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100835<p>Pall Mall London. . Fine. - Four pages consisting of over 400 words penned on all four sides of 6-7/8 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide "The Atheneum Pall Mall. S.W." stationery with a pictorial blind crest embossed at top left of the first page. The popular Anglo-Welsh school poet Lewis Morris responds to the American impressario and lecture manager Major Pond's inquiry about lecturing in America. Writing from the "Reform Club" he says ". the trick is that with a somewhat expensive family my margin of income over expenditure is so small that I should be very slow to run any risk whatever." Though he is hesitant he is "well enough known in America" to ensure success. "The other doubt arises from the fact that my poems are in no degree humorous but rather of a sober character." Signed in full "Lewis Morris". Near fine.</p><p>The Welsh academic and politician Sir Lewis Morris 1833-1907 was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. A lawyer he was unsuccessful as the liberal candidate for Pembroke Boroughs and Carmarthen Boroughs. He was best known as a poet of the Anglo-Welsh school and was knighted by Queen Victoria. His association with Oscar Wilde probably cost him being appointed Poet Laureate. Among his most famous poems is "Love's Suicide".</p> Pall Mall, London.
11436Dover Street; 9 January 1841. 3pp. 12mo. Fair on aged and worn paper. Wilde explains that he had previously written regarding the case but 'by some accident the Letter has been mislaid I believe among my mass of papers and I therefore fear it may not have reached you as I cannot learn who among the Servants dispatched it'. In the lost letter he stated that the wishes of his correspondent 'had been anticipated by the case respecting the Lithgon Family having been answered and also stating that the only point submitted to me regarded the legal presumption of Survivorship among several persons the respective times of whose Deaths could not be ascertained'. The context of the letter has not been discovered. Dover Street; 9 January [1841]. unknown
1964724789PN. New. 1964. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
3732433<p>Snohomish Washington: The Handcraft Shop 1902. 38 leaves rectos only 1 hand-illuminated plate. 12mo. Polished red calf with printed spine label; deckle-edge handmade paper. Each page with a hand-illuminated initial. Bookplate of William F. Gamble; early bookseller’s description tipped-on to front pastedown; exterior soil and light rubbing to boards and gilt; about very good.</p> <p>Number 132 of 150 copies printed on Whatman handmade paper and bound by Will H. Ransom at The Handcraft Shop from a total edition of 160 copies.</p> <p>This is the first edition in this format and the second Ransom’s second imprint. According to Ransom’s checklist only two books were published under this imprint during 1901-1902. During the production of this work Ransom moved to Chicago which disrupted the third publication resulting in only ten completed copies. </p> <p> With introduction a frontispiece and illuminated decorative initials by John D. Clancy. A notable example of Arts & Crafts printing in the Pacific Northwest.</p> <p>Ransom 2. Kreisman & Mason The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest p342.</p> unknown
1902140214Washington: Snohomish 1902. First edition of Wilde's classic Hellenic poem. Octavo original boards illustrated with engravings and hand painted initials embellished in gilt frontispiece by John Dennis Clancy. In very good condition. Wilde’s “theme is not as is often supposed art’s divorce from life but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wilde’s essays is in make-believe the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure his created world contains much pain†Ellmann xvi. Snohomish hardcover
9786586189896NOVA ALEXANDRIA LTDA. new. Poucos souberam falar sobre a dor a solido e o inferno dos condenados como Oscar Wilde em A balada do C�rcere de Reading. Testemunho autobiogr�fico e libelo contra a injustia esta pequena obra-prima representa a mais dram�tica expresso de seu gnio po�tico. ltima de suas obras publicada em vida retrata os horrores por que passou o poeta romancista e dramaturgo irlands quando cumpriu pena por homossexualismo e violao dos princ�pios morais da r�gida Inglaterra vitoriana. A convivncia com a morte a violncia e a desumanizao dos prisioneiros so cantadas no entanto em versos de extrema sensibilidade e beleza po�tica. A traduo rigorosa e a apresentao de Paulo Vizioli fornecem ao leitor a oportunidade de conhecer mais a fundo este texto que por sua singularidade � nico na literatura inglesa constituindo a derradeira manifestao de um escritor que buscou expressar a autonomia art�stica com a pr�pria vida NOVA ALEXANDRIA LTDA unknown
1944feb02328Georgescu-Delafras 1944. First. <p>Used book For more details and availability please contact me</p> Georgescu-Delafras unknown
1971feb21724Univers 1971. Used. 1971; Romanian Edition of Balada inchisorii din reading; For more details please contact me Univers unknown
193048130NY:: Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good closed edge tear along the front spine edge minor edge wear with a few small chips dust jacket. . Dutton, hardcover
190746919NY:: Brentano's. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. First edition thus. Sextodecimo bound in pale blue paper covered boards with small paper label on front board and along spine. Age toning along the spine and edges else very good. No dust jacket. A relatively early and scarce American edition. The pseudonym appears as C. 33 on the title page - Wilde's name does not appear anywhere in the book. ; 39 pages . Brentano's, hardcover
