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19305341London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head; Dodd Mead & Co. 1930. Large paper. hard cover. Very Good/The last of the John Lane "Bodley Head" editions of the classic collaboration between Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Lane was the first English publisher of the work in 1894 but it was dropped after the 1930 edition as Allen Lane John's nephew transformed the houseinto the more mainstream Penguin Books. This is the large paper quarto version the book also appeared in a smaller octavo format. Despite the detailed list of defects this is an unusually well-preserved copy. Quarto 26cm; xviii 65 pages 16 leaves of plates. Bound in original red cloth stamped in blind with Aubrey Beardsley poppy design . Original dust jacket with the same design in red on a tan ground. Dust jacket mildly frayed at spine ends corners and top edge with a closed tear on the upper panel repaired with cello tape and a closed tear on the lower panel without intervention yet unusually sound and entire. Cloth about fine. Scattered light foxing in text. John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover books
1997UWILWIT00EFFolio Society 1997. Fine. Wilde Oscar. The Wit of Oscar Wilde. Beck illustrator Ian Archie. London: Folio Society 1997. 237pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Fine. Slipcase is in near fine condition with a few faint scuffs. Folio Society unknown books
18997426New York: Benj. R. Tucker; Blumenberg Press 1899. Duodecimo 18.5 x 13.5 cm. 8 44 pages. Second American Edition. Preceded by the Brentano's edition circa 1898 though often considered the first American edition. This edition was published in two states the first in which the text appears on rectos only and some leaves are untrimmed; in the second the text is printed on rectos and versos: "Both editions that printed on one side and that printed on both sides are from the same type. It is therefore clear that they are not two independent editions but the one-side issue constitutes merely a kind of de-luxe variety while the two-sided is a cheaper popular version of the same edition" Horodisch pages 76-77. This copy comports with the first state with text printed one side only. A printer's binder's issue is extant as at least one leaf is hinged at the top edge. Is it possible that what Horodisch thought a deluxe issue is merely error some of which made it to the wild Issued by Benjamin R. Tucker the noted anarchist publisher and editor of the journal Liberty in which Tucker published the essay "The Criminal Jailers of Oscar Wilde" in 1895. Tucker and Emma Goldman were two of the few Americans to publicly defend Wilde during his trial George Haggerty Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures 2013 page 52. In publisher's two-toned cloth white over blue upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt unadorned spine. Some minor shelf wear white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text old ink spot affecting first few leaves else interior fine. Very Good and sound overall. Benj. R. Tucker; Blumenberg Press hardcover books
19381332327Paris: The Limited Editions Club 1938. 1220/1500. Softcover. Large Thin Octavo; pp 71; G/paperback; black spine with silver text; signed limited numbered copies for the Limited Editions Club; no. 1220 of 1500; covers have slight rubbing wear to exterior; few chips to edges; intact panels; text block exterior edges mildly toned; deckled edges; some offset toning to endpapers; illustrated; text in French; signed by illustrator. 1332327. FP New Rockville Stock. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
19452312096New York: The Heritage Press 1945. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Angelo Valenti. Includes Sandglass No. 5J. A very good copy ina good slipcase. Base of slipcase loosening slipcase board edges rubbed. Faintly musty spine lightly toned. 1945 Hard Cover. 51 pp. 8vo. Translated from the French by Lord Alfred Douglas with a new introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Decorated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Originally published in 1891 in French and first translated into English in 1894. Oscar Wilde tells the tragic Biblical story of Salome in one act. An abridged version of the text was used for Richard Strauss's early 20th century opera. Despite initial ridicule by critics it eventually became accepted as a crowning work of the Aesthetic movement. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1910140940357Paris: Charles Carrington 1910. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. 312 pp. with publisher's tipped-in slip announcing delay and frontispiece. Original white three-quarter faux vellum over gray boards with gilt ruling and spine lettering. Very Good with dampstaining to foot toning to head contents generally bright and in nicer shape. In a serviceable example of the rare original jacket chipped at head 2" and tail small closed tear to top of front panel rubbed along edges toning and dampstaining to spine. Oscar Wilde's classic Gothic horror tale with full-page wood engravings by Eugene Dété from drawings by Paul Thiriat each with a tissue guard titled in crimson. Charles Carrington unknown books
1973UWILIMP00AFLimited Editions Club 1973. Very Good. Wilde Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan. Gielgud Introduction John; Walton Illustrator Tony. London: Limited Editions Club 1973. #915 of 1500. 125 114pp. Illustrated. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decor. Book condition: Very good with a few early pages wavy from moisture exposure. Faintly bumped spine ends. Very good slipcase with paper on one panel wavy from moisture exposure. Signed by Walton on limitation page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1954192985Collins 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954 Collins edition. Dark blue imitation leather cover and binding has minor wear. Front pastedown has tape removal scarring and front endpaper has a name in red pen. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blue textured paperboard slipcase has moderate wear. LO Collins hardcover books
19629009287New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket has chips and closed tears to the extremities. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover books
1930017128New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1930. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. 124 pages. Original hardcover binding; cloth spine is lightly to moderately rubbed on the extremities. The blue-grey paper-covered boards are slightly sunned at the extremities and slightly to moderately shelfworn along the edges mostly to the corners. No dustjacket. Illustrated by John Vassos. The text is clean and unmarked. A 1930 reprint of the 1928 first edition. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Hardcover books
