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1906962P22London; New York: John Lane the Bodley Head 1906. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 6.5" by 5". Aubrey Beardsley. The first U.K. trade edition of Oscar Wilde's tragic play about Salome and John the Baptist in the original dust wrapper. The first U.K. trade edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Aubrey Beardsley.'Salome' is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde depicting Salome's attempted seduction of John the Baptist.Beardsley was a leading illustrator of the late twentieth century beginning a promising career was a Modern Style artist before his early death at the age of 25. He was largely influenced by Japanese woodcuts and depicted scenes of the erotic grotesque and decadent.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's paper covered boards in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Light age-toning and marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with small chips to the head and tail of the spine and a few small closed tears. Spine is sunned. Handling marks to the wraps. Tidemark to the head of the rear wrap and spine and tail of the front wrap. One tape repair to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a few scattered spots and handling marks. Very Good Indeed John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
1928191171Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse. 1928. the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from a total edition of 113 copies. Alastair's illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Wilde's short story was first published in the 1891 collection House of Pomegranates. Quarto. Frontispiece and 8 plates printed in black and brown with tissue guards illustrations in the text. Title and page numbers printed in red. Original cream wrappers front cover lettered and ruled in black and red rear cover with red central vignette and black rule border edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in original silver paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase additionally housed in custom black cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason. Minor wear to spine ends couple spots to covers and contents near-fine; glassine with long split at front fold other shorter tears chemise and slipcase with rubbing and wear with partial splits and repairs to chemise inner hinges very good. Minkoff A13a. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
19136026<p><strong>First edition of this translation. First separate Russian edition of Wilde's 'Aphorisms'.</strong></p><p>The first Russian translation of Wilde's aphorisms was published in 1905 the same year as the original edition. It was prepared by Ekaterina Andreeva the second wife of the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. In 1908 Wilde's aphorisms were published in the magazine '<em>Novyi zhurnal literatury iskusstva I nauki'</em> 'New Journal of Literature Art and Science'; #1–4. The following year they were included in Wilde's 'Collection of Works' vol. 7. Additionally another translation of the aphorisms was issued in the magazine '<em>Novoe slovo</em>" 'New Word'. <br />This translation was made by a military officer and duke <strong>Dmitriy Viazemskii</strong> 1884–1917 who was also a vowel of the St. Petersburg City Duma. This was likely Viazemskii's only experience with translation. Unfortunately he met a tragic end when he was killed by a stray bullet during the February Revolution.</p><p>Roznatovskaia. # 479 mistakenly dated — 1912; described not de visu.</p><p><strong>Very rare edition.</strong> We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in the USA or European libraries via OCLC.</p> [tip. ‘Sirius’] hardcover
1913033333<p>London : Duckworth & Co 1913 A very good copy of the limited edition with tipped-in frontispiece and 11 further tipped-in plates by Charles Robinson. This copy is number 244 of 260 copies of which 250 were for sale and is signed by him. It has been rebound in a light tan half leather binding with cream cloth sides. The decorative parchment from the front board of the original binding which includes the gilt titles and decoration has been relaid on the new front board. There is a new title label on the spine. The binding is in fine clean condition. The original decorative endpapers have been retained with an old pencil signature at the top of the front pastedown. Contents: decorative preliminary page; decorative half title with limited edition note and signature to verso; frontispiece with guard; title; dedication; plate listing; text with decorative half titles to each story and 11 further tipped in plates. The contents are very clean with the occasional light mark or spot eg small top edge stain on tissue guard to plate at p 20; some light spotting to top of tissue guard to plate at page 122 with some offsetting to the top margin of p122; 3 small marks across bottom margin of pp 128/129. A couple of plates have light creases to the tissue guards. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images to further assess condition.</p> Duckworth & Co hardcover
1915WILDEOSC010616Methuen London. 1915. First edition with these illustrations. Quarto. pp vi 162. 16 tipped-in colour plates title-page black-and-white uncials endpapers and cover design by Jessie M. King. Blue cloth decorated in orange. Top edge gilt. Wilde's second collection of fairy tales which he said were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". Free endpapers tanned. Some insect damage to fore-edge of rear free endpaper not affecting any other part of the book. A bit of sporadic foxing. Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. Methuen, London. hardcover
1948192336London: William Hodge and Company Limited 1948. The finest speech of an accused man since that of Paul before King Herod Agrippa First edition number 30 of 50 copies signed by Hyde and Humphreys. Hyde co-wrote the screenplay for the 1960 film of the same name directed by Ken Hughes. A barrister and politician as well as an author Hyde was a vocal supporter of the decriminalization of homosexuality. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece after Toulouse-Lautrec. Original red morocco-grained leatherette spine lettered in gilt marbled endpapers red edges orange silk bookmarker. Former ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Spine and lower board edges a little rubbed upper board corners bumped book block cracked at pp. 382-383: a very good copy. hardcover
