[Wilde Oscar]:Livre Rare Book
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200526682Stock, collection La Cosmopolite, 2005. In-8 broché, couverture imprimée. Infime frottement au bord du premier plat et léger pli de lecture au dos.
1942875461942 Paris, Mercure de France, 1942, petit in 8° broché, 347 pages ; couverture effrangée avec petits manques.
L14342Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950. In-8 br. Traduction de J. Castier. Bibliographie. E.O.
195547694Paris Gallimard 1955 In-12, broch, couverture illustre.Edition originale. Un des 40 exemplaires numrots sur vlin pur fil, seul tirage sur grand papier.
3659Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950. grand in-8, broché, couverture imprimée et illustrée (extrait de " The Early Work " d'Aubrey Beardsley), 205 pp. Bibliographie et index en fin d'ouvrage.
20655Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950. Gr. in-8°, 205p. Broché.
29800Paris, Mazarine, 1987. Gr. in-8°, 345p. Broché, couverture illustrée.
195045891950 Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950, grand in 8 broché, 207 pages ; non coupé.
5558P., Gallimard, 1955, in 12, broché, 213pp.
13920P., Mercure de France, 1946, in 12 broché, 77 pages.
1987199391987 Lausanne, Favre, 1987, grand in 8° broché, 408 pages ; couverture illustrée.
36610P., Perrin, 1967, in 8°, cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette illustrée en couleurs, 411 pages ; illustrations ; bibliographie et important index des noms in-fine. Bel exemplaire.
3709Mercure de France. 1928. In-8° broché. 237 pages. Mention de 6è édition (dans l'année de l'E.O.).
3710Mercure de France. 1948. In-8° broché. 75 pages. E.O. (pas de grand papier).
11479Paris, Biographies Gallimard, 1995. Traduit de l'anglais par Marie Tadié et PHilippe Delamare. Fort in-8 broché de 676 pp. comprenant 34 photographies hors texte. Bon état.
2014264702014 Portrait encadré (format du cadre 14,5 x 16), réalisé en héliogravure.
189810493London, Leonard Smithers, 1898. In-8 de [4]-31-[1] pages, imprimées et paginées au seul verso, demi-toile blanche, titre doré au dos. Reliure un peu tachée, rousseurs se limitant aux gardes.
39285later Edition of the First Edition 7th printing of June 1899 31 pages original hardcover quarter vellum with mustard boards Leonard Smithers very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe France after his release from Reading Gaol pronounced "redding jail" on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment on Tuesday 7 July 1896 a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife Laura Ellen earlier that year at Clewer near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers on February 13 1898 under the name C.3.3. which stood for cell block C landing 3 cell 3. This ensured that Wilde's name by then notorious did not appear on the poem's front cover. It was not commonly known until the 7th printing in June 1899 that C.3.3. was actually Wilde. The first edition of 800 copies sold out within a week and Smithers announced that a second edition would be ready within another week; that was printed on February 24th in 1000 copies which also sold well. A third edition of 99 numbered copies "signed by the author" was printed on March 4th on the same day a fourth edition of 1200 ordinary copies was printed. A fifth edition of a 1000 copies was printed on March 17th and a sixth edition was printed in 1000 copies on May 21st 1898. So far the book's title page had identified the author only as C.3.3. although many reviewers and of course those who bought the numbered and autographed third edition copies knew that Wilde was the author but the seventh edition printed on June 23 1899 actually revealed the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets below the C.3.3. hardcover
Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1950. grand in-8, broché, couverture imprimée et illustrée (extrait de " The Early Work " d'Aubrey Beardsley), 205 pp. Bibliographie et index en fin d'ouvrage. Bel exemplaire.
