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199438960New York: Dutton 1994. Hardcover. xviii 494p. foreword chronology notes select bibliography index illustrations very good first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and dj. Dutton hardcover books
1998158286NY ST. MARTIN'S PRESS 1998 1998. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 1998 hardcover books
1986173493London: GMP Pub. Gay Men's Press 1986. Paperback. 198p. introduction note on text appendixes very good first definitive text edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay Modern Classics series. GMP Pub. Gay Men's Press paperback books
190733072Boston: Boston Evening Transcript 1907. Offprint. 12mo 18.5cm.; decorative staplebound card wrappers; 251-285pp. Wrappers somewhat toned and dust-soiled smalll faint dampstain to upper wrapper else Very Good and sound. This state not described by Horodisch who notes two additional cover states: "Read the Greatest Tragical Poem in Literature The Ballad of Reading Gaol By Oscar Wilde" and another with a Chicago Holdaway imprint. Offprint from Vol. 13 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Boston Evening Transcript unknown books
18982708London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition. Fine. One of 800 copies on handmade Van Gelder paper. A Fine copy without the fading or soiling typical of this book. Pages unopened. Housed in a custom case and chemise. Wilde's later work based on his two years hard labor at Reading Gaol for "gross indecency." Published under the pseudonym "C. 3. 3." for his cell block because the publisher feared having his name on the work would adversely affect sales. <br/><br/>The poem is based on a fellow inmate convicted of murdering his wife and generated one of the great lines from Wilde "Yet each man kills the thing he loves." Wilde continued to revise his plays until his death in 1900 but said that he had lost the joy of writing and would write no other new works. An excellent copy housed in a handsome slipcase with chemise. Fine. Leonard Smithers unknown books
199814415London: Primrose Academy 1998. Skargon Yvonne. Quarter cloth with a paper printed in a repeating pattern of two of the artist's cats covering the boards. Illustrated with a plethora of engravings of cats can you really ever have too many cats. Signed by Yvonne Skargon the wood engraver designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press slipcase. Copy number 59. Unnumbered pages.A charming book displaying three cats in assorted poses activities and places. The engravings are accompanied by apt quotes from Wilde and Johnson cat lovers both. Both collections were individually printed to great popularity years ago. This is the first combined edition and the first printing with the illustrations printed from the original wood blocks. Primrose Academy hardcover books
1973159525Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1973. Hardcover. G Ex-art library with label mark on front cover; rear pocket; few marks; otherwise clean. Brown leather with gilt letters on spine gilt decorations on both covers gilt edges all around; 52 colored pp. printed in doubled Japanese fashion; color illus. A special edition of this story penned by French author Oscar Wilde after the biblical tale of Salome and the seven veils. Translated by Lord Alfred Douglas with introduction by Holbrook Jackson and primary color illustrations rendered by Valenti Angelo. The Easton Press hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
19262221753<p>ONE OF 105 SPECIAL COPIES INSCRIBED</p><p>First edition. 10 1/4" x 8". 16 illustrations and facsimiles. Original tan linen over yellow boards light soiling. Spine label. No dust jacket. Very good. 140 pages. Scarce.</p><p>Over 329 items plus A items. Includes many listings for items not mentioned in Stuart Mason's Bibliography.</p><p>Copy #32. Inscribed November 1928: "Mrs. Burns Habner with kind regards from the publishers."</p><p>Printed by R. & R. Clark Limited Edinburgh.</p> Dulau & Company Limited hardcover books
19302221855<p>Octavo. Illustrated with 16 full page b/w illustrations by Ben Kutcher. 10 page introduction by H. L. Mencken. Pictorial endpapers also by Kutcher. Original gilt stamped pictorial cloth with variant designs on front and back covers top edge stained red. Dust jacket with designs that replicates stamping on front and rear cover price clipped; small chips; short tears. Very good 180 pages. Scarce in dust jacket.</p><p>Scarce in dust jacket.</p><p>Printed by The Quinn and Boden Company.</p><p>Adler page 24 noting 1918 1925 printings with various publishers.</p> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1891WRCLIT69505London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine 1891. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened with some pale discolorations at edge 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank corners a trifle worn the plates by Shannon somewhat faded as usual but still legible a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good sound copy a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL Christmas Number 1888 "The Birthday of the Infanta" which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ March 30 1889 "The Fisherman and His Soul" and "The Star- Child." Because of its physical construction a book very difficult to find in agreeable condition. MASON/MILLARD 347. James R. Osgood McIlvaine hardcover books
189422263London: John Lane 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end dated March 1894 Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled spine extremities creased binding tight; a reasonably sound copy. John Lane hardcover books
1894282902London: John Lane 1894. Limited. hardcover. very good. Tall 8vo lavender cloth faded to tan with gilt designs considerably browned on the spine and edges; pages untrimmed London: John Lane 1894. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Mason 365. One of only 50 copies printed simultaneously with the first trade edition. Internally fine and clean.<br/><br/> John Lane unknown books