1923D4433Munich: O. C. Recht 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Full vellum gilt-stamped lettering in brown morocco spine label; with 60 engravings by Rudolf Schlichter each one signed by the artist. Fine in slipcase. <br/><br/>Rudolf Schlichter was one of the most important figures of the Neue Sachlichkeit New Objectivity movement a prolific illustrator and participant in Dada exhibitions. His work was seized by the Nazis as "degenerate art" and largely unseen for decades. He began exhibiting again at the war's end. O. C. Recht hardcover books
1962005780New York: MacMillan 1962. First Edition. Laminated Boards. Fine -/No Dustjacket. Nardini Sandro; Bagnoli Enrico. spine and board edges slightly faded a scratch on the back board approx 3" long top and bottom of spine a bit bumped a small adhesive mark on fep else fine no previous owner marking. MacMillan unknown books
192910135New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1929. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderate shelf/edge wear spine sunned tips through light toning to text block edges else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound black cloth spine green paper boards pale green endpapers. 8vo. 102pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>Includes sixteen full page illustrations from the imagination of John Vassos. This was the third Wilde work illustrated by renowned book illustrator and industrial designer John Vassos. This edition was limited to 200 signed and numbered copies this is copy 165. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
04564London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. I can resist anything except temptation"<br/>"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"<br/><br/>WILDE Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. <br/><br/>First edition. One of fifty large-paper copies on hand-made paper. <br/><br/>Quarto 8 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 220 x 169 mm. i blank i limitation iii-xvi 132 pp. <br/><br/>Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in and with their exhibition stamp in black on rear paste-down. Full dark green crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt enclosing a six-line gilt border. Spine with five raised bands decoratively framed and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges multi gilt-lined turn-ins top edge gilt others uncut. With the bookplates of the renowned collector C. S. Ascherson dated 1897 and Paul Louis Weiller also a famous book collector and a great friend of J. Paul Getty on front paste-down. <br/><br/>A couple of tiny and unobtrusive minor stains on blank borders otherwise an absolutely fine copy in a wonderful and early if somewhat austere binding by the great firm of Zaehnsdorf.<br/><br/>Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde first performed on Saturday 20 February 1892 at the St. James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it he invites the other woman Mrs Erlynne to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage.<br/><br/>Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde 16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900 was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays including Lady Windermere's Fan A Play About a Good Woman his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for homosexuality imprisonment and early death at age 46.<br/><br/>Mason 358. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1893 unknown books
1935301723Boston Little Brown and Company 1935. 1935. First edition. 8vo. Author's 10 page preface. Dust jacket unclipped; spine a bit darkened. Very good. 231 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1935. hardcover books
7634BOSTON LITTLE 1936. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. BOSTON, LITTLE, 1936 unknown books
194720004ENew York: Random House 1947. First Edition. Near fine copy in a slightly used dust jacket with some edge wear and small chips and tears. A comic novel featuring a mail order sleuth named P. Moran. Random House unknown books
1942408721942. WILDE Percival. TINSLEY'S BONES. NY: Random House 1942. 8vo tan cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Wilde on front endpaper: "The owner of this book has asked me to write something funny in it. I comply: Gertrude Oppenheimer. Faithfully Percival Wilde." Very Good spine slightly cocked; small stain fore-edge; small nicks & tears bit of soil d/j. $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1871WRCLIT23857Savannah: Georgia Historical Society 1871. 70pp. Gilt decorated cloth a.e.g. Light spotting to cloth else very good and bright. First edition in book form. A full examination of the question of whether Mr. Wilde's poetic products were original. Georgia Historical Society hardcover books
2004167345New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions 2004. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG. A few fingerprints visible on a couple pages against a black background otherwise this is a great clean and tight copy. SIGNED by artist. Tall; red cloth over boards with black lettering on spine. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket. 143 pp. Approx 83 color images of posters one signed with supplemental illustrations. This is one of 250 deluxe editions printed of which this is number 228 which includes a signed print. "Rafal Olbinski has expanded the definition and laid the groundwork of what an artist can be in the 21st century. Born and educated in Poland Olbinski's ties to European and American culture as well as being an exponent of classical art blurs the lines between the various disciplines of the arts by combining: painting illustration graphic design typography and stage design into poignant and memorable images that help define our culture and raise the level of aesthetics for today's and future generations." -- dj flap. Hudson Hills Press / Nahan Editions hardcover books
1967260426San Diego: Publishers Export Co./PEC 1967. Paperback. 159p. lightly-worn first printing PBO incamp pictorial wraps. Lesbian pulp fiction. French Line FL-16. "Carry was torn between the security of her husband and her love for the gorgeous Martha - a choice that almost cost her life! Publishers Export Co./PEC paperback books
193678079Dublin:: Sign of the Three Candles. Very Good. 1936. Hardcover. B00087P028 . Edited with introduction and index by Colm O Lochlainn. Fold-out map. Third edition. Some light soiling on bottom edge brief gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper else very good in pale yellow cloth with green lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 319 pages . Sign of the Three Candles, hardcover books
2000140389Greensboro: March Street Press 2000. 39p. 5.25x7.5 inches very good pictorial wraps. March Street Press unknown books
1849Embry 183467Hodges and Smith Dublin: 1849. First edition first printing. Foxing to first and last few pages short tears to spine tips spine and edges lightly sunned overall very good with hinges firm. B&W engravings. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Hodges and Smith, Dublin: 1849. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
1938043152Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles 1938. The third edition edited with introduction and index by Colm O Lochlainn. 319 1p. b/w text illus. folded map at the rear dj. At the Sign of the Three Candles unknown books