190726709Philadelphia:: The Butterfly Autumn 1907. publisher's printed stiff wrappers. Small chips and light use to wrappers. 4to. The four-page letter is reproduced in facsimile together with transcription. The Butterfly, unknown
1899158271899. Shannon Charles. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt.<br/> <br/> First Edition consisting of 1000 regular copies so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum. This was the fourth and last of Wilde's four great comedies of manners -- following LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN published in 1893 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 1894 and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST 1899 five months earlier. "An Ideal Husband" had opened at the Theatre Royal on 3 January 1895 the actors had been quite annoyed that Wilde required them to rehearse on Christmas Day only to keep them waiting for him to appear. It was an immediate success but it was while "Earnest" and "Husband" were running that Wilde inadvisably filed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry father of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas for criminal libel; this quickly morphed into a charge of "gross indecency" against Wilde and when he was arrested in April his plays closed. Sentenced to two years' hard labour 1895-1897 upon his release he fled to France -- where he resided when this book was published. The artistic binding design is by Charles Shannon. This is a very good copy of a book that is difficult to find in any better condition: the spine is rather dull and there is moderate cover soil. Mason 385. Provenance: the front endpaper bears the signature "Wilmer C. France 1899". The pioneering female classicist Emily Wilmer Cave France 1868-1951 married name Wright after 1906 was born in Birmingham England and educated first at Girton College Cambridge then at the University of Chicago -- where she was a Fellow in Latin and in Greek while earning her Ph.D.; from 1897 until her retirement in 1933 which span includes the date this book was published she was a Professor in Greek at Bryn Mawr College. In 2022 the Cambridge Philological Society published a monograph by D.N. Greenwood about her "Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Female Classicists. unknown
1899ST19154London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1000 COPIES. 215 x 155 mm. 8 3/8 x 6". 8 p.l. 213 1 pp. <br/> Original lavender cloth decorated with gilt flourishes smooth spine with gilt lettering edges untrimmed and ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Mason 385. ◆Spine slightly sunned as virtually always but no wear to joints or hinges and in all A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED OBVIOUSLY UNREAD COPY because unopened and without the soiling this edition is almost always found with.<br/> <br/> This is an exceptionally fine copy of Wilde's second hit play successful like his other witty comedies but with at least slightly more serious social and political content. Opening at the Haymarket Theatre in 1895 and continuing for 124 performances it features as the title character a prominent politician in danger of losing his reputation because of a potentially damaging letter that the play's villain threatens to expose if the husband refuses to support the former's corrupt political agenda. The play moves its characters toward a more ideal moral standard as they struggle with dishonesty hypocrisy double standards materialism and corruption of social and political life. But none of this weighs down Wilde's witty banter as the play suggests after all that even when there is a pretense of the embrace of moral probity nobody is ever that good or is even expected to be. The work is dedicated to the Irish-American writer Frank Harris who is said to have given Wilde the idea to use insider trading which related to Disraeli's financial machinations as part of the plot here. Covering the play for the "Saturday Review" George Bernard Shaw declared Wilde 1854-1900 "our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit with philosophy with drama with actors and audience with the whole theatre." On nearly all copies of this edition the publisher's binding is now encountered in unappetizing condition; finding our unopened copy--with virtually none of the soiling almost always seen with the four Wilde plays bound in this lavender cloth--is piece of very good fortune. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown
193281512Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press 1932. First edition. 59 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else very near fine in near fine printed dust jacket with light chipping to crown. One of 800 numbered copies. An imaginary conversation about Oscar Wilde between Jean Paul Raymond a fictional character and Charles Ricketts written entirely by Ricketts. Inscription on the front paste-down from San Francisco collector Albert Sperisen to San Francisco printer Lawton Kennedy. Bloomsbury: Nonsuch Press, 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
1922796Gothenburg: N. J. Gumpert 1922. Very good. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities chipped and snagged otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly scarce title. <br /> <br /> First edition variant issue in collected form of these five essays two in their original French on Wilde and associates. From an edition of 400 copies this copy is neither numbered nor signed and has a cancel paste-over obscuring the original "Vienna 1921 / Alfred Holder" imprint on the title page; Gumpert's imprint appears on the wrapper instead. "Printed by Alfred Holder Vienna 1922" is printed on the lower wrapper. N. J. Gumpert unknown
