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18981262071898. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers 1898. Slim octavo original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards uncut. $3600.First edition one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned but in the Ballad while ultimately forgiven they are treated vindictively by their fellows who are equally guilty There is no doubt that Wilde had once again touched a great subject and left his fingerprints on it once read it is never forgotten"" Ellmann 532-34. Mason 371. A few pinholes to two preliminary leaves interior otherwise fine. One tiny inkspot to front cover spine slightly toned. A handsome extremely good copy of this scarce first edition. hardcover
1896019044: the NEW YORK BOOK CO. 1896. Hardcover. Good. B00K: Good/ 1896 . B00K: Good/ $250.90 BALLAD of READING GAOL WILDE Oscar the NEW YORK BOOK CO. 1896 Shown On Book Which Was Printed After 1904. Small H/c This Edition Printed After 1904 Brown Paper Spine With No Title Hard Cover B00K: Good/ 35 Numbered Pages UnNumbered Pages That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine Printed On Tan Paper Browning From Aging In Very Good/ Condition. Spine Broken Inside B00K. Water Stains On Front Cover Not Stuck No Odor No Mold. D/j: None. = No Odors No Other Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Remainder Or Other Marks. Description Applies To This B00K Only. = = This B00K Is Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift. = = World Wide Shipping AVAILABLE. = = <br/> <br/> the NEW YORK BOOK CO. hardcover
1898181391Paris: Société du Mercure de France 1898. Inscribed to a literary batailleur First edition in French number 1 of 12 copies on Holland paper inscribed by the author on the justification de tirage page: "a mon ami Robert Scheffer Oscar Wilde". Signed or inscribed copies of this edition are rare: we trace only two others in auction records. A French poet and short story writer Scheffer 1864-1926 is best remembered for his "contes rapides" or "quick tales" and for his combative style both as a literary critic and as a duellist. He took Wilde to the Folies Bergère on 10 May 1898 and presented him with a copy of his poetry collection La Chanson de Néos affectionately inscribed to the "grand poète". In 1909 Scheffer edited the short-lived gay magazine Akademos. Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol while exiled in France and originally published the work in Britain earlier the same year under the pseudonym "C.3.3." the number of his cell. He took a particular interest in this edition discussing the format type binding and other details with his translator Henry-David Davray 1873-1944. Wilde was intimately involved in the translation and Davray remembered how "Every word was weighed every term was discussed every sentence was read reread scanned with all possible intonations". Provenance: Samuel Pozzi 1846-1918 the French surgeon and pioneer gynecologist and subject of a portrait by John Singer Sargent with his bookplate. Octavo 183 x 121 mm. Text printed in French and English. Contemporary three-quarter green waxed paper spine lettered and ruled in gilt marbled sides and endpapers top edge red others untrimmed original wrappers bound in red and yellow silk bookmarker. Superficial split and small abrasion to front joint contents toned but clean. A very good copy. Not in Mason. unknown
1887012823Milano: Sonzogno 1887 1895 18. Prima edizione italiana delle poesie di Whitman; First Italian Editions. In un volume dimensioni 11x17 cm che contiene anche a seguire: George Eliot: LE TRIBOLAZIONI DEL REVERENDO AMOS BARTON. Prefazione di Gaetano Negri. Oscar Wilde: RACCONTI. Traduzione e prefazione di Francesco Stocchetti. G.B. Shaw: IL DISCEPOLO DEL DIAVOLO. -In tutti i casi prime edizioni italiane di quelle opere edite da Sonzogno nella Biblioteca Universale. - Tutte le opere hanno alla pagina di titolo firma e data di possesso di Davide Casella Napoli. - I due CANTI SCELTI DI WHITMAN pur avendo lo stesso titolo e curatore sono in realtà due diverse serie che si completano come spiega il curatore nell'avvertenza alla seconda raccolta e rappresentano la prima edizione delle poesie pubblicate nel 1887 e otto anni dopo nel 1895. Alla prima raccolta all'ultima pagina 103-04 sono stati tagliati i margini superiore e inferiore dove il possessore aveva scritto alcune note di commento; ma il taglio non tocca la stampa. -Legatura degli anni Venti in tela marrone con una scritta in oro al dorso: AUTORI INGLESI.- Di notevole rarità queste prime edizioni italiane riunite. Sonzogno unknown
