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1891BB17290London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Rebound in plain olive cloth leather spine label lettered in gilt. 258 pp. Title page and premilinary blanks detached. Sold as is. <br/><br/> James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. hardcover books
190721208New York: Brentano's 1907. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. 263 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Introduction by Percival Pollard. A series of essays by Wilde "Jewels of wit and paradox." Clean fresh copy. Brentano's hardcover books
1891145251891. London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co. 1891. Original yellow-green cloth decorated in gilt.<br/><br/> First Edition of this group of four essays on literature art society and criticism -- which consisted of 900 copies plus 600 printed for America with the Dodd Mead imprint. Published just a week after Wilde's only novel THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY INTENTIONS precedes all of his famous plays which came out during the span 1893-1899. In the opening essay Wilde laments the "decay of Lying as an art a science and a social pleasure." He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Émile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful he says is that it is "absolutely indifferent to fact." The next essay "Pen Pencil and Poison" is a fascinating literary appreciation of the life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright a talented painter art critic antiquarian friend of Charles Lamb and — murderer. The heart of the collection is the long two-part essay titled "The Critic as Artist." In one memorable passage after another Wilde goes to great lengths to show that the critic is every bit as much an artist as the artist himself in some cases more so. A good critic is like a virtuoso interpreter. Finally in "The Truth of Masks" Wilde returns to the theme of art as artifice and creative deception. This essay focuses on the use of masks disguises and costume in Shakespeare Goodreads. Charles Ricketts created the Fin-de-Siècle binding design and lettering -- in the same year that he also designed for the same publisher the binding of TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. This is a near-fine copy -- there is faint mottled fading that always seems to afflict this book's cloth but there is little wear other than minor rubbing at the extremities small partly-erased signature on the endpaper. INTENTIONS has become a difficult title to acquire in better condition. Mason 341. unknown books
1894WRCLIT57389New York: Dodd Mead 1894. Tan cloth lettered in dark brown. Cloth a bit soiled front inner hinge cracking light pencil notes on rear endsheets but a good copy. American issue of the second edition one of five hundred copies bound up from British sheets. This copy bears an 1897 gift inscription to bookman and future publisher Mitchell Kennerley on the first blank from an unidentified Mr. MacArthur. MASON/MILLARD 344. Dodd, Mead hardcover books
193074756NY:: Albert & Charles Boni. Very Good. 1930. Paperback. First edition thus paperback. Age toning else very good in illustrated wraps.; 263 pages . Albert & Charles Boni, paperback books
48524Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY: Dodd Mead & Co. no date. 258 pages hardbound. Ex-library with usual markings chipping to the first few pages and heavy staining/soil to the tight red cloth binding. Reading copy only. . Other hardcover books
1904042776Portland: Thomas Mosher 1904. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. A bit of rubbing at the joints spine darkened discoloration from bookplate adhesive on endpapers. Otherwise an attractive and nicely printed edition. One of 600. Hatch 286. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 042776. <br/><br/> Thomas Mosher hardcover books
1975159700London: British Museum Publications / The Trustees of the British Museum 1975. Reprinted. Hardcover. G DJ is well faded on spine and has moderate wear to head of spine as well as some scuffs and nicks; interior is crisp and clean. Blue buckram gilt letters on spine blue and illus. dust jacket 142 text pp. plus 103 BW plates on pages. A reprint of the 1953 catalogue that presented these pieces created by Michelangelo. Published to coincide with his 500th birthday. "All 84 original drawings in the catalogue are fully reproduced some of them with the addition of details. The catalogue also includes 20 copies of Michelangelo's work many of them of potential interest to scholars. Indexes are provided to all drawings in other collections and all works of art referred to in the catalogue as well as of previous owners and persons mentioned in the text." dj. British Museum Publications / The Trustees of the British Museum hardcover books
WN70715Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag White paper covered boards with red lettering. White dust jacket with red lettering and black photograph on upper panel. Upper edge of jacket is wavy. Fascinating black and white images mostly from plants. First Edition. Paper Cov. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Photography. Cantz Verlag Hardcover books
