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20059781420925920-2025Digireads.Com 2005. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Oscar Wilde</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Digireads.Com</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781420925920</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2005</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 88</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Oscar Wilde's classic drama "An Ideal Husband" is the story of an up-and-coming politician with a secret past and the blackmail scheme to keep that secret quiet. Wilde's play is a first-rate comedy that challenges its audience with the basic theme of morality and the greater standard that seems to fall upon those individuals in the public eye.</p> Digireads.Com hardcover
1955138056Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Original scenario artwork for the 1955 film depicting two men and a woman each well dressed and on horseback meeting in front of a large mansion. <br /> <br /> Historical costume drama set during the Revolutionary War. American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point. <br /> <br /> Gouache artwork 26.5 x 12 inches within with an unpainted border of roughly 1 inch. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1991163221New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1991. First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy INSCRIBED on the title page to author Chris Offutt: "July 97 / To Chris / with admiration and in hopes of having a real conversation one of these days / Luc."<br /> <br /> About Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown
197614235ENew York: Simon & Schuster 1976. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author Meta Wilde to fellow writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “For Wayne Warga whose encouragement and interest were important to us in the writing of this book. Warm regards Meta Wilde. November 1976. and Orin Borsten.†The story of a script girl who meets the married Faulkner when working on the scenario for Howard Hawk’s The Road to Glory and builds a relationship with him that continues for over thirty years. Illustrated. About fine copy with a trace of rubbing to the bottom corners in a near fine dust jacket with some slight fading to the spine. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25 Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later Warga became a mystery novelist creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover Fatal Impressions and Singapore Transfer featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer Jeffrey Dean. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1922228889<p>First edition. Octavo. Original gilt stamped white cloth t.e.g. uncut. Dust jacket unclipped; 3" chip on spine; few small chips; some separation at fold on flap. Very good. 39 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Jarrold & Sons Norwich. One of 1000 copies on handmade paper.</p> Methuen & Co., Ltd. hardcover books
1902450821902. WILDE Oscar. PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG. London: Privately printed 1894. 1902. First pirated edition. Crown 8vo. sewn brown paper wraps lettered and decorated in black. A near fine copy that shows only the slightest edgewear. Mason 599. unknown books
1936WRCLIT84619Stamford: The Overbrook Press 1936. Cloth and decorated boards vellum tips. Illustrated. Faint trace of sunning to pale green spine a few foxmarks to fore-edge else about fine in slightly sunned and handsoiled slipcase. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed in handset Lutetia on Rives Les Bibliophiles paper. Illustrated with original color wood- engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka who also designed the volume. CAHOON p.9. The Overbrook Press hardcover books
199814415London: Primrose Academy 1998. Skargon Yvonne. Quarter cloth with a paper printed in a repeating pattern of two of the artist's cats covering the boards. Illustrated with a plethora of engravings of cats can you really ever have too many cats. Signed by Yvonne Skargon the wood engraver designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press slipcase. Copy number 59. Unnumbered pages.A charming book displaying three cats in assorted poses activities and places. The engravings are accompanied by apt quotes from Wilde and Johnson cat lovers both. Both collections were individually printed to great popularity years ago. This is the first combined edition and the first printing with the illustrations printed from the original wood blocks. Primrose Academy hardcover books
191016692Frankfurt am Main: Franz Benjamin Auffarth 1910. Softcover. vg. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Minor foxing and pulling to wraps. Stamp of previous owner on title-page. "Eine Auswahl vorbildichler Entwürfe für Reihengräber. Zugleich ein Führer durch die Grabmalkunst-Ausstellung auf dem neuen Frankfurter Hauptfriedhofe." Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs by H. Collischonn. Includes 32 advertisement pages. Text in German gothic script. Very good condition. Franz Benjamin Auffarth unknown
197614235ENew York: Simon & Schuster 1976. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author Meta Wilde to fellow writer Wayne Warga. Inscribed: “For Wayne Warga whose encouragement and interest were important to us in the writing of this book. Warm regards Meta Wilde. November 1976. and Orin Borsten.†The story of a script girl who meets the married Faulkner when working on the scenario for Howard Hawk’s The Road to Glory and builds a relationship with him that continues for over thirty years. Illustrated. About fine copy with a trace of rubbing to the bottom corners in a near fine dust jacket with some slight fading to the spine. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25 Warga reported on John F. Kennedy’s race for the Presidency and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later Warga became a mystery novelist creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover Fatal Impressions and Singapore Transfer featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer Jeffrey Dean. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1922228889<p>First edition. Octavo. Original gilt stamped white cloth t.e.g. uncut. Dust jacket unclipped; 3" chip on spine; few small chips; some separation at fold on flap. Very good. 39 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Jarrold & Sons Norwich. One of 1000 copies on handmade paper.</p> Methuen & Co., Ltd. hardcover
