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1903WRCLIT60493Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.7 x 26.5 cm with image size 17 x 12.5 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here it is referred to as "The Page of Herodias" in the secondary literature and kneeling figure in black before a burning censer with a barren tree and a full moon dominating the foreground and background. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60492Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.7 x 26.5 cm with image size 17 x 12.5 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here it is referred to as "Herodes" in the secondary literature and shows a heavily robed figure in large turban left profile on stairs. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60485Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.6 x 25.5 cm with image size 17.1 x 12.6 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen Marcus." Although untitled here it is referred to as "Jochanaan" in the secondary literature. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60490Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.7 x 26.7 cm with image size 17.4 x 12.5 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M. B." Although untitled here the image depicts Narraboth in right profile leaning on a pedestal or sword. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60491Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.9 x 26.5 cm with image size 17.4 x 12.5 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here the image depicts a lit candle with a heavily stylized plume of smoke partially obscuring a black moon. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60488Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.7 x 26.7 cm with image size 17.5 x 12.7 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here the image depicts Salome in left profile standing with a leashed bird attached to her left arm. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1903WRCLIT60486Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1903. Folio sheet 33.7 x 25.5 cm with image size 17.5 x 12.6 cm. Somewhat crudely matted otherwise about fine. One of an unspecified but small number of proof impressions of this illustration by Behmer for the 1903 edition of Wilde's SALOME translated by Hedwig Lachmann and published in an edition of only fifty copies on Japan vellum. Captioned in pencil beneath the image "Fuer Buchen M." Although untitled here it is the striking left profile of Herodias on his throne. Insel-Verlag hardcover books
1922WRCLIT76304Gothenburg: N. J. Gumpert 1922. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities chipped and snagged otherwise a good copy. First edition variant issue in collected form of these five essays on Wilde and associates. From an edition of 400 copies this copy is neither numbered nor signed and has a cancel pasteover obscuring the original Vienna 1921 imprint; Gumpert's imprint appears on the wrapper instead. N. J. Gumpert unknown books
1914WRCLIT57846New York: James F. Drake 1914. Boards paper label. Portrait. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies from a total edition of three hundred. Fine in chipped and torn glassine. James F. Drake hardcover books
1947WRCLIT68402Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox 1947. Six highly colorful 11 x 14" lobby cards. One card with wedge-shaped closed tear in upper right margin the remaining five a bit dusty at margins some soft creases else very good or better. A good representation of the lobby cards issued to promote the U.S. release of Lajos Biró's screen adaptation of Wilde's 1895 satirical play regarding politics character finances and perception. Alexander Korda directed and Paulette Goddard Michael Wilding Diana Wynyard Hugh Williams played the leads. Cecil Beaton designed the costumes for the Technicolor production. Thea von Harbou wrote the screenplay for the previous 1935 German language adaptation starring Brigitte Helm which was released in the U.S. a decade earlier. After a long career as screenwriter for top market costume pictures Biró died in 1947. 20th Century Fox unknown books
1966WRCLIT38503Princeton: Princeton University Library 1966. Decorated wrappers paper label. Illustrations. First edition. Edited by Charles Ryskamp. With essays by Ellmann E.D.H. Johnson and Alfred L. Bush. Near fine. Princeton University Library unknown books
1903WRCLIT76233Berlin: Gose & Tetzlaff Verlagsbuchhandlung 1903. 462pp. Decorated printed wrappers. Upper wrapper faintly soiled a couple leaves opened slightly carelessly but otherwise largely unopened very good. First edition issued as "Hefte 29" of MODERNE ESSAYS edited by Hans Landsberg. A somewhat early work by an author perhaps even more intriguing and controversial than its subject published roughly coincident with his imprisonment for debt and a few years before he fled Germany with his married mistress later "dadaist" Elsa von Freytag- Loringhoven and his eventual refashioning of himself as the prolific western Canadian novelist F.P. Grove. A translation into English was published by bookseller William Hoffer in 1984. Gose & Tetzlaff, Verlagsbuchhandlung unknown books
