces darker stain to front cloth vol I. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde was an Irish surgeon author and also the father of Oscar Wilde. Account of his travels as medical attendant to Robert Meilklam. Half calf. William Curry, Jun. And Company unknown
190516244Paris: Privately Printed 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 50 copies. Good. Original wraps generally toned some spots of soiling a very small chip at the head of the spine tear down much of the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound with unopened pages some foxing at the edges clean otherwise. A pirated edition printed by Charles Carrington with the text taken from the July 1894 issue of The Fortnightly Review. Mason 609. Privately Printed hardcover
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1907629171907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Hermann Struck 1876-1944is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe including Herzl Ibsen Nietzsche Freud Einstein Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903 after several study trips throughout Europe he visited Palestine and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way of life. In 1923 he returned to Palestine and settled in Haifa. By now a master of the craft of etching Struck taught graphic techniques to such fellow artists as Chagall Liebermann Israels Corinth Ury and Budko. His book Die Kunst des Radierens 1923 a popular guide book for artists and connoisseurs provides both technical explanations and practical instruction.<br /> Struck excelled as a portraitist. He also recorded landscapes Jewish and Arab types and scenes from the Jewish diaspora. He spent time in England and became a member of the London Society of Painters Etchers and Engravers. unknown
1911426216Boston: The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal 1911. Unbound. Near Fine. Stock Certificate No. 129 for two shares issued by The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal Corporation. Measuring 10.5" x 5.25" including stub. Attached at the margin with a stub to a transfer document. Stock certificate of the first and most important woman's suffrage periodical and includes the signatures of several famous proponents of the movement. Signed by Alice Stone Blackwell Francis J. Garrison and Catherine Wilde. The attached transfer awards the two shares to The Proprietors from the Estate of H.M. Pitman. Near fine.<br /> <br /> The Woman's Journal was the first regular woman's rights periodical in America. Its publication was the crowning achievement of Lucy Stone's long and distinguished feminist career. According to HAWH:<br /> <br /> "Stone's most active and lasting contribution to the women's movement is The Woman's Journal which she founded in 1870 and edited until her death in 1893. This extraordinary archive of women's history provided a weekly chronicle of woman's progress - political vocational economic cultural and legal-both in the United States and abroad.for over sixty one years."<br /> <br /> As the political organ of the National American Woman Suffrage Association The Woman's Journal printed meeting and convention addresses and notes reported on national and international news published columns and editorials on the suffrage struggle as well as poems stories and book reviews. Regular contributors included Julia Ward Howe William Lloyd Garrison T.W. Higginson and of course Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Brown Blackwell. After Stone's 1893 death her daughter Alice Stone Blackwell assumed responsibility for producing and editing the journal which was renamed The Woman Citizen; contributors to this new incarnation of the periodical read like a virtual who's who of early modern feminism: Susan B. Anthony Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were only a few of the names on its ever-expanding masthead.<br /> <br /> This stock certificate from the founding of The Woman's Journal's production is a tangible artifact of the first American woman's rights periodical and a glimpse at the relationships and efforts behind its financing. The Proprietors of The Woman's Journal unknown
1894004078London: John Lane/Bodley Head 1894. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good to Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This first edition of Wilde's play limited to 500 copies was published a year before his masterpiece "The Importance of Being Earnest". Publisher's bookplate front pastedown hinges starting fading to spine cloth. Pink cloth with gilt trim and gilt decorations edges untrimmed. <br/> <br/> John Lane/Bodley Head hardcover
1893002401London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. 18 132 14 2 pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned per the norm for the paper stock but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson" who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots and one is likely not to find it prepossessing. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh unknown
1893002401London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. 18 132 14 2 pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned per the norm for the paper stock but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson" who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots and one is likely not to find it prepossessing. <br/><br/> Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh hardcover books
192844546Paris: Black Sun Press Editions Narcisse 1928. Of an edition limited to 113 this is # 23 of 100 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Softcover. Very good/Very good. Paris: Black Sun Press Editions Narcisse 1928. Of an edition limited to 113 this is # 23 of 100 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper. Frontispiece and 8 plates in color and metallic inks by Alastair. 30 pp. Softcover. 4to. Cream stiff wrappers. Light scattered foxing else very good in a glassine wrapper with a small chip at the heel and the tip of the corners worn through. Errata slip tipped-in at back. Housed in a completely restored silver chemise and slipcase. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. Black Sun Press, Editions Narcisse paperback books
1921258789New York: Bigelow Brown & Co 1921. Authorized edition. Frontispiece to each volume. 10 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco and cloth sides. Some toning to spines else VG. Authorized edition. Frontispiece to each volume. 10 vols. 8vo. Bigelow, Brown & Co unknown books
