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190211348THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL Alfred Bartlett 1902 an early American edition wear and chipping to the spine and lower fore edge corner tips else a good copy with vg contents. 1/550 copies of this unauthorized edition. This copy bears the bookplate of Michigan politician Thomas Weadock on the f.p.d. whose collection of Napoleona was at one time second to none. Alfred Bartlett unknown
190430594Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. Limited edition 16mo pp. 6 33 2; title-page vignette printed in red; original gray cloth paper-covered boards printed paper spine and cover labels printed in red and black plain paper wrapper chipped with a fairly large ink stain joints and hinges cracked internally fine. Thomas B. Mosher unknown
1937ILDeWILD2New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Barbor Press 1937. 1937. 4to. pp. 1 p.l. 42. 8 lithographed plates incl. frontis. roan rubbed spinal extremities chipped. in a defective slipcase. New York: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Barbor Press, 1937. unknown
1937012329New York: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a few mild scratches. Zhenya Gay. Quarto 7-1/2" x 11" bound in full granite-gray sheepskin leather embossed to resemble a jail cell wall; 76 pages. Copy #1205 of 1500 illustrated with 8 full-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Zhenya Gay and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the more unusual bindings of the press rarely found in such nice condition as the spine is often badly rubbed or worse <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover
192406190New York: H.S. Nichols' Precious Tomes 1924. Full-Leather. Fine. Frontispiece photo of Wilde with facsimile signature. Reprinted from 1898 second edition Foreword by H. S. Nichols. Small book smooth black leather with very bright gilt to both sides and spine all edges gilt very tiny nick at spine bottom right in box appears to be signed by publisher. Near Very Fine/Very Fine. <br/> <br/> H.S. Nichols' Precious Tomes hardcover
193014400092903NY: E.P. Dutton 1930. Blue boards and black cloth back. Cover edges sunned corners bumped & well rubbed extremities lightly rubbed: VG/no dj Previous owner's name on endpaper. 8vo. Illustrated with "conceptions" by John Vassos. E.P. Dutton hardcover
1948A106830London: Castle Press 1948. 1st edition. Near Fine. tall octavo. hardback with dust jacket 63pp. b/w illusts. Lovely copy tight bright & fine in a near fine dust jacket with only tiny chips & one closed tear. Scarce in hardback especially in this condition Castle Press hardcover
19471000009London: Castle Press 1947 First edition thus. Cloth. Octavo. Black and white illustratioins. Very good in dust jacket with several chips around the edges and a couple of short tears. The illustrations are grim and excellent. The illustrator contributes an introduction. Castle Press, hardcover
197990504New York: Viking Press 1979. First Printing this edition Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Leonard Lubin. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 65 inches. 6 58 pages. The illustrated dust jacket has wear tears soiling and chips. A grotesque dwarf falls in love with the beautiful Infanta. Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish author poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is regarded by many as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890 his epigrams plays and bedtime stories for children. Leonard B. Lubin 1943-1994 was an artist who worked prominently in children's books illustrating such titles as The Perfect Peach by Stephen Schwartz 1982 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp 1982 Sing a Song of Sixpence 1987 Christmas Gift-Bringers 1989 and the second and third books in the Rats of NIMH series by Jane Leslie Conly. It was the birthday of the Infanta. She was just twelve years of age and the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace. Although she was a real Princess and the Infanta of Spain she had only one birthday every year just like the children of quite poor people so it was naturally a matter of great importance to the whole country that she should have a really fine day for the occasion. And a really fine day it certainly was. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is a historical fiction short story for children by the Irish author Oscar Wilde. It was first published in the 1891 anthology House of Pomegranates which also includes "The Young King' "The Fisherman and his Soul" and "The Star-Child". The action of "The Birthday of the Infanta" takes place in Spain at an unspecified point in the past. It is the twelfth birthday of the Infanta the only daughter and only child of the King of Spain. For her entertainment an ugly young dwarf dancer is brought to the court. The Dwarf is completely unaware of how hideous he looks and does not realize that the reason that others laugh in his presence is because they are mocking his appearance. When the Dwarf sees his own reflection for the first time in his life the consequences are severe. Viking Press hardcover
