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189026040071890. pirated first. hardcover. very good. Pirated first edition. Book very good foxing throughoutsome soiling to covers former owner's one-line writing to front free end paper. unknown
1891260London: Ward Lock & Co 1891. First Edition. First printing without Bowden's name added to the title page imprint the Preface with Wilde's name at the end in larger bolder type and with "nd" for "and" beginning the eighth line from the bottom on page 208. The error was corrected for the second printing which included the 250 signed copies of the limited edition—copies that in addition to being the second issue are literally the second printing. This trade edition is not only earlier than the limited but when it has its dust jacket many times rarer. Original white vellum parchment-backed boards former owner's neat name to endpaper spine slightly faded from light not dust else near fine in the rare dust jacket with small tears and chips to the spine tips and corners neatly repaired a bit short an irregularity with nineteenth-century hand-trimmed jackets but a charismatic jacket still—integral clean and one to be owned with pride. An unequivocal Victorian classic as great a short novel as has ever been written and copies in dustjacket must have been dumped in the Bermuda Triangle because they never show up at auction or in the trade. Full morocco case. Wilde was from that atypical minority of great men those who do not remind us of anyone else. He wrote the best comedies since Shakespeare mastered paradox and was the reigning wit of the 1890s but he became a victim when society forgot that the mouse should never be a juror at the cat’s trial. Dorian Gray was his only novel and why not When you write one like this one is sufficient. It’s undeniably a modern Gothic and a self-evident Victorian classic unique in the delicacy of its grim and melancholy metaphor and it continues to maintain it’s appeal even in our 21st century. Ward Lock & Co unknown
1891BOOKS324407New York: THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW February 1891. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1891. First Printing. Paperback. First appearance in the United States of this Oscar Wilde publication pages 292-319. Other contributors include E. B. Lanin David F. Schloss and a continuing story by George Mededith. Ref. - Mason #52. . Sm 4to. One advertising page has a tear without anything missing. A period magazine club readers list glued to rear cover. . THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW February, 1891 paperback
18952221665<p>First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase.</p><p>Printed by The Chiswick Press.</p><p>Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed.</p> Privately Printed paperback
1894102669New York: R.F. Fenno. 1894. Early US edition published same year as the UK limited edition edition de luxe. Original colour illustrated stiff wraps Mt Fuji Japanese house and boat col dec endpapers pp 22. The yapp edges have very small closed tears and very small holes. Clean. Very good condition. Unusual early printing of Wilde's poem "The Sphinx" in Japanese-inspired binding by a small publishing firm. Early Issue. Paper Wraps. R.F. Fenno paperback
1894329742London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. fine. Ricketts Charles. Title page design and nine illustrations eight full page by Charles Ricketts. Printed throughout in black red & green all edges untrimmed. Thin small 4to full vellum with pictorial decorations in gilt to the spine & covers by Ricketts. 2 bookplates. London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane 1894. Limited edition.<br/> <br/> One of 200 unnumbered copies. An exceptionally fine copy unfoxed and with a clean binding<br/> <br/> Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown
1894001392London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1894. 44p including blanks original gilt decorated vellum designed by Charles Ricketts with his monogram to bottom left hand corner of upper cover and the monogram of the binders Leighton Son and Hodge to the bottom left hand corner of the lower cover. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed vellum generally quite bright and clean. Internally some light browning to page edges some light foxing to several pages as often but generally fairly clean. Small booksellers label and previous owners book plate to front paste down. Printed in three colours throughout. Stated one of two hundred copies for the UK with another fifty printed for the US and twenty-five large paper copies and possibly a few more. Now housed in a cloth drop back box by Temple Bookbinders. Holbrook Jackson called 'The Sphinx' "'the most remarkable of the books of this period' because it translated the Wildean temperament into physical form . Ricketts created a parallel system of symbols evoking the mystery and erotic sensuality the Aesthetes often associated with Egypt" Thomson 'Aesthetic Tracts - Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design' page 75. Mason 361. First Edition. Full Vellum. Good. Illus. by Ricketts Charles. 8vo. Elkin Mathews and John Lane Hardcover
