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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
189828830London: Leonard Smithers 1898. First edition one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. Yellow-brown boards with white cloth spine. Usual discoloration to the endpapers but a fine copy. "Ed. Edmonds / 15. Febry. 1898" signature on first blank page. <br/><br/> Leonard Smithers hardcover books
1902WRCLIT61906Boston: Alfred Bartlett 1902. Boards paper labels. Spine label a bit tanned otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book. One of 550 numbered copies. The limitation page bears a facsimile of Wilde's signature. One of the several early U.S. printings virtually all unauthorized. The first U.S. edition was published by Benjamin Tucker in 1899. Alfred Bartlett hardcover books
1898303630London Leonard Smithers 1898. 1898. Third edition so stated. 8vo. Half white over purple linen gilt stamped spine upper cover with gilt stamped floral design by Charles Ricketts uncut. Very good-fine. 31 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Number 69 of 99 copies printed March 4 1898 signed by Wilde in black ink on limitation page with characteristic paraph to the final "e." Mason #374. Bookplate of Chauncey Lawrence Williams on the front free endpaper and a signed pencil notation by Paul Lemperly noting he received the book from Williams. Williams 1872-1924 former member of Way and Williams publishers and the F.W. Dodge Corp. With his memorial booklet laid in loose. Lemperly 1858-1939 noted American book collector. Signed by Authors. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Leonard Smithers, 1898. hardcover books
1899140938501London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet by no means assumed to be authentic. Leonard Smithers unknown books
197937989NY: Viking 1979. First Edition. Leonard Lubin. Horizontal 8vo pp. 55. Illustrated by Leonard Lubin. A nice copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. A children's book. Viking unknown books
1929001190New York: The Macmillan Company 1929. Cloth is faded to tan on spine and corners. Erasure marks at top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by PAMELA BIANCO. Frontispiece and three double-page illustrations in color. Additional full-page black and white plates. 58pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth. Minor Edge Wear./Lightly Chipped Price-Clipped. Octavo. The Macmillan Company Hardcover books
198224576NY: Atheneum 1982. 1st US edition. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. F/F. 73 pp. Illustrated by Ben Montresor. Folio. <br/><br/> Atheneum hardcover books
1944WRCLIT60346Culver City: Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1944. 135 leaves amended by lettered and spanning leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of white and pink stock. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers paper label. Some mild creasing label chipped along lower edge some relevant pencil and colored pencil annotations and notes on wrappers "Hold for Legal Research" lower wrapper torn and chipped but a good copy internally very good. An unspecified but very heavily revised pre- production draft of this screenplay loosely based on Oscar Wilde's 1887 story with a portion of the narrative transposed to a contemporary WWII setting. More than half of the text in this draft is on pink paper as dated revises spanning the five month period noted above and it differs markedly from the earlier drafts offered above. The film was directed by Jules Dassin starred Charles Laughton Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien and was released in July of 1944. The wrapper bears stamps indicating this is a "Complete" draft retained as a "File Copy" as well as the characteristic wartime conservation directives. Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures unknown books
1943WRCLIT60345Culver City: Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1943. 135 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers paper label. Some mild creasing label chipped along lower edge some relevant pencil and colored pencil annotations and notes on wrappers "Hold for Legal Research" but a good copy internally very good. Department routing slip paper-clipped to upper wrapper. An unspecified but early revised pre- production draft of this screenplay loosely based on Oscar Wilde's 1887 story with a portion of the narrative transposed to a contemporary WWII setting. The film was directed by Jules Dassin starred Charles Laughton Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien and was released in July of 1944. The wrapper bears stamps indicating this is a "Temporary Complete" draft retained as a "File Copy" as well as the characteristic wartime conservation directives. The script went through further revisions well into the third quarter of 1943 and likely beyond. Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures unknown books
1943WRCLIT60344Culver City: Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1943. 105 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers paper label. Some mild creasing label chipped along lower edge some relevant pencil and colored pencil annotations and notes on wrappers but a good copy internally very good. An unspecified but early revised pre- production draft of this screenplay loosely based on Oscar Wilde's 1887 story with a portion of the narrative transposed to a contemporary WWII setting. The film was directed by Jules Dassin starred Charles Laughton Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien and was released in July of 1944. The wrapper bears stamps indicating this is a "Temporary Complete" draft retained as a "File Copy" as well as the characteristic wartime conservation directives. The script went through further revisions well into the third quarter of 1943 and likely beyond. Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 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
