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1906140212Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. First edition of Wilde's report on his lecture tour throughout America in 1882. Octavo original stiff paper wrappers. One of fifty numbered copies this is number 24. Very good with the majority of the original dust jacket. 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. Keystone Press unknown
189140615New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1891. First American Edition. Octavo pink cloth stamped in yellow. Of a total of 1500 copies printed 900 were for sale in the UK and 600 were bound with the Dodd Mead and Company title page. Very Good condition spine darkened time toned paper. No dust jacket. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
190545608London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1905. Softcover. g to vg. Duodecimo. 222pp. Bound in a beautiful period grey-brown morocco binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover with raised bands and gilt stamped motifs and lettering on a red label on the spine. Top edge of the book block in gilt. Gilt dentelles and decorative pattered endpapers. The binding was created by acclaimed London-based firm Sangorski & Sutcliffe for sale in the book department of the famous Chicago department store Marshall Field & Company. Binder's ink stamp on the verso of the front endpaper. <br /> <br /> Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review" by permission of Messrs Chapman & Hall. Publication in the Belles Lettres series of Humphreys's Royal Library. Contains epigrams and aphorisms and the essay "The Soul of Man" a reprint of the essay originally published with the title "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Mason # 633.<br /> <br /> Binding with light rubbing to extremities including head and tail of spine as well as raised bands. Small stain on the front cover. Covers sunned along the edges. Interior with some smudging to the half-title. Binding in very good- interior in near fine condition overall. Arthur L. Humphreys unknown
1928BOOKS005552INew York: Macy/Masius: Vanguard 1928. 1st . Hardcover. Good. Lynd Ward. Near fine in restored dust jacket. <br/> <br/> Macy/Masius: Vanguard hardcover
1898004339London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Wilde used his prisoner's number as his nom de plume for the early printings. This is a Very Good copy of the "Fourth Edition" Printing. Tan and cream-coloured binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 31 pages text printed only on the recto. There is a contemporary 22 May 1898 previous-owner signature only three letters on the front free endpaper. There is a tiny bookseller label Brentano's Paris on the rear paste-down. The paste-downs and free endpapers are typically tanned. The corners are bumped; surfaces soiled; and there is a crease on the rear cover. The spine has darkened but the lettering remains readable. Within this rather used-looking exterior the textblock is wonderfully fresh and bright. A solid copy of this rare edition. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leonard Smithers Hardcover
192941921New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1929. 1/200. Good. John Vassos. 102pp. Small quarto 24 cm 1/2 black leather over gray illustrated boards. Title gilt stamped on backstrip. Bright pink endsheets. Heavy rubbing to extremities corners exposed 1" loss to spine at head toning and light wear to boards; hinges cracked but holding ink name on front pastedown light spotting to endpapers light foxing to half-title and rear flyleaf else interior is clean and lightly toned. Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This is the third Wilde work illustrated by 1930s book illustrator and industrial designer John Vassos. This edition was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies this is copy 165. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. E.P. Dutton & Company unknown
1890972Boston: Roberts Brothers 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood Very Good condition with water marks and soiling to original gray cloth cover. Interior text as new no markings binding tight Roberts Brothers hardcover
1993BN647361993. 1993. 978E12 <br/><br/> unknown
1980mon0000038432Heron Books London 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1948 edition illustrated by Arthur WRagg. Ex-library book usual markings. Rebound by library. Heron Books London hardcover
88705Stockholm 1741. 4:o. 4 52 544 55 1 s. 3 utvikbara tryckta tabeller. Ã…terkommande lätt fuktrand i övre marginal. Sammanhäftad med bihanget: WILDE Jacob. De praejudiciis transmarinis circa jura quae dicuntus regalia & majestatica cavendis propempticum commercii literarii argumentum illustrssimo politissimoque juveni dn Nicaolao Adamo comiti de Bielcke ab alma Lundinensi ad Upsalensem transeunti datum. Stockholm Typographia R. Historiographi 1738. 4:o. 4 62 2 s. Fläckig inledningsvis och det andra bladet med reva och ett litet hÃ¥l. Häftade oskurna och ouppsprättade i grÃ¥pappomslag. Warmholtz 2523 not & 6745. Sonen Anders Wildes latinska översättning av faderns förberedelse eller inledning till Pufendorfs svenska historia. Endast första delen översattes till latin men utökades varför denna latinska enligt Warmholtz är att föredra framför den svenska. Den svenska upplagans första del utkom 1738 och dess andra som utgavs av Anders Wilde 1743. Här med det 1738 separat tryckta â€De praejudiciis†som i titeln utlovas som bilaga. unknown