188410030Manchester: George Falkener & Sons at The Imperial Press 1884. Lacking half of front board otherwise in very good condition. A special commemorative program and literary album published to support the Chelsea Hospital for Women and sold at a huge 1884 fundraiser held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Binding square and sound in spite of loss to right hand half of upper lower corners and spine panel. Light spotting to preliminaries. Text block otherwise unmarked featuring original literary prose poetry illustrations by Walter Crane John Dinsdale W. Weekes F. Goodall Mrs Houghton and more and music submitted by prominent artists and writers of the Victorian era plus c.65 pp. of contemporary advertisements to the rear. Laid in is a contemporary Bank Order for donations. Edited by J.S. Wood the hospital's secretary at the time. Printed by George Falkener & Sons Art printers. A scarce and most visually appealing piece of Victorian social history. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1884 George Falkener & Sons at The Imperial Press unknown
18938682-A-64769Berlin: Bendix & Krakau 1893. Title page and loose photo plates in richly illustrated cloth portfolio. -plate no. 32 is missing a few plates slightly chipped. Bendix & Krakau hardcover
189811084London: Murdoch & Co 1898. First separate edition. String-bound. Near fine. 12mo 16pp. A clean sound copy in the publisher's printed wrappers near fine. This copy with the staple perished replaced by a professional conservator with archival string and a few very small paper repairs to spine. Tiny stain to the front wrap else a handsome copy indeed of this scarce and fragile Wilde volume a plea for mercy in the case of Warder Martin of Reading Gaol a particularly humane and empathetic prison guard who was dismissed Wilde asserts for his humanity towards prisoners. Wilde had grown to know Martin well during his imprisonment. The text was first published in the Daily Chronicle and this pamphlet represents the first separate edition. Mason 26. Murdoch & Co unknown
1898190120London: Murdoch & Co 1898. An impassioned defence First separate edition first published as a letter in the Daily Chronicle on 28 May 1897 just over a week after Wilde was released from prison. This is Wilde's defence of the warder of Reading Gaol who was dismissed from his job after giving biscuits to a hungry child. This copy belonged to A. J. A. Symons 1900-1941 with his bookplate in the chemise. Symons was friends with Lord Alfred Douglas and was writing a biography of Wilde at the time of his death. He was the founder of both the First Edition Club and the Book Collector's Quarterly. Octavo pp. 16. Original brown wrappers front cover lettered in black. Housed in custom gold patterned chemise. A few creases and marks to wrappers nick to front wrapper light foxing to first and last pages. A very good copy of this fragile work. Millard 26. unknown
1898003329London: Murdoch & Co. 1898. First Edition. . Wraps. Near Fine. Original printed wrappers soft cover. 16 pages. First edition in booklet form of Wilde's letter about the Warden Martin case- Martin had been dismissed as warden at Reading Prison for having shown kindness and giving food to a hungry child prisoner. Provenance: includes a typed 1932 sales receipt from Richard S. Wormser Rare Books New York. Also includes a typed SIGNED letter from Rupert Hart-Davis to the previous owner requesting original Wilde letters Hart-Davis was the editor of the First Collected Edition of the Letters of Oscar Wilde along with a reply to Hart-Davis' request. An exceptional copy of a fragile and scarce item with an interesting provenance. MASON/MILLARD 26. Size: 12mo <br/> <br/> Murdoch & Co. paperback