1928191171Paris: The Black Sun Press; Éditions Narcisse. 1928. the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace Limited edition number 5 of 100 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper from a total edition of 113 copies. Alastair's illustrations take inspiration from Aubrey Beardsley and "combine decorative elegance with a fascination with the perverse sinister and satanic" Peppin p. 311. Wilde's short story was first published in the 1891 collection House of Pomegranates. Quarto. Frontispiece and 8 plates printed in black and brown with tissue guards illustrations in the text. Title and page numbers printed in red. Original cream wrappers front cover lettered and ruled in black and red rear cover with red central vignette and black rule border edges uncut. With original glassine jacket. Housed in original silver paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase additionally housed in custom black cloth slipcase. Bookplate of Wilde collector Jeremy J. Mason. Minor wear to spine ends couple spots to covers and contents near-fine; glassine with long split at front fold other shorter tears chemise and slipcase with rubbing and wear with partial splits and repairs to chemise inner hinges very good. Minkoff A13a. Brigid Peppin Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century 1984. hardcover
192973711New York:: Macmillan 1929. First edition; No. 127 of 500 copies signed by Pamela Bianco. publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards t.e.g. Slight use at edges of boards; contents fine; tight and sound. 8vo. With Drawings by Pamela Bianco. Macmillan, hardcover
1905053137Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1905. Limited . Paper Back. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 51pp.; SC string-bound; white w/blk.&red; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spine darkened w/tape repair; plastic wrap taped to covers w/tape residue; pages tanned but clean&tight. 1st ed.of 1st separate publication. one of 425 copies. <br/> <br/> Thomas B. Mosher unknown
19286248Paris: Black Sun Press / Editions Narcisse 1928. Limited Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Quarto 30pp. illustrated. A quite crisp clean copy near fine with some scrunching to the the front interior fold of the glassine dust jacket else a very nice indeed with just a hint of scattered foxing. In the original silver chemise and slipcase. The chemise is in near fine condition with a modest marginal stain and the slipcase is missing one thin side panel thus good only. An entirely unrestored copy of this beautiful publication. An errata slip is apparently called for but none is present in this copy. This is number 26 of 100 limited copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper of a total limitation of 113. Black Sun Press / Editions Narcisse unknown
1929030720New York NY: The MacMillan Company 1929. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Blanco Pamela. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 457. Old water stain has discolored the boards. The interior and pages are clean. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. <br/> <br/> The MacMillan Company hardcover
1928biblio257 box 4<p>Cream colored wraps encased in original silver chemise and silver slipcase. Glassine dustjacket over wraps is worn at front edge otherwise complete. Frontis and eight full page illustrations and two illustrations in text by Alastair Baron Hans Henning Voigt all present. Three page Foreword by publisher Harry Crosby. This is Exemplaire copy number 40 of 100 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen paper. Colophon states there were 13 additional copies 9 lettered A to I and four numbered I to IV. Small Errata slip bound in at colophon. Included is a rare postcard sized Black Sun Press Editions Narcisse advertisement or prospectus in red and black listing the five books available including this one and three others "in preparation". Attractive book plate of Francis E. Bliss on inside of front wrap. Slipcase is worn and split at top and bottom and has been repaired with tape on the top. Chemise slightly rubbed. Four illustration tissues missing. Book is fine. </p> Black Sun Press paperback
1929236786New York: Macmillan 1929. First edition thus limited issue. Number 484 of 500 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout with line and colored drawings by Pamela Bianco. 58 2 pp. 1 vols. Gilt cloth and boards t.e.g. Frontispiece plates and decorations. Very good spine slightly sunned. Bianco Pamela. First edition thus limited issue. Number 484 of 500 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout with line and colored drawings by Pamela Bianco. 58 2 pp. 1 vols. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
