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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
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
1899140940300London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition. xii 152 pp. Bound in publisher's original pale lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Copy number 82 of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde with a flourish. Near Fine with subtle sunning several barely discernible spots to cloth short bubble to rear cloth. Typical offsetting to endpapers and a 5" tear to the rear endpaper. Contents bright and fresh. A beautiful copy. Wilde's masterpiece which opened to wide acclaim at the St. James's Theatre London on February 14 1895. It was withdrawn after 86 performances following his arrest and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency as a consequence of his failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury the father of Wilde's homosexual lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He was outed as gay a disgrace in Victorian society and the play was not published in any form until the present edition following his release from prison. It has been hailed as an exemplary farce called by poet W.H. Auden "a pure verbal opera. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1899150425002London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition one of 1000 copies though this copy is not numbered. In Very Good condition. Bumping to corners and wear at extremities. Soiling to cloth. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper. Toning to pages. A handsome copy. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1899OW055London: Leonard Smithers and Co. 1899 First edition first printing one of 1000 copies. Publisher' pale lavender cloth with decorative leaf designs lettered in gilt to spine fore and bottom edges of text block untrimmed. A very good copy some light rubbing to the extremities some fraying to the lower corner light foxing to the first several leaves and a former owner signature to the front endpaper. Mason 381. Widely considered Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is a three act play that was first performed in London at the St. James Theatre on February 14 1895 under the direction of Mr. George Alexander. A satire on Victorian social obligations the play features two protagonists John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff both of whom use alternate identities to lead separate lives in the country and the city. Although the first performance was decidedly successful The Importance of Being Earnest was closed after only 86 shows due to the negative publicity surrounding Wilde's controversial lawsuit with The Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde moved to Paris after his reputation was tarnished and ceased writing dramas making The Importance of Being Earnest his final play. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. London: Leonard Smithers and Co. hardcover books
189923048ELondon: Leonard Smithers & Co 1899. First Edition. Number 298 of an edition limited to 1000 copies. Square quarto. Bound in original lavender cloth with gilt lettering at the spine and gilt decorative designs by Charles Shannon at the outer edges of the boards and the spine. A lovely copy with a trace of foxing a minor bump to the top corner of the front board some slight browning to the endpapers and very minor edgewear. From the library of Harpo Marx the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX.†Leonard Smithers & Co hardcover books
1899110755London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. Signed limited large-paper edition of the author's masterpiece number 68 of 100 copies signed by Oscar Wilde on the limitation page. Octavo original pale purple cloth gilt titles to the spine gilt floral motifs from designs by Charles Shannon on spine and covers edges untrimmed. Presentation copy with an autograph letter signed by the third and final wife of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill actress Carlotta Monterey O'Neill to stage actor Harrison K. Ford laid in which reads "To Harrison Ford Do hope you will enjoy this!- All good wishes Carlotta Monterey O'Neill Dec 6th 31 1095 Park Ave.-" From the library of Harrison K. Ford with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In near fine condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Soon afterwards their feud came to a climax in court where Wilde's homosexual double life was revealed to the Victorian public and he was eventually sentenced to imprisonment. His notoriety caused the play despite its early success to be closed after 86 performances. After his release he published the play from exile in Paris but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work. Leonard Smithers and Co hardcover books
189927574London: Leonard Smithers and Co 1899. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 241. Small quarto 21.75cm.; light red-brown gilt-stamped cloth with designs by Charles Shannon; 16151pp. Spine a bit cocked and darkened as are extremities to a lesser extent two small white spots to rear cover; textblock near fine. Very Good overall. MASON 381. Leonard Smithers and Co unknown books
1899291407London: Smithers 1899. First. hardcover. very good. 151 pages. 8vo original lavender cloth; spine faded; cloth lightly bubbled. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> A very good copy of Wilde's "last and greatest play". One of 1000 copies unnumbered as is often the case. Preliminary pages lightly foxed.<br/><br/> Smithers unknown books
1899268506London: Smithers 1899. First. hardcover. very good-. 151 pages. 8vo original lavender cloth; slight lean spine faded. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. First Edition.<br/><br/> A very good copy of Wilde's "last and greatest play". Number 117 of 1000 copies. Early faint ownership signature on flyleaf. End-leaves are browned but he interior is clean & fine.<br/><br/> Smithers unknown books
