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20071-0811857999Chronicle Books Llc 2007. Hardcover. New. hardback/cd edition. 223 pages. 11.00x8.25x1.00 inches. Chronicle Books Llc hardcover
19270035327Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux 1927. First Thus. Softcover Paperback. Very Good Condition. 29cm x 23cm. 26 xliv 2 pages 9 colour plates 6 colour illustrations in the text. Illustrated wrappers glassine jacket papered folder no slipcase. Text is in French. French edition of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated with 15 coloured copper engravings by Jean-Georges Cornelius. One of 225 numbered copies. Text is in French. Near Fine Condition in Fair folder. Lacking the slipcase. The folder split at the upper joint but still holding by the thread. The glassine jacket and book with only very minor general wear. Category: Poetry; Foreign Language::French; French Language; Art & Design. Inventory No: 0035327. BZDB407 Poetry; Foreign Language::French; French Language; Art & Design. Unbranded Oscar Wilde; G. Cornelius La Ballade de la Geole de Reading Javal et Bourdeaux paperback
195311804LEHNING WALTER 1953. 1. softcover. LEHNING, WALTER paperback
2002233782002 2 dessins aux Crayons gras et mine de plomb sur carton, annotations manuscrites de l'artiste autour du dessin et sous le dessin, 2002, 30.7 x 21.5 cm. (format à vue), 40 x 58 cm. (format du carton) et 30.7 x 21 cm. (format à vue), 40 x 58 cm. (format du carton).
192711779Paris, Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. 1 vol. in-4. En feuilles, couvertures grises imprimées et rempliées, sous chemise et étui imprimé.
1909062411Toronto / Boston: The Musson Book Company / John W. Luce & Co. 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 14 volume set. A little shelf wear to orange cloth hardcovers. Paper spine labels are mostly intact. Otherwise these are tight unmarked volumes. Not dated except volume 1 1909 and volume 6 1908. The Musson Book Company / John W. Luce & Co. Hardcover
186947911[No place], 1869. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers, no backstrip. Offprint from the ""Philosophical Magazine"", January 1869. With authors presentation inscription to front wrapper: ""With the author's Compliments."". Fine and clean. 9 pp.
186947911No place 1869. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers no backstrip. Offprint from the "Philosophical Magazine" January 1869. With authors presentation inscription to front wrapper: "With the author's Compliments.". Fine and clean. 9 pp. <br/><br/><em>Offprint issue with author's presentation insciption to front wrapper of Wilde's paper on how to control and render the magneto-electri current which nearly led to the discovery of the principle of self-excitation. This was however achieved by other inventors first notably Charles Wheatstone and the Siemens brothers."In 1856 Wilde established a business in Manchester as an electric-telegraph and lightning-conductor engineer and spent some years on the development of a magneto-electric alphabetic telegraph which was demonstrated at the international exhibition in London in 1862. In December 1863 he patented a twin-armature machine in which a magneto-electric generator provided excitation current for the field winding of another generator. These machines were made in quantity by Wilde & Co. but in use they had the disadvantage of becoming very hot. In 1867 Described in the present paper. he patented an entirely different type of multipolar machine which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting. Among his other patents was one in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing.". Oxford DNB. Henry Wilde 1833 - 1919 was a wealthy individual from Manchester England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine or self-energising dynamo an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and in fact discovered independently. At any rate Wilde was the first to publish his paper was communicated to the Royal Society by Michael Faraday in 1866. The self-energising dynamo replaces the permanent magnets of previous designs with electro-magnets and in so doing achieved an enormous increase in power. The machine was considered remarkable at the time especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt. </em> unknown
39285later Edition of the First Edition 7th printing of June 1899 31 pages original hardcover quarter vellum with mustard boards Leonard Smithers very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe France after his release from Reading Gaol pronounced "redding jail" on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment on Tuesday 7 July 1896 a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife Laura Ellen earlier that year at Clewer near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers on February 13 1898 under the name C.3.3. which stood for cell block C landing 3 cell 3. This ensured that Wilde's name by then notorious did not appear on the poem's front cover. It was not commonly known until the 7th printing in June 1899 that C.3.3. was actually Wilde. The first edition of 800 copies sold out within a week and Smithers announced that a second edition would be ready within another week; that was printed on February 24th in 1000 copies which also sold well. A third edition of 99 numbered copies "signed by the author" was printed on March 4th on the same day a fourth edition of 1200 ordinary copies was printed. A fifth edition of a 1000 copies was printed on March 17th and a sixth edition was printed in 1000 copies on May 21st 1898. So far the book's title page had identified the author only as C.3.3. although many reviewers and of course those who bought the numbered and autographed third edition copies knew that Wilde was the author but the seventh edition printed on June 23 1899 actually revealed the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets below the C.3.3. hardcover