20001-0198119607Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 2000. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 368 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand hardcover
2000Alibris.0016517Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Library stamps blacked out along textblock edges. Library labels and card pocket. Complete Works Oscar Wilde; Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Audience: Professional and scholarly. . Oxford University Press hardcover
190851952London: Methuen & Co 1908. vellum. Very good. Octavo Incomplete set. Five of the Fourteen volumes issued in the first collected edition. This is the very scarce vellum edition printed on Japanese vellum and bound in limp vellum gilt titled. Titles are as follows "The Duchess of Padua" "Lady Windermere's Fan" "Miscellanies" "Reviews" "Salome A Florentine Tragedy and Vera". Very good in limp vellum withlight foxing to the exterior. Bookplate in each. One of 80 sets bound in vellum Mason p460. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover
1909372173New York: The Pearson Publishing Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Spines are faded. The spines of a couple volumes slight foxing one has a stain. Spine labels are browned one has edge wear one is partly loose. One volume has light wear to the top spine end. ; In eight volumes. Set #273 of 1000. . The Pearson Publishing Co. hardcover
1923360841Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy attractive tightly bound in hardcover format a particularly nice-looking set of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde being twelve 12 volumes complete in the Patrons' Edition De Luxe edition. The author Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 and died on 30 November 1900 and turned into an important and popular author poet and playwright author of a wildly important Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray eventually also an in-demand dramatist of the first rank. He suffered a criminal conviction in 1895 "for gross indecency for homosexual acts" and suffered greatly in the Reading Gaol Wikipedia about which he wrote compellingly. The set is from the personal library of Jane Devereux Henderson as printed on the half-title surely by the publisher in an ornate brown font see below. All but the first volume feature the name "Jane Henderson Baumann" at first free endpaper in pencil in the same hand but currently of unknown provenance. Generally clean unmarked of interiors lightly toned at worst minimal rubbing to extremities faint cracking to a couple of joint bottoms noted below else attractive and sturdy. Bound simply handsomely in blue paper over boards grayish-blue cloth-backed and gilt ruling between paper and cloth both front and rear. Rubbed and lightly abraded printed paper labels to spine. Light bumping to spine heads and feet here and there all volumes with deckled fore-edges and all top-edges gilt. Volume I Poems Introduced by Richard Le Gallienne liv 2 1-350 pp.; Volume II with Introduction to "The Duchess of Padua" by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson frontis matter 5-342 pp.; Volume III The Happy Prince and other fairy tales Introduced by W.B. Yeats xvi 2 1-261 pp. with cracking to rear joint and owner's bookplate inside front flap; Volume IV The Picture of Dorian Gray Introduction by Coulson Kernahan and a review by Walter Pater xxix 1 5-406 pp.; Volume V Intentions with an Introduction by Edgar Saltus xvii 2 7-286 pp.; Volume VI Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; the Portrait of Mr. W.H. and other stories with Introductions by Richard Butler Glaenzer and Dr. Clifford Smyth xviii 1 3-303 pp.; Volume VII Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance with an Introduction by A.B. Walkley xiv 4 9-331 pp.; Volume VIII The Importance of Being Earnest; An Ideal Husband with an Introduction by John Drinkwater xiv 4 5-412 pp. with slight cracking to bottom of rear joint; Volume IX Salome and other plays with an Introduction by Arthur Symons xxvi 3 1-228 pp. with cracking to rear pastedown scuffing to rear upper tip plus also a penciled note at rear final endpaper being two lines "All day long like a symmetrical line your practice-like presence like breath"; Volume X The Soul of Man Under Socialism and other Essays with an Introduction by John Cowper Powys xxi 1 1-215 pp. with slight bumping to bottom front tip light scuffing to rear bottom tip; Volume XI De Profundis; Lectures and Essays with Introduction by Michael Monahan and W.F. Morse xlvi 1 1-190 pp. with scuffing to tips abrasions to paper labels and an inked mark to front cover smudge inside rear flap; Volume XII Criticisms and Reviews with an Introduction