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1914WRCLIT57846New York: James F. Drake 1914. Boards paper label. Portrait. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies from a total edition of three hundred. Fine in chipped and torn glassine. James F. Drake hardcover books
1923D11963Paris: Privately Printed 1923. Limited Edition 75/150. Hardcover. Fair. Paper-covered boards; small 4to. Contains 19 sonnets printed on the recto only. Boards warped with water-damaged; dents along spine and edges of boards. Certainly not pretty but contents are clean. A good candidate for rebinding. Sold as is. <br/><br/> Privately Printed hardcover books
1905WN31426London: Methuen and Co. 1905. 2 prior owner bookplates on front endpapers. Preliminaries offsetting including from laid-in newspaper clipping regarding a falsified De Profundis manuscript. Clipping source and date not present. Pencil notation on read pastedown that this is first edition first issue. 40 page Methuen catalogue dated February 1905 at rear. Ink handwritten underlined quotation beneath title as follows: "Rien n'est vrai que le beau". Some soiling of title page but text quite clean. TEG other edges untrimmed. Spine ends and corners bumped with minor loss of cloth. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Methuen and Co. Hardcover books
1921W098OWNew York: Mitchell Kennerley 1921. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering and facsimile author signature on upper board. TEG other edges untrimmed. Some mild soiling and wear bur overall very good. Some paste action and browning of endpapers. Hand numbered 289 of 1000 printed. Plain board slipcase with paper spine titling label. Slipcase has 2" split at bottom of spine wear on edges and sunning. Facsimile of last pg. of manuscript opposite title page. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Good/Slipcase Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Mitchell Kennerley Hardcover books
1973141856N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>A woman checks into a motel in Wyoming renting a cabin for a week and begins cleaning a rifle. No one has the slightest suspicion that she is responsible for a string of murders and will likely strike again. <br/><br/>Set in Wyoming. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers with a die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1973 with credits for screenwriter Alton Wilde. 92 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1943146447Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Post-production script for the 1943 anthology film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the title page reading UF145. <br/><br/>A three-part anthology film with supernatural stories woven together by a conversation about the occult between two clubmen. The second of the three stories is based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 short story "Lord Arthur Savillle's Crime."<br/><br/>White titled self-wrappers noted as REVISED VERSION on the front wrapper dated AUGUST 28 1943 with credits for director Julien Duvivier and actors Charles Boyer Barbara Stanwyck Robert Benchley and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound at the top edge with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1928WN65225New York: E.P. Dutton 1928. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper covered boards with gilt and black emblem on upper board. Plain glassine jacket. Full page tissue guarded Vassos black and white images. A forceful presentation. First Thus. Cloth Backed Paper Covered Boa. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by John Vassos. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. E.P. Dutton books
604985not signed on a full length behind the camera shot of director George Sherman going over the script with actor Cornel Wilde during the filming for the 1946 film "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest." Photograph is by Joe Walter for Columbia Pictures with their rubberstamp on the back and is on single weight stock; 8" x 10". Very good 1946. Provenance: from the estate of director George Sherman. No Binding. As New/No Jacket. unknown books
1953293402Oriole Press 1953. Limited. pamphlet. fine. Small thin 8vo unpaginated pink-orange rice-paper wrappers.````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Oriole Press 1953. Limited Edition.<br/><br/> One of 50 unnumbered handset copies printed by Joseph Ishill and not for sale. Bookplate loosely attached.<br/><br/> Oriole Press unknown books
191931863New York: Boni & Liveright 1919. First Modern Library edition. Limp leather lightly rubbed. Fall 1919 publisher's catalogue. Initialled by Ira Gershwin on endpaper. <br/><br/> Boni & Liveright hardcover books
7591NY PUTNAM'S 1909. VERY GOOD. NY, PUTNAM'S 1909 unknown books