1898183426London: Murdoch & Co 1898. Pamphlet. 16p. first separate appearance plain printed softbound stapled as issued in textured buff wraps. Covers are split along the spinefold and detached and show mild dust- and handling-soil; the single staple is rusted without significant migration. Text is clean except for earlier booksellers' notes on titlepage. As is; should be quite amenable to restoration. This letter originally appeared in "The Daily Chronicle" on May 28 1897 and is here reprinted with an additional publisher's note; Wilde's name appears at the end of the letter not in the titling. Murdoch & Co unknown books
1898WRCLIT69507London: Murdoch & Company 1898. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Early cellotape backing along wrapper spine a bit dusty otherwise about very good. First printing in booklet form of Wilde's letter about the Warder Martin case first published in THE DAILY CHRONICLE on 28 May 1897 - Martin had been dismissed as warder at Reading Prison for having shown kindness and giving food to a hungry child prisoner. The publisher included a prefatory note to this printing of the text seeking relief and assistance for Martin who was at that time still unemployed. The text was later reprinted with similar documents in DE PROFUNDIS. MASON/MILLARD 26. Murdoch & Company unknown books
184210975LITPNew York: Alexander V. Blake 1842. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Wear to spine ends. Corners bumped. Previous owner's nameplate on front paste-down and in pencil on title pg. Foxing throughout. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alexander V. Blake Hardcover
189320184The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV No. 2. June 1893 1893. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Lettered sewn card wrappers both of which are detached and somewhat nicked and chipped with some edge loss and with portions of the unprinted paper spine absent. Some discolouration to the margins of the first and final leaves where the wrappers are defective yet really a very crisp copy thereafter. This constitutes the first appearance in print of Wilde's prose-poem predating its appearance with the other five examples in July 1894 issue of 'The Fortnightly Review'. Other contributors to this issue include Eric Stenbok his essay 'The Other Side. A Breton Legend' A.R.Bayley his essay 'The Defence of Posey' and his poem 'In Lyonesse' Gleeson White his essay 'In Praise of Idleness' Max Beerbohm his essay 'The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress' contributed as 'H.M.Beerbohm' John Addington Symonds his brief poem 'From the Arabic' and the editor his poems 'In Summer' and 'Apologia Pro Classe Sua'. A somewhat distressed example and yet most uncommon. Mason 265. The Spirit Lamp. Vol. IV, No. 2. June 1893 Paperback
18195421819 grands écrivains 18 volumes 1986 in 12 Dim. 11 x 18 cm, 192 pages environs par ouvrage . Reliure cartonnée soit bleue, rouge , vert gris ou marron dessinée par Jean-Michel Folon. Texte intégral OUVRAGE EN TRES BON ETAT
186381986Dublin: Royal Irish Academy 1863. First Thus. . Half-Leather. Reading copy/No Jacket as issued. A Collection of articles dating 1856-63. Library markings; boards present but detached; backstrip missing; leather worn esp at corners; foxing to prelims; textblock sound; contents vg; 14 7 13 31 19 17p illus. Includes: 'On the Ancient & Modern Races of Oxen in Ireland' 'An Essay on the Unmanutactured Animal Remains in the Royal Irish Academy illustrative of the Ancient Animals of Ireland' 'An Inquiry into the Time of the Introduction and general use of the Potato in Ireland.& Notice of 'Bog Butter' 'Account of A Manuscript of Dr Willoughby's 'On The Climate and Disease of Ireland''. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall <br/> <br/> Royal Irish Academy hardcover
183451187Leipzig, Baumgärtner?s Buchhandlung, 1834. Kl.-8°. Mit 28 Holzstich-Tafeln auf gelbem Papier. VIII, 231 S. - Angeb. - Wilde Thiere, ihre Natur, Lebensweise, Triebe, Fähigkeiten u.s.w. mit gelegentlichen Bemerkungen über ihre Heimath. (Als Gegenstück des im nemlichen Verlag erschienenen Werkes: die Hausthiere.) Aus dem Englischen. Ebda., 1836. Mit Holzstichen im Text u. auf (1 gefalt.) Tafeln. VIII, 419 (1) S., 1 Bl., HLwd. d. Zt. m. goldgepr. Rückentitel (?Natur Geschichte 6)? u. dreiseitig marmor. Schnitt.
