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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
199822585Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . 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. <br/><br/>Co-edited by Thomas Weski with Ann and Jurgen Wilde with an essay by Thomas Janzen. Includes 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. MIT Press hardcover books
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 books
19307583NY DUTTON 1930 1930. DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, DUTTON, 1930 hardcover books
1904267592London: Privately Printed 1904. Limited. pamphlet. near fine. 30 pp. Small 8vo gray-green printed wrappers. London: Privately Printed 1904. Limited Edition. Near fine<br/><br/> Reprint of Wilde's Introduction to a book of poems by Rennell Rodd. No. 140 of 200 copies. Mason 614.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
1911290615Portland: Mosher 1911. Limited. hardcover. very good. Thin 8vo boards paper spine label; slipcase. Portland: Mosher 1911 Limited Edition.<br/><br/> The boards are browned due to the use of acidic paper in the slipcase but otherwise a solid clean copy.<br/><br/> Mosher unknown books
190733072Boston: Boston Evening Transcript 1907. Offprint. 12mo 18.5cm.; decorative staplebound card wrappers; 251-285pp. Wrappers somewhat toned and dust-soiled smalll faint dampstain to upper wrapper else Very Good and sound. This state not described by Horodisch who notes two additional cover states: "Read the Greatest Tragical Poem in Literature The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde" and another with a Chicago Holdaway imprint. Offprint from Vol. 13 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Boston Evening Transcript unknown books
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 books
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
19307583NY DUTTON 1930 1930. DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, DUTTON, 1930 hardcover
19911400677London: The Folio Society 1991. Hardcover. Octavo xiii 112 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter black cloth and black-and-white printed paper boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Top edge of textblock gilt. Fore edge of textblock deckled. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 9 3/4. Folio Press. 1400677. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Folio Society hardcover
192225881London:: Methuen 1922. One of 1000 copies on handmade paper. publisher's white gilt buckram. A little tanned at the spine and edges of the boards. 8vo. Methuen, hardcover
1903008870Paris: No Publisher 1903. This is a Limited/Numbered edition #190 of 250 copies. Published by Smithers in London even though it lists the publication locale as Paris. 132 pp. A tight clean copy but the spine shows typical fading readable but just barely. A pirated early printing. . Early Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. No Publisher Hardcover
1908259344London: Methuen and Co 1908. First edition one of 1000 copies on handmade paper for the First Collected Edition. 1 vols. White buckram with gilt decorations after Charles Shannon. Spine slightly toned but a nice clean copy. First edition one of 1000 copies on handmade paper for the First Collected Edition. 1 vols. Mason 447. Mason 447 <br/><br/> Methuen and Co hardcover
190455531Berlin: Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung 1904. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 146 6pp. Bound in three-quarter leather over burgundy cloth with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine with raised bands retaining original wraps. Marbled endpapers. In addition to the three essays named in the title the publication contains the "Sonnet to Liberty" at rear and three pages of publisher's advertisements. Text in German. Cover with very light wear along edges and some light water staining to bottom front cover. Karl Schnabel Axel Junckers Buchhandlung hardcover
193018048NY: Williams Belasco & Meyers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover salmon endpapers top edge blue fore-edge deckle printed on fine thick stock. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. . Covers very mildly soiled else fine unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE. . New Classics Library Series. B&W Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 67 16-Plates pp . Williams, Belasco & Meyers hardcover
190723026London: John Lane 1907. Incomplete. Lacks four plates but has the suppressed title page. Some rubbing of covers. Some wear at extremities. Glue darkening inside covers and on end papers. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Beardsley Aubrey. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Lane Hardcover
190674739London and New York:: John Lane 1906. publisher's white boards illustrated in green after Aubrey Beardsley t.e.g. Attractive bookplate on pastedown; same owner's ink signature; shallow damptstain to the top edge of front free endpaper and two leaves following; boards quite soiled with a large brown stain on the unprinted rear board. . 12mo. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. Mason 352. Samuels-Lasner 59c. John Lane, hardcover
1907538378New York: For the Trade 1907. Softcover. Very Good. First New York edition Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Translated by Oscar Wilde. 16mo. 6pp. Gray perfectbound wrapper with cover illustration. Very good with toning some wrinkling to the rear wraps and light edgewear including a few short tears crease and nicked corner. Presumably an unauthorized printing which states on the lower margin of front cover states: "The Great Success of the Metropolitan Opera House." Not in Mason. For the Trade unknown
191912126London / Paris: Methuen & Co / 1919. Twelfth Edition / Second Foolscap Edition / Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good. Twelfth Edition / Second Foolscap Edition / Second Printing. Cloth. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. "It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol also included in this volume. The poems were first collected by their author when he was twenty-six years old."--Preface. Two other volumes of Wilde's more prolific works.<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. Light shelfwear and bumped corners toning throughout else tight bright and unmarred. Bound in green cloth with dark blue outlining gilt borders and deckled edges. 8vo viii 161pp. ; xix 180pp. ; xi 352pp. Methuen & Co / unknown
192879263New York:: E. P. Dutton 1928. First of this illustrated edition; No. 137 of 200 copies signed by John Vassos. publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth t.e.g. in dust jacket. Very slightest of rubbing at the extremities and corner tips; otherwise a fine copy. The dust jacket is split at the joints and the backstrip is in pieces lacking about a 1" section with some other small chips. . 8vo. Illustrated by John Vassos. E. P. Dutton, hardcover