1954WRCLIT44621London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1954. Gilt cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition second printing. Some light wear to spine ends and fore corners of boards else very good in dust jacket that is faintly tanned with a few tiny nicks along the spine panel. Rupert Hart-Davis hardcover books
1969WRCLIT47748London: Constable 1969. Printed wrappers. Portrait and illustrations. Translated by Violet Wyndham. Uncorrected page proofs of the first British edition. utilized for advance U.S. purposes with Viking's label affixed to upper wrapper. Cream wrappers lightly dust smudged title label at lower edge else very good. Constable unknown books
1972WRCLIT63327New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1972. Two volumes. Small octavo. Illustrated. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition. Near fine without dust jacket as issued. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. unknown books
1933WRCLIT60748London: Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies 1933. Cream-white buckram t.e.g. others untrimmed. Portrait. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies signed by the author. Bookplate shadow on pastedown cloth a bit rubbed and dust-soiled otherwise a very good copy. Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies hardcover books
1947WRCLIT80515Norfolk: New Directions 1947. 12mo. Cloth. Frontis. First edition published in the "Makers of Modern Literature Series." Top edge a bit dusty otherwise a near fine copy in very good spine sunned and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p. 20. New Directions hardcover books
1947WRCLIT31135Norfolk: New Directions 1947. Cloth. Frontis. First edition. Small puncture to upper cover affecting the right edge of the first few leaves else a good copy in dust jacket with several small punctures to the upper panel. New Directions hardcover books
1991WRCLIT27509New York: St. Martin's 1991. Cloth. First edition of this whodunit based loosely on Wilde's tour of the American west. Very fine in dust jacket. St. Martin's hardcover books
1955WRCLIT30243London: Peter Davies 1955. Cloth spine gilt. First edition. Small bookplate spine gilding a bit rubbed else near fine in a lightly worn dust jacket with a soft crease to the lower panel. Peter Davies hardcover books
1938018977New York NY: Limited Editions Club 1938. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. First thus edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volume set lacking the slipcase. The volume in French is bound in thin and flexible black paper-covered boards; the top of the spine has a small chip and the covers are slightly creased as typically found; protected in archival mylar. Number 1300 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Andre Derain. Contains 10 gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process. The volume in English is sunned on the spine and top edge and contains numerous black-and-white illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Several pages have small tears at the edges where previously uncut pages were not carefully opened. There is minor soiling to page 97. Also number 1300 of 1500. First thus edition. Limited Editions Club Hardcover books
190623401Boston: John W. Luce & Company 1906. Slim 12mo 19.25cm.; original grey illustrated paper-covered boards printed in green; 636pp. Tiny paper flaw to upper cover not approaching text or illustration light shelf wear endpapers a bit foxed else Very Good or better. John W. Luce & Company unknown books
190340283London 1903 but 1906. Small 12mo 14.5cm.; publisher's side-stitched printed drab wrappers; 12pp.; head- and tail-pieces by Beardsley. Wrappers quite brittle with some shallow losses along extremities none approaching text spine edge a bit toned else Good or better internally near fine. Pirated selection of aphorisms attributed to Leonard Smithers and dated April 1906 according to MASON 603. unknown books
192046822Boston: John W. Luce & Co 1920. Reprint. Slim octavo 19cm; dark red publisher's cloth stamped in gilt front; 53pp 12 plates missing one. Boards mildly worn and soiled some rubbing to extremities; textblock toned along edges and page margins; foxing and soiling intermittent throughout; some passages marked in pencil; gift inscription on ffep. Else Very Good scarce.<br/><br/>Wilde's Salomé was published in 1891 originally in French. An English version came about in 1894 but not before a tiff over the translation work done by Lord Alfred Douglas who was Wilde's paramour at the time. This 1920 reprint retains the iconic artwork by Aubrey Beardsley and all sixteen original illustrations are listed in the index; however the plate with illustration 4 "The Woman in the Moon" is presumed missing with evidence of its loss between pgs. 6 and 7. John W. Luce & Co unknown books
19074982Leipzig: Im Inselverlag 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable/The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French in 1896 before the English and later German editions appeared. Wilde's play with Beardsley's iconic illustrations inspired Richard Strauss's opera of the same name. 25 cm; 24 leaves text on Insel hand-made paper and 15 full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan including title page and dramatis personae. Bound in original boards worn spine perished boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. Im Inselverlag hardcover books