299780Cantz. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Many full page black & white photographic illustrations slim 4to white boards slight bumping and a touch darkened at lower edge d.w. Germany: Cantz 1998. Near fine.<br/><br/> Cantz unknown books
1994136683Ostfildern: Cantz 1994. Softcover. 159 pages A very fine as new copy in wrappers. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Cantz unknown books
2001172264Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 2001. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Edited by Ann and Jurgen Wilde. Introduction by Ulrike Meyer Stump. Includes 61 plates. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. The MIT Press unknown books
2001136397Cambridge Mass: The MIT Press 2001. Hardcover. VG- DJ & pages have slight tanning at edges. Azure cloth white & photographic dust jacket 22 pp. 61 four-color plates. The result of the 1977 discovery of 61 previously unknown collages prepared by German photographer and teacher Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932 -- all reproduced here With an introduction by Swiss art historian Ulrike Meyer Stump. The MIT Press hardcover books
1984127547Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1984. Softcover. VG. White illus. wraps; 351 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Text provided in both Dutch and English; Accompanied an exhibition featuring works by Karel Appel Francis Bacon Jean Dubuffet Jasper Johns Ellsworth Kelly Fernand Leger Sol Lewitt Henri Matisse Juan Miro Piet Mondrian Pablo Picasso Sigmar Polke Mark Rothko Julian Schnabel Cy Twombly and many others; Extensive annotations. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam paperback books
006074No Publisher Stipple engraving by H.R. Cook after a drawing by De Wilde in the possession of Charles Mathews Esq. No Publisher No Date circa early 1800s. Fine matted in acid-free mat mat size 9" x 12" engraving size 5 1/2" x 7". Lady Mary Katherine Thurlow 1790-1830 wife of Baron Edward Thurlow and a well-known actress. . No Binding . Fine. No Publisher books
138678Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Company n.d. 88p. wraps slightly browned. Little Blue Book 8. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown 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
1973WB17116London: The Limited Editions Club 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Signed by the illustrator Tony Walton. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
197331804London:: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1973. Hardcover. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud. Illustrated by Tony Walton. This copy is number 969 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator. Fine in a near fine some light soiling on top edge slipcase. . Limited Editions Club, hardcover books
1973400282London: The John Roberts Press for The Limited Editions Club 1973. A few chips to glassine otherwise fine. Quarto. Illustrated by Tony Walton. Original gilt-lettered green buckram edges gilt; original glassine; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION number 605 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator. <br/><br/> The John Roberts Press for The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
18932958London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1893. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's clothing binding with gilt to spine and boards. A Near Fine copy with the spine slightly toned. Bookplate of Governour Morris Esquire to front pastedown. Light scattered foxing throughout. Collates: 12 132 14 2: complete including the publisher's catalogue with pages uncut. Inscribed by Wilde on the first blank to the business manager of the St. James's Theater: "R. V. Shone with the author's compliments and sincere thanks. Nov. 93." Under the management of George Alexander and R. V. Shone The St. James's Theater staged Lady Windermere's Fan Wilde's first produced play in 1892 the year before the book was released.<br/><br/>First editions signed by Wilde are scarce on the market with Lady Windermere being particularly rare as only 500 copies of the first edition were printed Mason. Auction records show that the six known association copies of this play were all signed trade editions as the run of 50 large paper copies came out after. The most recent presentation copy of Lady Windermere also presented to someone involved in the production sold in 2018 at Leslie Hindman for $40000. An exceptional example of Oscar Wilde presenting a first edition of his first produced play with "sincere thanks" to the theatre manager who throughout his career would assist Wilde in dodging scandal and bad publicity.