1886d2793bLondon: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Eps darkened. Fold-out repaired with archive tape. 1886. First Edition. Blue hardback boards with cream vellum spine. 320mm x 240mm 13" x 9". vi 160pp plates. 9 plates 6 b/w 3 sepia 1 fold-out. With Glasgow Arts Club bookplate. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Kegan Paul, Trench & Co hardcover
192787871New York: Wm.H.Wise & Co 1927. Connoisseurs Edition. Hardcover. near fine/varies per volume. Volume 1: Poems Vol.2::Vera and Other Early Plays Vol. 3: The Happy Prince and other Fairy Tales intro by Yeats. Vol. 4:The Picture of Dorian Gray. Vol.5: Intentions. Vol;.6: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories.Vol. 7: Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance. Vol. 8: The Importance of Being Earnest. An Ideal Husband Vol. 9: Salome and Other Plays.Vol. 10: The Soul of Man under Socialism and Other Essays. Vol. 11: De Profundis Lectures and Essays. Vol. 12: Criticisms and Reviews.:. !2 Volume Set. Octavo.22 cm x 14 cm.Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines.All of these volumes in dust jackets.Jackets vary in condition. About half of the dust jackets have chipping some with loss at spines. About half of these are in very nice condition with no loss or chipping. Scarce in the original dust jackets. Wm.H.Wise & Co hardcover
1911105302Edinburgh Society 1911. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. #42/480cc. Fourteen volumes. Beige buckram binding. The Magdalen edition. Each volume has a color frontispiece. Contains the volumes: A Woman of No Importance; The Duchess of Padua; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Salome a Florentine Tragedy; A House of Pomegranates; An Ideal Husband; Poems; Intentions of Soul and Man; De Profundis; Lady Windemere's Fan & The Importance of Being Ernest; Lord Arthur Savil'es Crime; Reviews Vol. 1 & 2: and Miscellaneous. Some spine labels a little chipped. Edinburgh Society hardcover
189933071New York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. Second American Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; publisher's two-toned cloth white over blue upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt unadorned spine; 844pp. Some minor shelf wear white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text old ink spot affecting first few leaves else interior fine. Very Good and sound overall. Often considered to be the first American edition this imprint is actually preceded by the Brentano's ca. 1898 edition. This edition was published in two states one in which the text appears on rectos only the second including this copy printed on rectos and versos: "Both editions that printed on one side and that printed on both sides are from the same type. It is therefore clear that they are not.two independent editions but the one-side issue constitutes merely a kind of de-luxe variety while the two-sided is a cheaper popular version of the same edition" HORODISCH pp. 76-77. <br/><br/>Issued by Benjamin R. Tucker the noted anarchist publisher and editor of the journal Liberty in which Tucker published the essay "The Criminal Jailers of Oscar Wilde" in 1895. Tucker and Emma Goldman were two of the few Americans to publicly defend Wilde during his trial George Haggerty Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures 2013 p. 52. Benj. R. Tucker unknown books
1898183426London: Murdoch & Co 1898. Pamphlet. 16p. first separate appearance plain printed softbound stapled as issued in textured buff wraps. Covers are split along the spinefold and detached and show mild dust- and handling-soil; the single staple is rusted without significant migration. Text is clean except for earlier booksellers' notes on titlepage. As is; should be quite amenable to restoration. This letter originally appeared in "The Daily Chronicle" on May 28 1897 and is here reprinted with an additional publisher's note; Wilde's name appears at the end of the letter not in the titling. Murdoch & Co unknown books
1898WRCLIT69507London: Murdoch & Company 1898. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Early cellotape backing along wrapper spine a bit dusty otherwise about very good. First printing in booklet form of Wilde's letter about the Warder Martin case first published in THE DAILY CHRONICLE on 28 May 1897 - Martin had been dismissed as warder at Reading Prison for having shown kindness and giving food to a hungry child prisoner. The publisher included a prefatory note to this printing of the text seeking relief and assistance for Martin who was at that time still unemployed. The text was later reprinted with similar documents in DE PROFUNDIS. MASON/MILLARD 26. Murdoch & Company unknown books
1907D5041New York et al: Nottingham Society 1907. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's pale grey cloth paper spine labels top edge gilt; each volume with a frontispiece. Number 18 from a deluxe limited edition of 1000 copies. Small bump at fore-edge of Volume 1 otherwise all volumes just a little dust-soiled and gently rubbed at spine tips. An excellent working set. Please note that these heavy volumes will likely require additional shipping charges. <br/><br/> Nottingham Society hardcover books
1912004982London: John Lane 1912. Handsomely bound in period 3/4 Red Levant and Marbled Boards gilt titles at spine top edge gilt ribbon marker with 16 black and white plates by Aubrey Beardsley. A Fine and quite lovely copy of this classic Oscar Wilde play. . First EditionThus. 3/4 Levant and Marbled Boards. Fine. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Lane Hardcover books