1923WN56632Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Gray spines with black lettering on beige paper labels some a bit chipped. Top edges gilt. Individual patron name appears on preliminary in Vol. 1. Books very good except Vols. 6 and 9. Vol. 6 has a streak of dampstain on upper board and a 2" scrape on lower board. Vol. 9 has several scrapes on lower board. A most impressive set. Patrons Edition DeLuxe. Cloth Backed Paper Covered Bds. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Doubleday, Page & Company Hardcover books
1907104968London: Keller-Farmer Co 1907. The Astral edition of Wilde's works one of 52 sets this is number one. Octavo 15 volumes. Bound in full morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine floriated corner devices in gilt red and green raised bands moire silk endpapers top edge gilt. With photogravures in two states from paintings photographs and drawings 4 of which are by Aubrey Beardsley. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright novelist essayist and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray his plays as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Keller-Farmer Co hardcover books
1908103150London: Methuen & Co 1908. First collected edition one of 80 sets on Japanese vellum the rarest and most desirable of Wilde's works. Octavo 14 volumes bound in original vellum gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel with the design by Charles Ricketts top edge gilt. "The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional matter which had not previously been reprinted while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time" Mason. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable especially in this condition. The first collected edition of Wilde's works was issued in 1908 with 14 volumes 13 with the imprint of Methuen & Co. and one The Picture of Dorian Gray with the imprint of Charles Carrington Paris. The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional material which had not previously been reprinted while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time. Some of the volumes contain matter which is not included in any other edition" Mason 459. This set collects such classics as Lady Windermere's Fan The Happy Prince Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest as well as numerous essays and poems. This edition was edited by Robert Ross Wilde's long-time intimate friend and literary executor. Methuen & Co hardcover books
1927Embry 171013Wm. H. Wise & Company 1927. A few labels with tiny chips and most lightly toned with occasional small stains overall very good with hinges firm and internally clean. Tan cloth with paper spine labels. Wm. H. Wise & Company, 1927. hardcover books
1923Embry 165571Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Patrons' Editon DeLuxe. Light foxing to endpapers owner's inked name to first volume spine labels lightly toned some mild chipping to heads of spines some more so than others overall very good with hinges and joints firm. Green leatherette-backed grey boards. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Patrons' Editon DeLuxe. hardcover books
1902WRCLIT58986New York: The Sunflower Company 1902. Small octavo. Linen and boards paper label. Near fine in chipped glassine. First printing in this format. One of one thousand copies this copy not numbered as usual. The work was first printed in the NINETEENTH CENTURY July 1890 and collected in INTENTIONS 1891. The Sunflower Company hardcover books
190224098New York: Sunflower Company 1902. Limited edition. Quarter buckram over brown paper-covered boards. A very good copy. 79 pp. 16mo. Number 523 of 1000 copies printed. This essay done as a dialogue was originally published in 1891 in "Intentions." Sunflower Company hardcover books
1948WRCLIT23173Tempe Az: Edwin B. Hill 1948. 4pp. leaflet. Printed in an unspecified but small edition. Fine. Edwin B. Hill unknown books
1906WRCLIT82298New York: F. M. Buckles & Company 1906. Cloth paper labels. Two volumes bound in one separately paginated with individual title-leaves. Spine label browned extremities shelfworn; bookplate and gift card the latter mounted to front free endsheet via four small corner slits a couple of corners creased; just a good sound copy. Evidently unauthorized but preceding the Luce printings. SALOME is not illustrated. F. M. Buckles & Company hardcover 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
1993Embry 189975Henry Holt 1993. First printing thus. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illus by Michael Hague. Henry Holt, 1993. First printing thus. unknown books
1994Embry 186537Viking 1994. First printing thus. Fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Full page color illus. by Isabelle Brent. Viking, 1994. First printing thus. unknown books
1983162114Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press 1983. Octavo cloth. First edition. A novel that mixes autobiography fantasy and SF in a comic story about an Irish expedition to the Sun in a peat-powered spaceship resembling a giant water heater. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with rubbing to black background ink but no loss of color. #162114 Louisiana State University Press unknown books