1894151353London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1894. In the original vellum decorated by Charles Ricketts First edition one of 200 unnumbered copies. Wilde's poem together with Charles Ricketts's art nouveau illustrations was described by W. E. Henley Wilde's harshest critic as "about as fin-de-Siecle a business as you ever saw" Frankel p. 155. Wilde first met Ricketts in 1889 and in the two years that followed the artist designed either parts or the entirety of several of Wilde's works. Now celebrated for his book illustration and design Ricketts is also noted for his theatre designs and costumes and he contributed to the first English production of Wilde's Salomé in 1906. James G. Nelson records that alongside the 200 copies published in the limited edition a further 103 copies were printed though most of these were left unbound. Small quarto. Title page design one half-page illustration and eight full-page illustrations by Charles Ricketts. Original full vellum pictorial decorations by Ricketts to spine and covers in gilt all edges untrimmed printed throughout in black green and red. Ownership signature to front free endpaper and ownership inscription to preliminary blank. Vellum lightly soiled as usual and some occasional internal foxing; a fresh and very good copy with bright gilt to the covers. Nicholas Frankel Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books 2003; Mason 361; James G. Nelson A Checklist of Early Bodley Head Books: 1889-1894. hardcover
1894001874London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head 1894 1894. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol. 8-1/2" x 7" illustrated by Charles Rickets limited to 200 copies printed in 3 colors bound in original art nouveau gilt decorated vellum covers straight often found quite bowed inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spine fine foxing to one side of the first 8 leaves typical previous owners bookplate to front pastedown housed in a 1/2 red morocco clamshell slipcase raised bands gilt decorated spine overall still a VERY GOOD copy. Charles Ricketts's art nouveau illustrations were described by W. E. Henley Wilde's harshest critic as "about as fin-de-Siecle a business as you ever saw" Frankel p. 155. Ricketts considered the designs for the illustrations and for the original vellum binding amongst his best work. While predominantly working with book illustration and design Ricketts was also famed for his theater designs and costumes and he contributed to the first English production of Wilde's Salome in 1906. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894 hardcover
189570802Boston:: Joseph Knight Company 1895. publisher's pale blue cloth stamped in red and blue. Short closed tear at the top edge of the half-title page; very slight use to cloth; clean tight and sound. 12mo. Illustrated. Cosy Corner Series. Joseph Knight Company, hardcover
1894835081894. WILDE Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. Orig. tan buckram gilt stamped decorations on boards and spine. London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1894. Mason 365. Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde 1988; Joel Kaplan "Wilde on the Stage" The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde ed. by Peter Raby 1997. First edition. Large paper copy one of 50 copies. Previous owner's signature on limitation page. Boards toned browning to pastedowns and first free endpapers. Overall a near fine copy housed in a custom purple cloth chemise and matching quarter morocco slipcase. unknown
18938682-A-64769Berlin: Bendix & Krakau 1893. Title page and loose photo plates in richly illustrated cloth portfolio. -plate no. 32 is missing a few plates slightly chipped. Bendix & Krakau hardcover
187133153Savannah: Georgia Historical Society. J. H. Estill Printer 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 3 .70 pages 4. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lined borders and title on the front cover. All edges gilt. Areas of rubbed cloth along the edges. Previous owner illustrated book plate with initials RBH on the front paste down. <br /> <br /> This copy includes a post card of Wesleyan Female College in Macon Georgia addressed to "Miss J. Troy Tuscaloosa Ala" from past President of the College Dupont Guerry. Also included is an undated Platt of land along the Savannah River. The Platt is chipped with significant loss at the bottom of the paper resulting in loss of dimensions of the land. The Platt does not name an owner. Laid inside the book is one page letter folded with two blank sides and an address on the back side dated March 7 1835 and signed at the bottom by R. H. Wilde. The letter appears to be addressed to B. F. Butler. The writing is difficult to decipher but the signature is neat and legible. Approx. 5" x 3.5" section of paper clipped from the letter but no missing content of the signed one page letter. Georgia Historical Society. J. H. Estill, Printer hardcover
1861621012Boston: Russell & Tolman 1861. Softcover. Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold with page numbers stamped in the top corners from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains attached to the bifolium light offsetting throughout and some soiling to the exterior still a complete and very good copy. Plate number 4276. OCLC locates only three physical holdings. Russell & Tolman unknown
184210975LITPNew York: Alexander V. Blake 1842. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Wear to spine ends. Corners bumped. Previous owner's nameplate on front paste-down and in pencil on title pg. Foxing throughout. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alexander V. Blake Hardcover
1867737441867. WILDE Richard Henry. Hesperia: A Poem. By Richard Henry Wilde. Edited by His Son. Original cloth A.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1867. First edition. Scarce in the trade. Epic poetic narrative in four cantos in ottavo rima. Light wear to head of spine faint scattered foxing to exterior leaves else very good. unknown
1855612331855. Göttingen Georg H. Wigand 1855 8° XIII 3 558 2 pp. Pappband d.Zt.; frisch bezogen. First German Edition of the "Practical observations on aural surgery and the nature and treatment of diseases of the ear. London: John Churchill 1853" by Sir William Robert Wills 1815-1876 translated by Ernst von Haselberg with a foreword by Wilhelm Braun." "Mein Freund und früherer Schüler Dr. Addinell Hewson zu Philadelphia hat eingewilligt die Amerikanische Ausgabe dieses Buches zu besorgen welche bei Blanchard und Lea herauskommt; und mein Freund Dr. von Haselberg zu Stralsund hat die Uebersetzung ins deutsche übernommen. Dublin 12. Juni 1853.". "This work did more to place British otology on a scientific basis than anything previously published. In his own words Wilde "laboured to rescue the treatment of ear diseases from empiricism and found it upon the well-established laws of modern pathology practical surgery and reasonable therapeutics". He showed the middle ear to be the site of origin of most of the diseases of the ear. He is remembered for his method of treating acute mastoiditis using "Wilde's incision". The book was bitterly attacked by Kramer - see especially Lancet 1853 2 446 - and also by Thomas Wakley editor of that journal. Wilde was the father of Oscar Wilde." Garrison & Morton No.3369 1st. engl. Ed. 1853 unknown
186381986Dublin: Royal Irish Academy 1863. First Thus. . Half-Leather. Reading copy/No Jacket as issued. A Collection of articles dating 1856-63. Library markings; boards present but detached; backstrip missing; leather worn esp at corners; foxing to prelims; textblock sound; contents vg; 14 7 13 31 19 17p illus. Includes: 'On the Ancient & Modern Races of Oxen in Ireland' 'An Essay on the Unmanutactured Animal Remains in the Royal Irish Academy illustrative of the Ancient Animals of Ireland' 'An Inquiry into the Time of the Introduction and general use of the Potato in Ireland.& Notice of 'Bog Butter' 'Account of A Manuscript of Dr Willoughby's 'On The Climate and Disease of Ireland''. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall <br/> <br/> Royal Irish Academy hardcover
184420765Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company. 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight tanning and very light occasional foxing to first and last few pages. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Lacks one map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Spine and hinges professionally repaired. ; This is the observation of a journey taken in 1937. The first edition was published in 1840 in two volumes. The journey includes Corunna Lisbon Madeira Teneriffe Gibraltar Algiers Sicily Egypt Asia Minor Syria Palestine Jerusalem and Greece. Including colored map of Jerusalem frontispiece but lacking the second map the Chart of the Coast of Tyre. Dark blue cloth boards with blindstamped linear design and gilt spine lettering and gilt pictorial design. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv 648 pages . William Curry, Jun. and Company hardcover
1862AQ27877Dublin: Hodges Smith and Co. 1862. 4 100 iv pp. With 90 engraved illustrations in the text. Later brown half-morocco marbled paper boards lettered in gilt to spine. With original publisher's printed buff wrappers and a contemporary envelope addressed to 'Mr. Pfister Medal Room British Museum' bound in. Rubbed spine dulled. Ink-stamp of the Birmingham Assay Office to recto of FFEP. The sole edition of a comprehensive catalogue of the gold and gold- plated artefacts held by the Royal Irish Academy compiled by Anglo-Irish oto-ophthalmologic physician and father of Oscar Wilde William Robert Wilde 1815-1876; the third and final volume of a series on the antiquities kept by the institution the first was published to coincide with the association's meeting in Dublin in 1857. The Birmingham Assay Office one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom was founded in 1773 and to this day remains responsible for testing the purity of precious metals and issuing hallmarks of certification. . First edition. 8vo. Hodges, Smith, and Co. hardcover
187288853Dublin Ireland: McGlashan & GIll 1872. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 7.8 in. x 5.8 in. pp. x 306. Illustrated with 76 in-text wood engravings. Recently rebound in dark green cloth with gilt title to spine. Newer endpapers. Previous owner's name and date 1896 to title page. Light spotting and age-toning throughout. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde 1815 - 1876 was an Irish oto-ophthalmologic surgeon who wrote significant works on medicine as well as archaeology and folklore regarding his native Ireland. He was also the father of Oscar Wilde. McGlashan & GIll hardcover
1854CAT0008101854. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Original half leather over marbled boards old University Library bookplate inside front cover. Contains January-June of 1854. WIlde's essay leads off the February issue and is pages 127-146. <br /> <br /> "When kitchened with "point" i.e. seasoned mollified with milk or softened by a drop of the crature' the like of the potato will never again be found for ‘rent-paying pig-feeding love-making child-breeding faction-fighting and country-dancing properties". WIlde father of Oscar was a polymath - a doctor census taker folklorist and social commentator. He represents as does this essay a conundrum. He sympathized with the Irish peasantry could see many of their troubles with clarity collected huge amounts of medical data on their suffering yet supported the insupportable English response to the famine. Even this essay filled with admiring prose for the people and culture essentially blames the starving masses for their problems - a lack of imagination culinary ingenuity stupid reliance on the bounty of the potato etc etc. Though while suggesting that the Irish have little imagination or knowledge gastronomically he does mention an impressive number of ways that potato is served. He even comes to the to call it paternalistic is to do an injustice to the concept of paternalism conclusion that " ‘Irish agriculture has been greatly benefited by the famine." An essay filled with interesting dietary anecdotes fine prose insane conclusions erudite observations and condescending digressions. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: CAT000810. hardcover
184081636Dublin: William Curry Jun. And Company. 1840. 2 volumes vol Ipp xvi 464 & vol II pp viii 495 frontis both vols water stained to verso text ills new endpapers both vols signed R. Hoddle Surveyor-General of Victoria top of t.p. both well recased half calf with green cloth maroon title pieces darker stain to front cloth vol I. Sir William Robert Wills Wilde was an Irish surgeon author and also the father of Oscar Wilde. Account of his travels as medical attendant to Robert Meilklam. Half calf. William Curry, Jun. And Company unknown
184051206Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Company; London: Longman Orme Browne and Co. 1840. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. xiv 464; viii 495 1 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands gilt lettered maroon labels 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces 2 plans Tyre and Jerusalem and 2 plates skulls plus numerous illustrations in the text. Some mostly light wear to the covers slight staining to the frontispieces some leaves proud towards the front of volume II though still firmly attached a decent set overall. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Longman, Orme, Browne and Co. unknown
1840000202Dublin: William CurryJunand Co Longman OrmeBrowne and Company London 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Not called for>. Two Volumes.Original boards rebacked.New end papers. Boards and spine unevenly sunned. A tight firm set. Light sporadic foxing spots. Frontispiece Vol 1 The Yacht "Crusader" Frontispiece Vol 2 "Telmessus" from a sketch by R.Meiklam.Wilde a medical student was hired to accompany Robert Meiklam on his yacht "Crusader" " In September 1837 my friends Sir Henry Marsh and Professor Graves proposed that I should accompany as medical attendant a gentleman who was about to make a voyage for the benefit of his health. Anxiety to see the World coupled with the fact of my health then being in a precarious state induced me gladly to accept this kind offer" Contact seller regarding postage. <br/> <br/> William Curry,Jun,and Co, Longman, Orme,Browne and Company, London hardcover