189915144JNew York: Benj. R. Tucker 1899. First American Edition. Three pirated editions of Wilde’s classic poem were issued in America in 1899 the Tucker edition. precedes the other two and is the True First American Edition. Issued in paper wrappers and cloth this copy is the rare hardbound state. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with white cloth spine. Hinges cracked. Some minor foxing to the preliminaries at little darkening at spine very good. Rare. Benj. R. Tucker hardcover books
1912259334London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blue boards with red label printed in black on upper cover. Exceptionally fine copy IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED DUST JACKET with slight wear. First edition with Ross's Preface. x 99 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mason 370 Arthur L. Humphreys unknown books
18946710New York: R. F. Fenno & Company 1894. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo 4 1/2" x 7 3/8" stiff pictorial wraps 22 pages; half title with date of 1894; original glassine dust jacket and original box with printed label: "The Sphinx. Wilde Nippon Booklets." First edition printed in America. Pictorial front wrapper with color rural scene with Mt. Fiji in the background. Book and dust jacket are very good; box has a few light stains but is intact. <br/><br/> R. F. Fenno & Company hardcover books
19383674London/Paris: Limited Editions Club 1938. Limited to 1500 numbered copies this being copy no. 834. With Derain: Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Derain this being copy no. 834. Two quarto volumes 10 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. Publisher's full terra cotta cloth with gilt decoration Beardsley and black printed wrappers Derain. The Derain volume in original mylar as issued. A fine set. Housed in the publisher's red cardboard slipcase a little worn at extremities. Beardsley: 10 11-105 3 pp; Sixteen black and white illustrations of which twelve are full-page. Derain: 8 9-71 1 1 limitation 1 blank. Ten inserted color plates on black paper.<br/><br/>When Salomé was first published in February 1893 the Pall Mall Budget magazine asked Beardsley for a drawing in response. They rejected the macabre fantastic image he based around the play's last scene in which Salomé embraces the severed head of John the Baptist. J'ai Baisé Ta Bouche Iokanaan. Here it is redrawn as the Climax without the text. In April however an art publication The Studio ran it as part of its first edition. Wilde saw the drawing pre- publication and liked it; in March he inscribed a copy of the earlier printing of the book "March '93. For Aubrey. For the only artist who besides myself knows what the Dance of the Seven Veils is and can see that invisible dance."<br/><br/>Illustrator Aubrey Vincent Beardsley 21 August 1872 - 16 March 1898 was an English artist and author. At the age of nineteen he achieved notable and lasting acclaim for his illustrations in the Dent edition of Malory's Le Morte Darthur in 1892. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. In 1894 Beardsley became the art editor of The Yellow Book under the general editorship of Oscar Wilde but with his advancing tuberculosis and Wilde's arrest - that put an end to that satirical periodical. His drawings in black ink influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts emphasized the grotesque the decadent and the erotic. Although in increasingly poor health Beardsley continued to produce illustrations including those in The Savoy The Rape of the Lock and The Lysistrata. Aubrey Beardsley died from tuberculosis at the very young age of 25 on the 16th March 1898.<br/><br/>Illustrator André Derain 1880-1954 was a French artist painter sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Limited Editions Club unknown books
36126New York: Brentano's nd. 1st edition US. Hardcover. King Jessie M. 1st ptg. 4to full red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration top edge gilt. lllustrated with 16 tipped-in color plates color title page and decorated endpapers by Jessie M. King. One of King's very first books at an affordable price often seen at the other side of $1000. Light random foxing not affecting the color plates spine gilt darkened top corner bumped a handsome copy of an uncommon edition. Brentano's hardcover
191573681London:: Methuen and Coy. Ltd. 1915. First edition illustrated by Jessie King. rebound in half blue morocco marbled sides t.e.g. . The illustrated front endsheet preserved and laid down at front; corners of several of the tipped-in plates creased; tiny marginal wormhole affects a couple of leaves; light foxing; ink ownership signature to half-title page. . 4to. With Sixteen Illustrations by Jessie M. King. Methuen and Coy., Ltd., unknown
189928234London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. A limited printing of the first edition 1000. <br /> <br /> In 1996 critic Bindon Russell wrote in "The Wildean" that "An Ideal Husband" is "the most autobiographical of Wilde's plays mirroring as it does his own situation of a double life and an incipient scandal with the emergence of terrible secrets. Whilst Lord Goring is a character with much of Wilde's own wit insight and compassion Gertrude Chiltern can be seen as a portrait of Constance Wilde." <br /> <br /> 8vo 213pp brown-red linen over boards gilt stamped decoration on front cover and spine; gilt titles on spine. Spine rebacked with the original spine laid down. With bookplates of Herschel V. Jones and Alfred and Sara Bernheim. Internally clean some pages uncut. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover
1907D5041New York et al: Nottingham Society 1907. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's pale grey cloth paper spine labels top edge gilt; each volume with a frontispiece. Number 18 from a deluxe limited edition of 1000 copies. Small bump at fore-edge of Volume 1 otherwise all volumes just a little dust-soiled and gently rubbed at spine tips. An excellent working set. Please note that these heavy volumes will likely require additional shipping charges. <br/><br/> Nottingham Society hardcover