<br/><br/>Critics and scholars consider Lady Windermere's Fan to be Wilde's "first successful dramatic production" as well as an enduring masterpiece Mendelssohn. Its success not only relied on his update to French comic models and tropes including blackmail revenge attempts and the discovery of a lost child; success also came as a result of Wilde's own management of the premier. "What we want to do is to have all the real conditions of a success on our hands.Success is a science; if you have the right conditions you get the result" he informed one of the actors Mendelssohn. In addition to pulling on popular stars to perform Wilde had the young men of his entourage arrive at the premier wearing green carnations in their buttonholes -- something that scandalized attendees when in a metatheatrical moment one of the characters onstage appeared with one as well referencing its cost and symbolism for decadent immorality. Prim attendees were in fact surrounded by a generation of young men devoted to such aesthetic ideals and wearing the same flower. This very symbol born out of Lady Windermere would lead to a strong and important professional relationship between Wilde and this book's recipient R.V. Shone the business manager at the St. James. <br/><br/>In 1894 an anonymously published novel The Green Carnation exposed the sexual relationship between Wilde and Bosie son to the Marquess of Queensbury -- a man who would become Wilde's nemesis to the end of his life. Though Wilde sought to dodge Queensbury socially the marquess was roiling for public confrontation. "There was one place and time where he could be sure of seeing Wilde -- the St. James' Theatre on the opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest when as was his custom he would take the stage after the performance to enjoy the acclaim of the audience. It was too good a chance to miss. Queensbury bought a ticket 'by fraud' Wilde suggested --as orders had been given not to sell him one -- and some vegetables.His intention was to greet Oscar's appearance with a shower of vegetation and then stand up and make a public announcement" Stratmann. Fortunately for Wilde supporters including Shone prevented this from happening. Rumor about Queensbury's plan spread notes were sent to Wilde and Wilde appealed to Shone for assistance. Reaching out to Queensbury with apologies Shone returned the marquess's money and explained that his seat had mistakenly been double-booked. Yet Shone and Wilde suspected this would not be the end and so Shone arranged not only to refuse the marquess admission at the door but to have police waiting at the entrance. It was this decision that prevented a disguised Queensbury and a paid prizefighter from sneaking in to pummel Wilde. Thwarted by Shone "he contented himself with having a bouquet of vegetables addressed to Wilde delivered to the stage door" Mikhail. Throughout his career staging work at St. James's Wilde would rely on Shone's business sense to make performances a success regardless what scandals they faced. An exceptional and rare association. Near Fine. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown books
1893002401London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable Edinburgh 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 21.5 by 16 cm. 8.5 by 6.25 inches. 18 132 14 2 pp. With publisher's list of books in the back. In this first edition apparently only 500 copies were printed! The pages are heavily toned per the norm for the paper stock but clean otherwise. The binding is tight. A few uncut leaves in the advertisement section. FEP with small ornamental bookplate pastedown of "Carroll Atwood Wilson" who was a well-known book collector of his day as well as a lawyer and chief legal counsel to the Guggenheims. The publisher's peach-colored cloth has some blistering on the boards. Along the edges there are long narrow spots in which the color is washed out. The spine has been rebacked with most of the original spine mounted thereon with a small loss of the gilt lettering transpiring. The resulting spine also has small dark spots and one is likely not to find it prepossessing. <br/><br/> Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh hardcover books
1893140940629London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane 1893. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's mauve cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling and darkening to cloth and corners and spine ends bumped. Previous owner bookplate and gift inscription to front endpaper. Pages toned. One of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's best-known plays a comedy in four acts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane unknown books
189350532London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. First Edition. Small quarto 21.75cm.; original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; 1413214adspp. Straight and tight with the boards slightly faded at margins as is typical and a few spots where cloth has begun to lift. The text is slightly tanned but foxing is contained to endpapers. In all a pleasing and well-preserved copy of a fragile book. 500 copies issued MASON 357. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head unknown books
189322477London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head 1893. First Edition. Small quarto 21.75cm.; original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; 1413214adspp. Extremities a bit rubbed narrow strip of discoloration to fore-edge of upper cover minor foxing to textblock upper hinge cracked but still quite strong; About Very Good. Contemporary bookplate of Oscar Wilde collector Jon Weekly. 500 copies issued MASON 357. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head unknown books