191947472Hannover: Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt 1919. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 76/100. Signed and numbered by the artist on colophon. Quarto. Original half vellum over decorative handmade paper. Frontispiece. Second German translation of "The Priest and the Acolyte" by E. Sander with illustrations by Ernst Schütte. <br /> This short story was first published with the German translation of Wilde's "Teleny" the homoerotic story of the French dandy Camille and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. <br /> <br /> This work was originally credited to Oscar Wilde however the presumed author is John Francis Bloxam. In his trial against Queensberry Wilde contested the authorship and deemed the story "tasteless." This work contains two stunning lithographically reproduced Art Nouveau images of Ernst Schütte's work. Text in German. Spine with some light wear small chips and closed tears. Borads slightly bent outwards. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Der Zweemann Verlag Robert Goldschmidt hardcover
19236000868NY: Putnam 1923. Bound in grey boards with blue cloth spine. Dustwrapper shows a bit of darkening to spine and light chipping to bottom end. Top chip 1/3" but not affecting any text. Overall in well above average condition. This is the true first U.S. edition of this title in the original dustwrapper. A three act play with an introductory note and a letter to "Mrs. Chan Toon". This copy is listed as the Second Edition F'cap 8vo . 1923" title page verso; originally published in Great Britain in a limited edition in 1922 but it is indeed the first U.S. edition. Scarce in the dustwrapper and in this protected condition. 58 pp. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good . Putnam Hardcover
1891503897New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1891. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition using the English sheets see Mason 343: "Of the English edition. . 600 copies were printed for America. Octavo. 258pp. Pinkish-red cloth stamped in yellow. Spine is slightly faded else a nice very near fine copy. Scarce. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1977116845Secaucus : Chartwell Books 1977. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : ill. chiefly col. ports. 1 col. ; 35 cm. Subjects: Hell's Angels. Motorcyclists. Gangs. Secaucus : Chartwell Books hardcover
1887012823Milano: Sonzogno 1887 1895 18. Prima edizione italiana delle poesie di Whitman; First Italian Editions. In un volume dimensioni 11x17 cm che contiene anche a seguire: George Eliot: LE TRIBOLAZIONI DEL REVERENDO AMOS BARTON. Prefazione di Gaetano Negri. Oscar Wilde: RACCONTI. Traduzione e prefazione di Francesco Stocchetti. G.B. Shaw: IL DISCEPOLO DEL DIAVOLO. -In tutti i casi prime edizioni italiane di quelle opere edite da Sonzogno nella Biblioteca Universale. - Tutte le opere hanno alla pagina di titolo firma e data di possesso di Davide Casella Napoli. - I due CANTI SCELTI DI WHITMAN pur avendo lo stesso titolo e curatore sono in realtà due diverse serie che si completano come spiega il curatore nell'avvertenza alla seconda raccolta e rappresentano la prima edizione delle poesie pubblicate nel 1887 e otto anni dopo nel 1895. Alla prima raccolta all'ultima pagina 103-04 sono stati tagliati i margini superiore e inferiore dove il possessore aveva scritto alcune note di commento; ma il taglio non tocca la stampa. -Legatura degli anni Venti in tela marrone con una scritta in oro al dorso: AUTORI INGLESI.- Di notevole rarità queste prime edizioni italiane riunite. Sonzogno unknown
1910029883UK: Charles Carrington 1910. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good /No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. New Edition 1910. Paris Edition. 1st printing in this uniform edition. Book is very good with bright. Contents good. Page edges rough cut and age toned. Tape ghosting marks to endpapers. A bright example. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18958 <br/> <br/> Charles Carrington hardcover
1949977Q25London and Glasgow : Collins 1949 . Leather. Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A sumptuous Sangorski & Sutcliffe bound copy of the collected works of Oscar Wilde comprising his much celebrated novels plays poetry and other writings. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half crushed morocco with cloth boards. The second impression of this "New Collected Edition" published by Collins. An anthology of the collected works of Oscar Wilde including his poetry plays essays and stories. Notable mentions include 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' 'The Importance of Being Earnest' 'The Sphinx' The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and more. Edited and with an introduction by G. F. Maine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the author from a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half crushed morocco with cloth boards. Externally excellent with a few light marks to boards and spine. Slight fading to spine as is common with calf of this colour. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just one or two spots to the fore edge. Near Fine Collins hardcover
1938WILDEINT001912Random House New York. 1938. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 150 pages. A three-act play whose subject-matter made it ineligible for performance in the U.K. anywhere but in theatre clubs with a paying membership. This ensured hoi polloi remained morally unpolluted. Robert Morley took the title role in the U.K. and in the hugely successful run in New York. This cemented his reputation as a stage actor.Inscribed by Robert Morley on the title-page: ''Best wishes - Robert Morley''. The printed dedication is to him and Norman Marshall who produced the play in New York. On the front free endpaper is the ownership signature of H�l�ne Champlain a noted bookdealer and collector who ran the bookshop at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for more than twenty years in middle of the 20th century.Head and tail of spine slightly scuffed. Near fine in very good dustwrapper darkened at the spine and with a chip and a few nicks. Random House, New York. unknown
