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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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