1884124354London: Richard Bentley and Son 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Richard Bentley and Son 1884. Octavo iv 297 pages with the title page printed in red and black. Original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth a little rubbed mottled and sunned with minimal wear to the head of the front joint; paper lightly tanned; small nameplate on the front pastedown; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. A rare and spirited travel book by Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde circa 1821-1896 influential Irish poet translator and feminist and the mother of Oscar Wilde. 'From 1846 she began to contribute prose as "John Fanshawe Ellis" and verse as "Speranza" to the "Nation" where on 23 January 1847 her poem "The stricken land" retitled "The famine year" was the great famine's first major poetic response. It indicted her own Anglo-Irish landlord class in terms used in Longfellow's anti-slavery poems . "Driftwood from Scandinavia" 1884 based on old friendships with Swedes and her voyages to Sweden with her husband Sir William in 1858 included much of value on Scandinavian sociology and German romanticism' 'Dictionary of Irish Biography'. The appendix consists of an essay by Sir William Wilde: 'On the Scandinavian Antiquities lately discovered at Islandbridge near Dublin'. Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
1895215072London: Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Limited 1895. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 4 poems by Oscar Wilde and poems by Douglas Hyde Aubrey de Vere John Todhunter William Wilde. Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited unknown
1895215072London: Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Limited 1895. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Fine. First edition. xiii 1 140 4 20 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. With 4 poems by Oscar Wilde and poems by Douglas Hyde Aubrey de Vere John Todhunter William Wilde. Elkin Mathews. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Limited unknown books
1879259339Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1879. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Original wrappers. Fine. First appearance of Wilde's poem. P. 2 in WAIFS AND STRAYS. A TERMINAL MAGAZINE OF OXFORD POETRY Vol. I No. 1 June 1879. 1 vols. Mason 275 Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown
1894330425New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1894. Ravenna Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in leatherbound wraps. Spine slightly cocked. Light shelfwear on spine crown and panel corners.; The Works of Oscar Wilde; 24mo 5" - 6" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1867737441867. WILDE Richard Henry. Hesperia: A Poem. By Richard Henry Wilde. Edited by His Son. Original cloth A.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1867. First edition. Scarce in the trade. Epic poetic narrative in four cantos in ottavo rima. Light wear to head of spine faint scattered foxing to exterior leaves else very good. unknown
18991300991899. First Edition. WILDE Oscar. An Ideal Husband. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899. Octavo original lavender cloth gilt uncut; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $4800.Limited first edition one of 1000 unnumbered copies a very nice copy in original decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon.Wilde's play premiered in January 1895 to an audience that included the Prince of Wales and was an immediate success. Four months later Wilde was in disgrace following his arrest for soliciting homosexual acts and his name was removed from the play's marquee similarly it appears nowhere in this edition. The play closed shortly thereafter and did not appear in print until this first edition. Mason 385. Text about-fine cloth spine with slight fading small mark near base. An extremely good copy. hardcover
1885899P4London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co 1885. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 7". Randolph Caldecott; Various. The first edition of this scarce anthology of poems and prose compiled to raise money for the North Eastern Hospital For Children with contributions by Oscar Wilde and H. Rider Haggard. The first edition of this scarce work.An anthology of poems stories and illustrations published for the benefit of the North Eastern Hospital For Children in Hackney Road compiled by Margaret S. Tyssen Amherst. The hospital now known as Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children was originally formed by two Quaker sisters in 1867. This anthology includes a brief history of the hospital as well as 'Le Jardin des Tuileries' by Oscar Wilde 'Old Age - a Sonnet' by the Earl of Rosslyn 'Faith and Unfaith' by Lady Augusta Noel 'Hunter Quatermain's Story' by H. Rider Haggard 'Seekers For a City' by Andrew Lang and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece and in-text illustrations throughout by Randolph Caldecott W. Callow Tristram Ellis and more. Twenty pages of adverts to the rear. In a rebacked quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally generally smart. Part of the original paper spine has been restored by rebacking. Some rubbing and discolouration to the boards and spine including a few light spots. Minor bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Two tide marks to the rear board. Front hinge is a little strained rear hinge is starting but firm. Spots to the endpapers small tidemark to the rear endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few light handling marks. Good Wells Gardner, Darton & Co hardcover
188519428Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Good. 1885. Hardcover. Beige pictorial cover is soiled and worn head cap is crushed tail cap is rubbed corners are frayed but cover is in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Lacking frontispiece front end sheet and rear end sheet. Pages are lightly toned clean and in very good condition. B&W illustrations. . Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co. hardcover