59353Vanity Fair May 24 1884. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. Framed and glazed in gilt moulding and with dark green mountboard. Light wrinkling generally very good. Vanity Fair, May 24, 1884. unknown
1904WILDEOSC001869Privately printed London. 1904. First edition. Octavo. 30 pages. Sewn grey wrappers printed in blue. First separate printing of Wilde's introduction to ''Rose-Leaf and Apple-Leaf'' a book of poems by Rennell Rodd published in Philadelphia in 1882. One of 200 numbered copies.Near fine. Housed in a cloth chemise which has the armorial bookplate of noted collector Oliver Brett Third Viscount Esher and also the later nameplate of Wildean J.O. Edwards. Privately printed, London. hardcover
19053222London: Methuen and Co 1905. Penned by Wilde while he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol for two years. Published posthumously. First printing with the rear catalogue dated February 1905. This book was the personal copy of noted Cambridge librarian Augustus Theodore Bartholomew with his name printed and ex libris affixed to front end papers. A good copy with a unique association. Lacking a dust jacket though it likely never included one. <br /> The letter written by Wilde from Reading Goal to Lord Alfred Douglas. Methuen and Co unknown
SONG0198119607Oxford University Press 0000-00-00. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 5.75x1.00x8.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
192227887Leipzig: Hesse & Becker 1922. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mustard cloth stamped in brown. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. Minor toning of textblock. Fine in glassine dust wrapper. First edition of this selection. Portrait frontispiece. 176 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Poems by the prolific German-born author George Sylvester Viereck 1884-1962 who first gained renown for The House of the Vampire and Nineveh and other Poems both 1907 which showed the strong influence of Oscar Wilde. Viereck became notorious for his pro-German propaganda during the first world war and later for his pro-Nazi propaganda before and during the second world war for which he was imprisoned. <br /> This is a German-language selection of his early verse including Nineveh 1907 with some pieces translated by other hands. Viereck's free German translation "frei verdeutscht" of The Ballad of Reading Gaol appears here at pages 151-175; his English translation of the Deutschlandslied "Deutschland Deutschland Land of All Lands" which appears here on p. 176 remained standard for many years.<br /> <br /> Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Hesse & Becker unknown
1882List3658Boston Massachusetts: W. A. Evans & Bro 1882. Folio illustrated wraps. Pages detached from each other small chip to corner images and music fine remains good to very good and quite attractive. Good to very good. A visually striking example of Oscar Wilde–related ephemera issued during the height of the writer’s American lecture tour of 1882. Though lacking a printed date the title strongly suggests publication in connection with Wilde’s appearance at the Boston Music Hall on January 31 1882 where he delivered his lecture “The English Renaissance†as part of his widely publicized tour across the United States. Contemporary accounts describe the event as a notable cultural moment including the presence of Harvard students dressed in exaggerated aesthetic costume who occupied the front rows of the hall reflecting both the fascination with and satirical reception of Wilde’s aesthetic persona.1<br /> <br /> The lithographic cover prominently depicts a figure carrying an oversized sunflower an image closely associated with Wilde and the broader Aesthetic Movement. Such illustrated sheet music functioned not only as musical publications but also as collectible artifacts capitalizing on the figure of Wilde. Over the course of several months he traveled widely across the United States and Canada delivering lectures on art decoration and cultural taste and quickly became a subject of both admiration and parody in the American press. Although he never returned for a comparable national tour Wilde maintained a lasting connection to American audiences. We know of a variant edition of the Evans imprint with a different illustration as well as a different version published in Boston by Ditson the same year. <br /> <br /> OCLC 500491189 specifying this edition with the large sunflower illustration locating five copies. <br /> <br /> 1 “Freshmen at Oscar Wilde’s Lecture†The Harvard Crimson February 1 1882. W. A. Evans & Bro unknown
193715980JNew York: Collier’s Magazine April 10 1937. This magazine issue contains the short stories “Stage To Lordsburg†and “Bringing Up Baby†both of which were adapted into the classic American films “Stagecoach†directed by John Ford and “Bringing Up Baby†directed by Howard Hawks. We cannot recall ever seeing the sources of two of the biggest hits of Hollywood’s Golden Age contained in a single issue of the same magazine. A fresh near fine copy of this more than 70 year-old magazine showing only the slightest trace of use. Collier’s Magazine unknown