1891BBO50<p><b>WILDE</b> Oscar: </p><p><i><b>The Picture of Dorian Gray</b></i>.<br /></p><p>London: Ward Lock and Co. 1891.</p><p>First English edition Deluxe Issue Limited to 250 copies #43. <b>Signed by Oscar Wilde</b>.</p><p>4to vii viii 334 pp.; <b>design binding by Robert Wu</b> in gilt red goat morocco.</p><p>A Landmark work of Literature.</p> Ward Lock and Co. hardcover books
18952221665<p>First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red lower right corner of upper cover replaced uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase.</p><p>Printed by The Chiswick Press.</p><p>Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed.</p> Privately Printed paperback books
1891WRCLIT75377New York: The Humboldt Publishing Company 1891. 48pp. plus 4ff of adverts. Large octavo. Printed self-wrappers. Uniform tanning diagonal crease across lower forecorner of rear wrapper and adverts minute loss at toe of spine neat repair at crown; a very good copy of this characteristically fragile pamphlet. First US printing in this format published as HUMBOLDT LIBRARY OF SCIENCE No. 147 in company with Morris's "The Socialist Ideal - Art" and Owen's "The Coming Solidarity." Wilde's essay is featured as the wrapper- title. The essay first appeared in British and US editions of THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW in February 1891. The first UK edition in book form appeared 'privately' in an edition of fifty copies in 1895. Not in Mason/Millard. Uncommon in wrappers. The Humboldt Publishing Company unknown books
1894319476London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane. At the Sign of the Bodley Head. Boston Copeland and Day LXIX Cornhill 1894. LARGE PAPER one of 25 copies. Printed by the Ballantyne Press. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts with wood-engraved title page half and full-page designs ornamental initials. Printed in red black and green. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Slender 8vo 10 x 7-3/8 inches. Original full vellum gilt with fantastic designs including 2 weird female sphinx on both sides by Charles Ricketts uncut The deluxe binding has "extra ornaments to the sides and inner marges of the binding and with ribbons". The binding is signed by Ricketts with monogram CR on the upper cover; the monogram of the binder Leighton Son and Hodge appears on the lower cover. The deluxe issue has an added lower border on the binding and ties. Fine copy custom half morocco clamshell box. Ricketts Charles. LARGE PAPER one of 25 copies. Printed by the Ballantyne Press. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts with wood-engraved title page half and full-page designs ornamental initials. Printed in red black and green. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Slender 8vo 10 x 7-3/8 inches. One of 25 Anthony Powell's Copy. "The monsters of the Egyptian room at the British Museum live again in his weird sometimes repulsive but all the same stately and impressive lines. The vellum binding the various symbolic designs the quaint rubricated initials and the general arrangement of the text all by Mr. Ricketts' sympathetic art are most subtly infused by the spirit of the poem." Pall Mall Budget June 21 1894. This was the last book Wilde published before his imprisonment.<br/>"the most beautiful and consummately designed trade book of the 1890s" - Nelson<br/>With the bookplate of novelist Anthony Powell 1905-2000 about whose suite of novels A Dance to the Music of Time Guy Davenport observed "The only book I know that takes Proust's habitual narrative gestures Anglicizes them and succeeds in the effort. In fact Powell is the best critical study of Proust."<br/>A CHOICE COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF THE 1890s. Mason 362; Nelson A View from the Bodley Head pp.45- 46 passim; Wick THE TURN OF A CENTURY 1885-1910 Number 10; Ray Illustrator and the Book 262. Provenance: Anthony Powell his bookplate Elkin Mathews and John Lane. At the Sign of the Bodley Head. Boston Copeland and Day LXIX Cornhill unknown books
18946710New York: R. F. Fenno & Company 1894. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo 4 1/2" x 7 3/8" stiff pictorial wraps 22 pages; half title with date of 1894; original glassine dust jacket and original box with printed label: "The Sphinx. Wilde Nippon Booklets." First edition printed in America. Pictorial front wrapper with color rural scene with Mt. Fiji in the background. Book and dust jacket are very good; box has a few light stains but is intact. <br/><br/> R. F. Fenno & Company hardcover books
18782178Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son 1878. First edition. First edition. 12mo. 16pp. Original grey-green printed wrappers. Exceedingly scarce first edition with the publisher's printed crest appearing on the cover of the wrappers as well as on the title page. and a vignette woodcut appears on the last page. The prestigious Newdigate Prize Oxford's top award for poetry dates to early 1800's and the winner for 1878 was the young Oscar Wilde. The pamphlet was issued in the same year as was common with many of the early prize winners and is considered Wilde's first publication in book form. He worked on the poem a few years earlier while touring Greece as a student at Oxford. An exemplary the finest we have seen with no wrinkling or central creases as was commonly seen from folding to place in a pocket. Very small nick out of two corners very slight barely detectable browning to covers else extremely clean and bright. Extremely scarce in this condition. 16pp. <br/><br/> Thos. Shrimpton and Son unknown books
1871WRCLIT23857Savannah: Georgia Historical Society 1871. 70pp. Gilt decorated cloth a.e.g. Light spotting to cloth else very good and bright. First edition in book form. A full examination of the question of whether Mr. Wilde's poetic products were original. Georgia Historical Society hardcover books