1899biblio3<p>This printing of Oscar Wilde's <em>Ballad of Reading Gaol </em>was published on 23 June 1899 under the pseudonym C.3.3. his prison cell number. <em>Mustard boards with white cloth spine. Condition: In very good condition. </em><em>Light soiling to original publisher's two-tone mustard and white cloth boards and spine. Seventh </em>printing of Leonard Smithers 1899 Edition 8°. 31 pages. It was the first to reveal the author's identity putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets under his cell number on the title page. Mason Stuart 1914; new ed. 1972 <em>Bibliography of Oscar Wilde</em>. Rota pub; Haskell House pgs. 408–423.</p> Leonard Smithers hardcover
10595E. P. Dutton & Co. HBNODJ 1928 1st editionBlack cloth & decorated greyblue Paper Boards decorated Gold Gilt Cover rub Scuff & Wear Primarily Extremities Small Tears top Spine NF-/VG NODJ Interior Nice Tight Basically Clean with light edge stain some pgs & slightly darkened pgs & few small margin tears & tiny or small external pg chips 124 pgs. Signed by Illustrator. Hard Cover. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover
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
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2013DADAX3849199932TREDITION CLASSICS 2013-01-15. hardcover. New. 5.00x0.63x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. TREDITION CLASSICS hardcover
06548Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999. Wilde's Greatest Poem in a Modern Private Press Masterpiece<br /> One of Only 25 Copies on Velin Arches Blanc<br /> <br /> WILDE Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Engravings by Peter Forster. Introduction by Bryan Forbes. Reading Berkshire: The Carpathian Press 1999.<br /> <br /> One of 25 copies printed on Velin Arches Blanc from a total edition of 125 signed by Bryan Forbes.<br /> <br /> Large octavo 9 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 251 x 184 mm. 1-16 17-103 1 blank 1 limitation pp. Six engravings by Peter Forster.<br /> <br /> Elegantly bound by Anthony Wessely in full green morocco. Spine with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments olive-green endpapers. Housed in the original green cloth slipcase. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> A finely produced private press edition of Wilde's most powerful and enduring poem written in the aftermath of his imprisonment in Reading Gaol 1895-97. First published in 1898 under the pseudonym "C.3.3." Wilde's prison number the poem stands as a profound meditation on justice punishment and human suffering and remains one of the great poetic responses to incarceration in English literature.<br /> <br /> This Carpathian Press edition is among the most desirable modern fine press interpretations of the text distinguished by its restrained yet expressive engravings by Peter Forster which echo the stark emotional landscape of Wilde's poem. The use of Velin Arches Blanc paper - reserved here for just 25 copies - provides a luxurious surface that complements both the typography and the engraved plates.<br /> <br /> A beautifully conceived and executed modern private press book - uniting Wilde's most haunting work with accomplished illustration and binding of the highest order. Reading, Berkshire: The Carpathian Press, 1999 unknown
19249908New York: H.S. Nichols 1924. 5 x 4.5" black leather decorated with gilt gilt lettering text block edges gilt 141 3 pp portrait frontispiece. Volume V of H.S. Nichols' "Precious Tomes" series. Covers worn front joint cracked. H.S. Nichols 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
19307583NY DUTTON 1930 1930. DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Hardcover. NY, DUTTON, 1930 hardcover
7584NY DUTTON 1930. NY, DUTTON, 1930 unknown
1904170766Moscow: Knigoizdatel'stvo Skorpion 1904. Each man kills the thing he loves First Russian edition first printing of this translation by Konstantin Bal'mont 1867-1942 one of the most significant Symbolists of Russia's "Silver Age" of poetry with the original illustrated wrappers by Modest Durnov 1867-1928. Bal'mont grew up on his family estate to the north-east of Moscow and demonstrated a flair for writing and languages from childhood. His 1901 collection of poems Burning Buildings Goryashchie zdaniya made him into a leading figure in the Russian Symbolist movement. He also translated Walt Whitman into Russian. Durnov is perhaps best known as an architect. His unrealised designs for Moscow's Aumont Omon Theatre included styling the entrance as the open maw of a dragon into which the public would pass. He appears to have met Wilde on a trip to London and the latter became his favourite author. In addition to executing the portrait which graces the wrappers Durnov also illustrated the 1906 Russian edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Sergei Polyakov established Skorpion in 1899 and it quickly became a unifying force in Russian Symbolism publishing poets such as Gumilev and Belyi. It also focused on publishing translations including the work of Ibsen and Poe. Bal'mont and Durnov were both heavily involved in the house from the time of its conception. Octavo 184 x 120 mm. With 6 pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in the original illustrated wrappers by Modest Durnov. Bookseller's stamp and inscription to rear wrapper. Some soiling to the wrappers tears to spine some spotting and light toning to the leaves. A very good copy considering its fragility. Roznatovskaia 260. unknown
191818417<p>Limited edition #266/395. All text in French/langue francaise.Very Good HC no DJ. Signed binding 'Alfred Farez'. Half bound in red hard-grain morocco leather with shell-veined Spanish pattern marbled paper; gilt stamped titles on spine; peacock design marbled end papers; Van Gelder laid paper interior; two-color title pages; includes original paper covers of light gray - front cover with two-color titles rear unprinted. Bright clean covers and spine are Fine but for very light rubbing at fore corners and spine end corners and 3 small scuff/chips at mid-spine; tightly bound; bright clean interior. 8vo 74 pp; original woodcut illustrations of Daragnes in 3 color. See OCLC #185196581.</p> Paris: Leon Pichon hardcover