19091507209Lamb 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 20.2cm a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books number 338 of 1000 numbered sets with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.4800pp. with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde Speranza; Essays Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley. Lamb hardcover books
1923D4433Munich: O. C. Recht 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Full vellum gilt-stamped lettering in brown morocco spine label; with 60 engravings by Rudolf Schlichter each one signed by the artist. Fine in slipcase. <br/><br/>Rudolf Schlichter was one of the most important figures of the Neue Sachlichkeit New Objectivity movement a prolific illustrator and participant in Dada exhibitions. His work was seized by the Nazis as "degenerate art" and largely unseen for decades. He began exhibiting again at the war's end. O. C. Recht hardcover books
19091507209Lamb 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 20.2cm a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books number 338 of 1000 numbered sets with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.4800pp. with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde Speranza; Essays Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley. Lamb hardcover
19086020<p><strong>First and only edition of this translation. First Russian edition of '<em>De Profundis</em>' as a separate book.</strong></p><p>The first Russian translation of Wilde's '<em>De Profundis'</em> appeared in 1905 which was the same year as the original text. It was translated by Ekaterina Andreeva who happened to be the second spouse of the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont. A portion of her translation was published in the symbolist magazine '<em>Vesy'</em> #3 and it was followed by the release of a separate book. The following year an anonymous translation was released as the third volume of Wilde's complete works but it was based on Andreeva's translation which was edited for the publication. <br />In 1908 there were two Russian translations of '<em>De Profundis'</em> that came out: this edition and extracts in the magazine 'Vesy' by Wilde's foremost translator the journalist and secretary of 'Vesy' named Mikhail Likiardopulo who had familiarity with Alfred Douglas and Robert Ross separate edition appeared in 1909. <br />It is possible that this translation was done by <strong>Princess Alexandra Obolenskaia</strong> in girlhood Apraksina; 1852–1943 who was a close friend of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and her children. Obolenskaia maintained a correspondence with Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and other members of Romanov's family. After the Russian Revolution Obolenskaia left Russia and eventually passed away in Paris. Given the difficulty of obtaining '<em>De Profundis'</em> during that time and the complexity of the text it is unlikely that the translation was made by someone else. <br />It is also known that Obolenskaia prepared two more translations: '<em>The Garden of Allah'</em> 1914 and '<em>Egypt and Its Monuments'</em> 1909 both written by English journalist and novelist Robert Hichens. <br />What's intriguing about '<em>De Profundis'</em> is that the majority of its translations into Russian were done by female translators. These include Andreeva Obolenskaia Maria Simonovich Odessa 1909 and Rita Rait-Kovaleva who worked with her daughter Margarita 1976; first translation from the complete version issued in 1962.</p><p>Roznatovskaia No 490.</p><p><strong>Rare edition.</strong> OCLC locates only one copy of this edition: in the Stanford University Library.</p> Parovaia skoropechatnia M.M. Gutzatsa hardcover
199468135Edition Cantz. New. 1994. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 160 pp. With 159 ills. 31 x 25 cm. Description: "Prefaced with a biographical text and a critical evaluation of the vision of nature and art informing Blossfeldt's distinctive documentary images this catalogue features fine reproductions of more than 140 works by the noted German photographer 1865-1932 whose oeuvre consists exclusively of striking close-up studies of plant forms intended to illuminate the basic structures he considered fundamental to nature art and architecture." -- with a bonus offer--; 0.75 x 12 x 9.75 Inches . Edition Cantz hardcover
194938393London: The Phaidon Press Ltd. As New. 1949. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - 22 page introduction followed by 176 plates and the catalogue of the 1207 works in the collection. Among the artists represented: Michelangelo Gaddi Schiavone Bandinelli and many others. -- with a bonus offer-- . The Phaidon Press Ltd. hardcover
199475575Museum; Et Al. New. 1994. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and Dutch. 358 pp. With 143 ills. 61 col. . 28 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum; Et Al paperback
198473981Museum. As New. 1984. Paperback. 0932900089 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- 72 pp. With 71 ills. 23 x 23 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
196328170New York: Viking Press. As New. 1963. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - .Some creasing to pages and covers especially at corners; some abrading to covers. -- with a bonus offer-- . Viking Press paperback
1908289572Portland: Mosher 1908. hardcover. fine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. xxiv 394 15 pages. Short square 8vo rebound in full cream morocco floral design from the original cover laid in on both covers brown spine labels raised bands. Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1908. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Limited Edition. One of only 25 copies printed on Japan vellum numbered and signed by the publisher.<br/><br/> Mosher unknown books