by Padraic Colum xvii 1-500 pp. with slight staining to paper label. Jane Henderson Baumann was born Jane Devereux Henderson and was sometimes referred to as "Jennie" as a child her older brother being Daniel H. Henderson 1890-1933 and Belle G. Henderson later Belle Henderson Ferris 1894-1985 being her younger sister entry regarding the owner on the archives dot newmexicoculturalaffairs dot org web-site. The truly massive archive spanning 12000 items including transcribed and audio-recorded letters is available in Santa Fe New Mexico as presided over curated and made available by https://archives dot newmexicoculture dot org/solr-search/content/gridsearch_api_fulltext=Jane%20Henderson%20Baumann&field_ancestors=. Her husband Gustave Baumann June 27 1881 – October 8 1971 "was an American printmaker and painter and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America" and whose works were shown for decades at "the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the New Mexico Museum of Art" Wikipedia. Baumann also gained prominence in the 1930s insofar as he was the "Area Coordinator" of the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration Wikipedia. Jane Devereaux Henderson married him on June 25 1925; she bore a daughter Ann on July 31 1927. Ann donated the archive in 2021 and there is a major Baumann family exhibit coming up soon. Jane Devereaux Henderson/Jane Henderson Baumann was a major lover of and student regarding Native Southwest peoples arts and cultures. There is a full photographic record of her and other family members including letters and portraits and even recorded audio letters to and fro.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1927000015986New York: Wm. H. Wise & Company 1927. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination please inquire. Brown cloth with a paper label printed in brown and green on each spine; orange topstain. Title pages printed in orange and black. Volume one with a tipped-in leaf stating this set of the Connoisseur's edition of the complete works of Oscar Wilde was specially prepared for Harry N. Jones. With introductions by various hands including Yeats Drinkwater Cowper Powys and a review by Walter Pater in volume four. The first set of Wilde's complete works was done in 1908 this later set is a lovely production of the wit's poems plays and prose. Light foxing to the topstains four volumes with a bit of rubbing to their cloth a small red spot on volume twelve's bottom textblock; jackets with light chipping heavier on volume one the jacket of volume two with two pieces of tape on its reverse. Wm. H. Wise & Company hardcover
1989Q-1851520252Chancellor Press 1989-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Chancellor Press hardcover
2000Q-185152102xChancellor Press 2000-05-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Chancellor Press hardcover
1923021485Garden City NY: Doubleday Page. 12 vols. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. Nicely designed set with green paper boards grey spines and white spine labels. Spines of all volumes are sun-darkened to brown. Vol. 1: Slight corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at head of spine. Vol. 2: Slight wear at head of Spine Very Good in Good Dust Jacket with half dollar-size chip at head of spine. Vol. 3: Tiny corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at head and foot of spine and a small edge tear. Vol. 4: Small corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at the head of the spine and a tiny corner tear. Vol. 5: Four bumps on back cover one-inch area of slight loss at top edge of back cover Good in Good Dust Jacket with slight sun fading on the front cover a three-inch tear along the spine edge and three small chips. Vol. 6: Two very small chips at the foot of the spine Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket with four small chips on the spine and a small edge tear. Vol. 7: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with s slight line of stain along one spine edge. Vol. 8: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with three very small chips on the spine edge. Vol. 9: Three small edge bumps and a tiny corner area of loss Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket with a large corner area of loss on the front cover front cover smudging and three chips on the spine. Vol. 10: Small corner chip and tear Good in Good Dust Jacket with half-inch loss at the head of the spine and a tear across the spine. Vol. 11: Slight wear at head of spine Very Good Plus in Very Good Dust Jacket with few very small edge chips. Vol. 12: Small corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with some spots of offset on the front cover a small stain and a tiny chip. Extra postage may be required. . Very Good; Near Fine. Hardcover. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. 1923. Doubleday, Page hardcover