19318499Seattle: Dogwood Press 1931. Hardcover in slipcase. Very Good/Very Good-. Tall octavo. Tri-color boards with title stamped in gilt on front board. Printed on handmade paper. Pp. 24. Lacking the frontispiece else Very Good slight toning to spine some spotting to margins of latter leaves. in Very Good rubbed slipcase. Card laid in that reads "From the Library of George H. Carter Public Printer." A handsome copy of a fragile book often found in disrepair. Dogwood Press hardcover
1906004997Sunderland: Keystone Press 1906. Wilde visited America in 1882 lecturing there to explain the Aesthetic Movement. On his return to England he gave this "report" in September of 1883. Edited and with an introduction by Stuart Mason. pseudonym of Christopher Millard 1872-1927 who was the first bibliographer of Wilde's works. This is a Very Good minus copy of the First Edition which was LIMITED to 500 copies 50 on handmade paper. A rare work bound in fragile stitched paper wraps. Clean text; 40 pages which are unopened. The covers have significant chips along the margins and while present they are currently detached. Please note the condition issue; Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy in need of restoration or repair. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Keystone Press Paperback
B172350-1Paris Éditions de La Banderole 1926. 151 5pp. 8 etched plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 200 numbered copies on vélin de Rives with an extra suite of the etchings from the limited edition of 230 printed by Coulouma. Paris (Éditions de La Banderole), 1926. paperback
1928D19243New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1928. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Original cloth-backed boards gilt; dust jacket. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN VASSOS and signed by him on the half-title. DJ is chipped along the edges and has a chip missing from the center of the spine. In mylar protective wrapper to minimize further damage. <br/><br/> E. P. Dutton & Co. hardcover
1912510022Riverside Connecticut: The Hillacre Bookhouse 1912. Softcover. Near Fine. First separate American edition. 16mo. 34pp. Sewn printed wrappers. Binding a touch loose with very light toning and wear printed paper label with a bit of light soil close to near fine. One of 1000 copies printed. Not in Mason; collected editions of The Happy Prince and Other Tales were published prior to this edition but Mason does not seem to list any earlier separate editions. An attractive little volume published by Frederick C. Bursch surprisingly uncommon given the limitation; OCLC locates two copies NYPL University of Tulsa. The Hillacre Bookhouse unknown
1962398410New York: Macmillan 1962. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus with Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Cloth. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing along the top extremities. A nice copy of this volume of Wilde's fairy tales prepared for children. Also issued in glossy boards without jacket this issue is much less common. Macmillan hardcover
ANAIS-0471161659Wiley-Interscience. hardcover. Good. 6.5x1x9.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley-Interscience hardcover
2008SONG0199274320OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008-05-25. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.21x6.14x1.37. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
2008DADAX0199274320OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008-05-25. First Edition. hardcover. New. 9.21x6.14x1.37. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS hardcover
1916058059New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1916. First Edition Thus 1st & 2nd Issues . Full Leather Gilt. Near Fine/Fair. Ix 706 3 Pp Catalogue Of Wilde's Works At End; Ix 806 Pp. Two Volumes Both With Top Edge Gilt. 1: Shorter Volume Is 706 Pp. Red Leather With Heavy Gilt Design By Goudy Purple Endpapers Half Title Title Page With Blue Colored Design Similar To Book Cover And Dj Cover With Tiny Loss At Lower Right Hand Corner Printing Error Paper Unworn At Center Of Title Is Cosmopolitan Insignia Of A Rampant Lion Dj Printed In Purple On Light Violet Paper. 2: Longer Book Is In Much Thicker Brown Leather Stamped In Gilt Identical To First Issue Purple Endpapers Half Title Title Page With Blue Border But Device At Center Is An Egyptian God With Initials Cbc Copyright Page Adds Copyright Information For De Profundis Contents Pages And Text Add A Prefatory Dedication Of De Profundis To Dr. Max Meyerfield By Robert Ross Four Letters Written From Reading Prison And De Profundix Pp 709-806 And Lacks Catalogue At End But With Short List Of These Five Collected Works Added At Bottom Of P. 806 And With Several Places With Broken Type Including "O" In Half Title And Two Capital "O"'S In Contents Pages. The Rear Panels Of Both Dj's Are Printed In The Same Purple Color As The Front Panel And Spine Of The First Volume. The Dj To The First Volume Lacks The Top 1/3 And The Cover And Dj Are Completely Split At Front Spine Edge; The Covers To The Second Volume Are Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Edges And The Dj Has Tiny Losses At Corners General Wear Some Internal Tape Repairs. <br/> <br/> Cosmopolitan Book Corporation hardcover
1976148206Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Light scuffing on bottom text block edge. Owner imprint on FEP. Illustrations by James Hill.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1976127634Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. NO BOOKPLATE OR OWNER MARKINGS.; First Easton Press Edition.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Easton Press hardcover
1973121050Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Easton Press Collector's Library of Famous Editions. ; First Easton Press Edition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Easton Press hardcover
40280London Duckworth & Co 1920 in 8 (25,5x19) 1 volume reliure pleine percaline moutarde de l'éditeur, dos orné, plat supérieur titré en noir et illustré au centre d'une marotte, 133 pages [1], avec des illustrations hors-texte en couleurs par Charles Robinson), dont frontispice (illustrations by Charles Robinson). Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )