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1907111362London and Paris: Methuen Charles Carrington 1907-22. The works of Oscar Wilde bound in the original cloth one of 1000 sets made on handmade paper. Octavo 14 volumes original cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt top edges gilt. One of 1000 sets of this edition on handmade paper. In near fine condition. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright novelist essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray his plays as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Methuen Charles Carrington hardcover books
19091507209Lamb 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 20.2cm a handsome quarter-leather set of 14 books number 338 of 1000 numbered sets with the sunflower motif in gilt on the spine of each volume. various paginations c.4800pp. with 62 plates including 14 photogravure frontis plates with captioned tissue guards. A brilliant set of Oscar Wilde's Collected Works. It including: Salome; The Duchess of Padua; VeraLady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Intentions;A House of Pomegranates; The Happy Prince; De Profundus; Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Poems in Prose; Poems; Epigrams; Essays & Stories by Lady Wilde Speranza; Essays Criticisms and Reviews. Also included is "His Life with a Critical Estimate of HisWriting". Not included is What Never Dies. The illustrations in "Salome" are by Aubrey Beardsley. Lamb hardcover books
19253828New York: Gabriel Wells 1925. Limited to 575 numbered copies this set being number 179. Twelve octavo volumes 221 x 143 mm. Handsomely bound by Stikeman & Co. N.Y. ca. 1925 stamp-signed in black on front endpapers. Full dark green crushed morocco covers decoratively bordered and tooled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Red and green liners elaborately bordered and lettered in gilt red moire silk end- leaves top edge gilt others uncut. Spines uniformly faded to olive green small circular stain on front board of volume one. Title pages printed in pale blue and black each carrying a profile portrait of Wilde in pale blue. A Near Fine set.<br/><br/>The handsomely produced Large Paper Edition was put out by the celebrated New York bookseller Gabriel Wells who during the 1920s competed in the sale rooms with the great A.S.W. Rosenbach 1876-1952. It includes introductory material by several literary luminaries including W. B. Yeats The Happy Prince Padraic Colum Criticisms and Reviews John Drinkwater The Importance of Being Ernest/An Ideal Husband Arthur Symons Salome and Wilde's one-time lover Richard Le Gallienne Poems. Gabriel Wells unknown books
190714010001A.R. Keller & Co 1907. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Essays and Stories Uniform Edition A.R. Keller & Co. 1907. A very good 14 volume set quarter leather bound with marbled paper covered boards leather corners and gilt pinstripe detailing. Gilt ruled and ribbed spine. Limited to 800 numbered sets this being number 420. Moderate edgewear. A handsome set. A.R. Keller & Co hardcover books
1962279530New York: Macmillan 1962. First edition. Introduction by John Updike. Illustrated by Sandro Nardini and Enrico Bagnoli. Folio. Glossy boards. Fine. Macmillan unknown books
1902224721Paris Privately Printed 1902. 1902. First edition. Small 8vo. Foreword. Original gilt stamped vellum stamped in black; top edge stained red uncut slight rubbing. Very good. One of 500 unnumbered copies "for private circulation." Translated by Oscar Wilde. F. Hardcover. Paris, Privately Printed, 1902. hardcover books
19104267Minden: J.C.C. Bruns 1910. First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Original red velvet over flexible boards gilt lettering and ruling on cover. A scarce edition of Wilde's famed "Ballad of Reading Gaol."Superb color pictorial Seccessionist style endpapers. Very good. <br/><br/> J.C.C. Bruns hardcover books
19333795Praha: Symposion 1933. Original gilt decorated dark violet mottled calf violet endpapers. #28 of 300 copies of an unusual Prague printing in attractive design binding. Spine rubbed very good. <br/><br/> Symposion unknown books
18782178Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrappers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page. and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize Oxford's top award for poetry dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year as was common with many of the early prize winners and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary the finest we have seen with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners very slight barely detectable browning to covers else extremely clean and bright. Extremely scarce in this condition. 16pp. <br/><br/> Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
19444265London: The Unicorn Press 1944. First edition thus. First edition thus. Beige and brown two-tone cloth. A scarce minor editiion. <br/><br/> The Unicorn Press hardcover books
1906264810London: Privately Printed Leonard Smithers 1906. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. Printed tan wrappers. Fine in custom red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition one of 400 copies. 20 2 pp. 8vo. The penultimate Smithers publication our copy with the "Shelley" bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. Mason 626; BAL 21346 Whistler; Nelson 1906.3 Privately Printed [Leonard Smithers] unknown books
190767715Edition De Luxe One of 200 Copies With Plates in Two States WILDE Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. Illustrated. London: A. R. Keller & Co. 1907. Edition de Luxe of the Uniform Edition. One of 200 numbered copies of which this is number 14. Complete in fifteen octavo volumes. Measures 7 1/4 x 5 in. Illustrated in black and white with plates in two states each with a descriptive tissue guard. Title and limitation pages on Japanese vellum printed in black and red with additional engraved title pages in each volume. Finely bound in modern full green levant morocco. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with a red morocco gilt floral inlay four raised bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers. A fine set. This very early edition precedes the 1908 Ross edition of Wilde's works often described as the first collected edition. HBS 67715. $11500 A. R. Keller & Co. hardcover books
19931330603New York: Henry Holt and Company 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine blue with gold print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and orange paper to boards clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 183 pages frontispiece illustrated color. 1330603. FP New Rockville Stock. Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
1947202108Los Angeles: Homer H. Boelter 1947. Magazine. 16p. 9x12 inches illustrations photos biographies story of the play very good theatrical program in stapled pictorial wraps with mild toning to white covers Cecil Beaton costume sketch on covers. Starred Skinner and Estelle Winwood with designs by Beaton. Homer H. Boelter unknown books
1982153425New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1982. Hardcover. 488p. 9x11.25 inches introduction further reading index illustrations very good first US edition in cloth and sunned price-clipped dj. Clarkson N. Potter hardcover books
1982144271New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1982. Hardcover. 488p. 9x11.25 inches introduction further reading index illustrations lightly browned text-block very good first US edition in cloth and sunned unclipped dj. Clarkson N. Potter hardcover books
1891WRCLIT75377New York: The Humboldt Publishing Company 1891. 48pp. plus 4ff of adverts. Large octavo. Printed self-wrappers. Uniform tanning diagonal crease across lower forecorner of rear wrapper and adverts minute loss at toe of spine neat repair at crown; a very good copy of this characteristically fragile pamphlet. First US printing in this format published as HUMBOLDT LIBRARY OF SCIENCE No. 147 in company with Morris's "The Socialist Ideal - Art" and Owen's "The Coming Solidarity." Wilde's essay is featured as the wrapper- title. The essay first appeared in British and US editions of THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW in February 1891. The first UK edition in book form appeared 'privately' in an edition of fifty copies in 1895. Not in Mason/Millard. Uncommon in wrappers. The Humboldt Publishing Company unknown books
189923048ELondon: Leonard Smithers & Co 1899. First Edition. Number 298 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Square quarto. Bound in original lavender cloth with gilt lettering at the spine and gilt decorative designs by Charles Shannon at the outer edges of the boards and the spine. A lovely copy with a trace of foxing a minor bump to the top corner of the front board some slight browning to the endpapers and very minor edgewear. From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.†Leonard Smithers & Co hardcover books
1938149627Buenos Aires: Leoplán 1938. Magazine. 162p. 8.5x11.25 inches text in Spanish illustrations photos ads 20p. Spanish translation of the Wilde play "Lady Windermer's Fan" noted on cover eight illustrations in the text in large spot-color vignettes by Raúl V. Martinez wraps edgeworn with a small chip of the upper front right corner. Argentine magazine from the 1930s with a special feature printing the complete Wilde play in Spanish as well as "La Vida Victoriosa" by Carlos Alberto Leumann. Leoplán unknown books
2000255794New York: St. Martin's Press 2000. Hardcover. xiv 353p. preface overture epilogue notes bibliography index glossy b&w photo section very good first edition first printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
198045348New York: St. Martin's Press 1980. Hardcover. xvi 238p. very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1976249645Norwalk CT: Heritage Press 1976. Hardcover. xiii 313p. introduction color plates very good in red cloth boards gilt and slightly-worn red slipcase Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Heritage Press hardcover books
190530061East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1905. 1st edition thus McKenna 109. Limp deep wine-red suede binding with yapp edges & title gilt stamped to leather square to front board. Red silk moire paste-downs. VG avg wear. 59 3 pp. Text printed in red & black. 8-3/8" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/> The Roycrofters hardcover books
196631424Princeton: Princeton University Library 1966. 1st printing. Marbled paper wrappers with printed paper title label to front wrapper. A VG copy. 65 1 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/> Princeton University Library unknown books
1882314013Philadelphia: Russell & Creamer 1882. First edition. With fine partly colored caricature folding map of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and environs; numerous illustrations in text. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt with publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. Rubbed minor staining to boards upper wrapper chipped at upper corner with small loss possibly to presentation "Mrs Jas. H. Allen. Book label offsetting to front free end paper. Very good. First edition. With fine partly colored caricature folding map of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and environs; numerous illustrations in text. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "The 'Wilde' Æsthetes of 1882". One of the rarest of this series of privately printed volumes produced by this Philadelphia sporting club and an unusual demonstration of the popularity of Oscar Wilde during his American tour of 1882. The verso of the title page includes a list of the 22 members of the cruise "The 'Wilde' Æsthetes of 1882" with the title in a floral heading giving them all first names of flowers and Wildean associations including: <br/>Sunflower SMITH Oscar's first love too poetical .<br/>Mignonette MOUSLEY Oscar's twin brother too fat for a Porpoise.<br/>Rhododendron RAUCH Oscar's great-aunt too much 'poke.'<br/>Woodbine WEHN Oscar's little sister too awfully nice.<br/>Petunia PACKARD Oscar's maid too much of a masher.<br/><br/>With the ticket of J.L. Smith 27 S. Sixth St. Philadelphia Please Acknowledge Receipt on front wrapper. "Sunflower" Smith who heads the crew list was a Philadelphia map publisher<br/><br/>Clifford P. "Arbutus" Allen is described as the loggist; and Herbert S. "Petunia" Packard as the artist. Allen b. 1841 was the regular scribe for the club's annual fishing cruises.<br/><br/>RARE. Wetzel p. 199; Bruns W83; Library of John M. Schiff Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1990 lot 132 this copy; not in Heller. Provenance: Mortimer L. Schiff with his bookplate Russell & Creamer unknown books