1921ST12330bWestminster: Beaumont Press 1921-22. FIRST EDITIONS. EACH ONE OF 75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM OF THE EDITION DE LUXE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ARTIST of a total of 475 copies. 222 x 152 mm. 8 3/4 x 6". Two separately issued but companion volumes. <br/> Original vellum-backed decorative paper boards. Reading with vignette on title in orange and green two plates in the same colors one facsimile of writing in text device on final page stylized illustration of a tree on front and rear endpapers; "Berneval" with woodcuts of Naples and Paris printed in blue on the front and rear endpapers two-color title page woodcut one plate a facsimile of a Wilde letter and printer's woodcut device; our special deluxe version WITH THREE ADDITIONAL WOODCUTS at the back of each volume all the woodcuts as well as the cover design by Randolph Schwabe. Ransom p. 211; Tomkinson p. 17. ◆Berneval spine just a bit darkened otherwise FINE UNWORN COPIES that have obviously been little used as they open stiffly and are immaculate inside and out.<br/> <br/> Here "After Berneval" is offered with "After Reading" its earlier companion volume both of them in their deluxe form on Japanese vellum and including an extra suite of the illustrations. "Reading" comprises a set of letters also written to Ross by Wilde during the summer of 1897 after having just been released from two years' imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The preface to its sequel "After Berneval" says that the earlier collection "was unprocurable almost as soon as it was published." The letters in these volumes tell the story of a tragic literary figure who fell from a precipitous height. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 was born and raised in Ireland studied classics at Trinity College Dublin and at Magdalen College Oxford before settling in London. There he became famous for his unmatched wit and infamous for his personal eccentricities--long hair décor at his lodgings that included peacock feathers and blue china and ultimately sexual behavior that was deemed both intolerable and criminal. During the first half of the 1890s he was enjoying remarkable social prominence and literary success with the staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan" 1892 "A Woman of No Importance" 1893 "An Ideal Husband" 1894 and the incomparable "The Importance of Being Earnest" 1895. But two months after the staging of this last play he brought a defamation suit against the Marquess of Queensbury the father of his intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas. The suit backfired: in the course of the litigation Wilde was investigated by police and his homosexuality was exposed leaving his reputation destroyed. He was sentenced in May of 1895 to two years of hard labor spending part of his time behind bars at Reading Gaol where he produced his powerful poem "De Profundis." After release he moved to the Continent and died three years later in Paris of meningitis. As Day says "Among English men of letters only Byron and Shaw have surpassed Wilde in the craft of conscious posing and self-publicizing" a fact that has made succeeding generations suspicious of the reality behind the legend that the author helped to establish. But after a period when he was treated as a kind of martyr because of his suffering at the hands of squeamish Victorianism "it is at last possible to evaluate Wilde as the capable literary artist he actually was." In physical terms these are modest but nevertheless pleasing products of the Beaumont Press founded by Cyril W. Beaumont in 1917. A special feature of the Press is its patterned paper bindings each with a design created for one title only. Beaumont Press unknown
1928483Paris. Société d'édition Le Livre Emile Chamontin 1928. Trans. into French by E. Jaloux and F. Frapereau. Large 4to 349 pp. 3/4 maroon moroccan gilt back t.e.g marbled boards and end papers with original wrappers bound in. Illus. With 23 steel engravings by Jean-Emil Laboureur. No. 61 of 230 numbered copies. Godefroy 369 Carteret IV p. 409. ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN INCLUDING SPINE. Corners rubbed end paper slightly split interior fine. Fine example of Laboureur's work at the height of his stylized art deco period. Société d'édition Le Livre, hardcover books
1928483Paris. Société d'édition Le Livre Emile Chamontin 1928. Trans. into French by E. Jaloux and F. Frapereau. Large 4to 349 pp. 3/4 maroon moroccan gilt back t.e.g marbled boards and end papers with original wrappers bound in. Illus. With 23 steel engravings by Jean-Emil Laboureur. No. 61 of 230 numbered copies. Godefroy 369 Carteret IV p. 409. ORIGINAL WRAPS BOUND IN INCLUDING SPINE. Corners rubbed end paper slightly split interior fine. Fine example of Laboureur's work at the height of his stylized art deco period. Société d'édition Le Livre, hardcover
19046032<p><strong>Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation.</strong></p><p>The first translation of Oscar Wilde's '<em>Ballad'</em> by N. Korn presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky appeared in 1903 but it was riddled with errors. The following year another version by <strong>Konstantin Balmont</strong> 1867–1942 a Russian symbolist poet and translator was published. In the summer of 1902 Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903 Balmont delivered a lecture titled '<em>Oscar Wilde's Poetry and The Ballad.'</em> and presented his translation at a meeting of the Literary-Artistic Circle in Moscow. During his lecture he likened Wilde to Nietzsche and hailed him as 'the greatest English writer of the end of the last century'. Balmont also prepared translations of works by Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Walt Whitman and Robert Burns. His translations were always infused with his own distinctive style often referred to as 'Balmontic motifs'. <br />The book's cover featuring a portrait of Oscar Wilde was created by <strong>Modest Durnov</strong> 1867–1928 a painter poet architect and a close friend of Balmont. Durnov was known as 'a demon' a 'master of thought' and a 'Moscow Dandy'. According to some accounts he met Wilde during one of his trips to London. <br />This book was once part of the <em>private library of Russian artist <strong>Mikhail Tarkhanov</strong></em> 1888–1962 a renowned master of endpapers and bookbinding. Tarkhanov received his education at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing which later became VKhUTEMAS under the guidance of Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky.</p><p>OCLC locates two copies of this edition only: in the University Library of Bern and the Rome National Central Library.</p><p><em><strong>Please be advised that certain books in our collection may require an export permit for international shipping. If you are interested in purchasing such books for delivery abroad kindly contact our staff for assistance in obtaining the necessary permit. We appreciate your understanding.</strong></em></p> Skorpion paperback
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
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
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