1904WRCLIT59404London: Printed for Private Circulation 1904. Printed green wrappers. Ink name wrappers split and chipped at spine; otherwise a good copy. First British and first separate edition of this essay first published as an introduction to Rennell Rodd's ROSE-LEAF AND APPLE-LEAF published in Philadelphia in 1882. One of two hundred numbered copies. MASON 614. Printed for Private Circulation unknown books
1902WRCLIT58986New York: The Sunflower Company 1902. Small octavo. Linen and boards paper label. Near fine in chipped glassine. First printing in this format. One of one thousand copies this copy not numbered as usual. The work was first printed in the NINETEENTH CENTURY July 1890 and collected in INTENTIONS 1891. The Sunflower Company hardcover books
190224098New York: Sunflower Company 1902. Limited edition. Quarter buckram over brown paper-covered boards. A very good copy. 79 pp. 16mo. Number 523 of 1000 copies printed. This essay done as a dialogue was originally published in 1891 in "Intentions." Sunflower Company hardcover books
1935WB18285London: Duckworth 1935. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated in colour and black and white by Charles Robinson. Reprint edition of this popular book of stories. Original tan cloth faded in patches. Internally a sound copy - although a previous owner has colored in a few of the black and white drawings. As far as uncalled-for-coloring in a modern book goes I've seen a lot worse. <br/><br/> Duckworth hardcover books
1908265030Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1908. Leather Bound. xxiii 394p. facsimiles frontis-portrait of Wilde by Ellis & Walery rubricated title page introduction mild musty scent first edition thus in red leather with six bands on spine filt titlestop edge gilt and marbled endpapers mild wear to covers. Thomas B. Mosher unknown books
19444265London: The Unicorn Press 1944. First edition thus. First edition thus. Beige and brown two-tone cloth. A scarce minor editiion. <br/><br/> The Unicorn Press hardcover books
190530061East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1905. 1st edition thus McKenna 109. Limp deep wine-red suede binding with yapp edges & title gilt stamped to leather square to front board. Red silk moire paste-downs. VG avg wear. 59 3 pp. Text printed in red & black. 8-3/8" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/> The Roycrofters hardcover books
1928Embry 147331E. P. Dutton 1928. First printing thus. Glue remnants from bookplate removal to front pastedown rubbing to corners and with some light soiling and marks to cloth very good in nicely crafted custom slipcase. Illus. by John Vassos. Black cloth-backed gray boards. E. P. Dutton, 1928. First printing thus. hardcover books
1956Embry 170160The New York Public Library 1956. One of 500 copies. Bookplates of The Library of the University of Texas Rare Book Collections but with no additional library markings spines very slightly toned lower corners lightly bumped near fine in very good slipcase with some neatly repaired seams. B&W photos and facsimiles. Japanese Vellum. Publication number 6 of the Arents Tobacco Collection. The New York Public Library, 1956. One of 500 copies. hardcover books
1947WRCLIT68402Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox 1947. Six highly colorful 11 x 14" lobby cards. One card with wedge-shaped closed tear in upper right margin the remaining five a bit dusty at margins some soft creases else very good or better. A good representation of the lobby cards issued to promote the U.S. release of Lajos Biró's screen adaptation of Wilde's 1895 satirical play regarding politics character finances and perception. Alexander Korda directed and Paulette Goddard Michael Wilding Diana Wynyard Hugh Williams played the leads. Cecil Beaton designed the costumes for the Technicolor production. Thea von Harbou wrote the screenplay for the previous 1935 German language adaptation starring Brigitte Helm which was released in the U.S. a decade earlier. After a long career as screenwriter for top market costume pictures Biró died in 1947. 20th Century Fox unknown books
1972WRCLIT63327New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1972. Two volumes. Small octavo. Illustrated. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition. Near fine without dust jacket as issued. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. unknown books
1955WRCLIT30243London: Peter Davies 1955. Cloth spine gilt. First edition. Small bookplate spine gilding a bit rubbed else near fine in a lightly worn dust jacket with a soft crease to the lower panel. Peter Davies hardcover books
7634BOSTON LITTLE 1936. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. BOSTON, LITTLE, 1936 unknown books
1871WRCLIT23857Savannah: Georgia Historical Society 1871. 70pp. Gilt decorated cloth a.e.g. Light spotting to cloth else very good and bright. First edition in book form. A full examination of the question of whether Mr. Wilde's poetic products were original. Georgia Historical Society hardcover books