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1914feb10494Librariei Alcalay 1914. Used. 1914; Romanian Edition of Prietenul devotat si alte povestiri; For more details please contact me Librariei Alcalay unknown
198486113Vancouver: William Hoffer 1984. First Canadian edition. 58 pp. Fine in full Coromandel silk over boards with printed cover and spine labels. No dust jacket as issued. Designed by Robert Bringhurst. One of 90 of 110 numbered copies on Carlyle Japan paper. Translated from the original German by Greve with his Afterword. Originally published in Germany in 1903. Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar Number One. Vancouver: William Hoffer hardcover
1907222567New York Mitchell Kennerley 1907. 1907. First American edition from English sheets. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece portrait from photograph by Ellis & Walery and 25 illustrations. Original blue cloth spine with printed paper label t.e.g. uncut. Good-very good. No bookplates. Former owners ink signature on the title page. F. Hardcover. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1907. hardcover
197555214New York / London: Frederick Warne & Co 1975. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Inscribed first edition of these spooky gothic and fantastical tales for children - including works by Oscar Wilde Ben Jonson Nancy Gorgorian and the Brothers Grimm. 9'' x 6''. Original olive pictorial paper boards stamped in black. In original unclipped $6.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Arrowood in black and white. 206 pages. Inscribed by Arrowood on front free endpaper in three different color inks: "For Gary & Phipps / With Warmest Wishes / Clinton Arrowood." A bit of wear and toning to edges touch of foxing to top edge. Spine rather sunned. Bright. Frederick Warne & Co unknown
1925148204Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1925 film showing actress Irene Rich. With the stamp of American Weekly and a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on Oscar Wilde's 1893 play about a society woman determined to unveil her husband's imagined affair.<br /> <br /> Set in London. <br /> <br /> One 8 x 10 inches one 7 x 9 inches . Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown
192670547London:: Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn 1926. First edition. publisher's tan two-toned buckram; t.e.g. Bumped at corners; very slight rubbing to the cloth; clean tight and sound. . Folio. Illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky. . Translated by Lady Wilde. Published for the Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, hardcover
1905biblio72<p>First German edition of The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde's first published short story about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. Translated by Franz Blei. Preliminary leaves 88 pages with frontispiece and plates by famed German painter and illustrator Heinrich Vogeler of the Worpspede Artist's Colony. On vellum paper. Signs of wear: Cover loose from binding. Some soiling on front and back cover; chipping on bottom edge of binding no tears no missing pages. </p> LEIPZIG: IM INSEL paperback
1991115316Folio Society 1991. hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. As new 1991 Folio Society in pictorial boards with clear jacket as issued. T.e.g. A33 Please email for photos. Folio Society hardcover
1920003116London and New York: John Lane 1920. Hardcover. G Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Aubrey Beardsley. Red cloth with lettering and peacock feather or floral motifs in gilt. Somewhat toned spine with frayed and chipped ends. Lightly bumped corners and light edgewear and soil. Top edge gilt slightly rubbed. Binding somewhat tender text clean. Interior lightly toned and foxed with scattered light soil. B/w illustrations including the suppressed title page. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. No prev owner names or stamps. Not ex-library. 67 pp. <br/> <br/> John Lane hardcover
1939115865Grabhorn Press 1939. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Illustrated by Mallett Deane. Limited to 200 copies. Covers worn with a stain on the spine. Endpapers discolored. Some tanning along edges. Scarce. Grabhorn Press hardcover
1980429343Horizon Handmade Books Stratford-upon-Avon 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Limited and numbered edition: 1766/2600. Physical Description; 79 pages : illustrations portrait ; 31 cm. Contents; The happy prince - The nightingale and the Rose - The selfish giant - The devoted friend - The remarkable rocket - The star-child. Subjects; 1800-1899. Children's literature English. English literature. English literature 19th century. Wilde Oscar. Horizon Handmade Books, Stratford-upon-Avon hardcover
19971381New York NY: Morris Jacobs 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Mikhail Magaril. Narrow Folio 44 cm x 15 cm. 36 pp. #5/50 Black/yellow cloth spine/covers. Grey cloth slipcase with light shelf wear. Signed in pencil by Mikhail Magaril artist and Morris Jacobs rest of text block tight and unmarked. Fifty copies of this book were printed on Fabriano Rosapina paper by offset lithography. Signed by illustrator and publisher on limitation page also includes signed thank you letter 1998 from the director of The National Library of Russia St. Petersburg. Morris Jacobs hardcover
1991007189New York : St. Martin's Press 1991 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st edition 1st printing ; 374 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0312059973; 9780312059972 LCCN: 90-28738 ; "A Thomas Dunne book." ; LC: PS3569.A784; Dewey: 813/.54 ; OCLC: 22983512 ; "During his lecture tour of the American West English writer and personality Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been murdering prostitutes and after he is named a suspect he is determined to find the madman and clear his name" ; "A savage killer haunts the lecture tour of a vaunted Irish playwrightThough a world-renowned dandy Oscar Wilde is not too refined for Colorado. As he travels across America on the lecture circuit the famously witty playwright has found much to love about the western states. Whiskey saloons and friendly conversation with notables like John 'Doc' Holliday-Wilde loves it all. There is even in every town his entourage visits a sensational murder. In the nights after Wilde gives his talks a man with a knife goes lurking in the back alleys and red-light districts of these dusty western towns. Each morning the police find the remains of a savagely murdered prostitute. Booze-addled detective Earl Grigsby is tracking the killer and suspects Wilde may be the one with blood on his hands. If he ever wants to leave America Wilde will have to use his wit to unmask the savage killer." ; "Walter Satterthwait b. 1946 is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s he wrote his first book: an adventure novel Cocaine Blues 1979 about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller The Aegean Affair 1982 Satterthwait created his best-known character Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass 1988 Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels concluding the series with 1996's Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books he wrote mysteries starring historical figures including Miss Lizzie 1989 a novel about Lizzie Borden and Wilde West 1991 a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. His most recent novel is Dead Horse 2007 an account of the mysterious death of Depression-era pulp writer Raoul Whitfield" ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991 hardcover
199843734Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Very good in a very good jacket. First US edition with photographs from the "Icons of New Objectivity" series as well as Renger-Patzsch's lesser-known images of landscapes urban scenes and nature studies. 113 full-page black and white plates. Translated from the German edition. Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Toning to spine and upper edges of jacket; corners and spine ends bumped. 176pp. MIT Press hardcover
197625943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover
190911870London: Methuen & Co 1909. Third Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Third Edition. Cloth. A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales written by Oscar Wilde that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales 1892.<br /> From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Shelfwear and bumped corners foxing throughout else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in green cloth with gilt decorations and deckled edges. 8vo 179pp. Former owner signed on fep inscription on half title. Methuen & Co unknown
192123766Westminster: Beaumont Press 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ethelbert White. Thin 8vo. 60pp. Cloth spine gilt. Patterned paper over boards. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper. Woodcut cover and decorations by Ethelbert White. One of 400 numbered copies from a totla edition of 475 this is number 455. A near fine copy.<br /> <p><br /> "The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday May 19th after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'.<br /> <p>. Beaumont Press hardcover
19249908New York: H.S. Nichols 1924. 5 x 4.5" black leather decorated with gilt gilt lettering text block edges gilt 141 3 pp portrait frontispiece. Volume V of H.S. Nichols' "Precious Tomes" series. Covers worn front joint cracked. H.S. Nichols hardcover