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1980mon0000038432Heron Books London 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1948 edition illustrated by Arthur WRagg. Ex-library book usual markings. Rebound by library. Heron Books London hardcover
1904002331Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1904. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green paper covered boards with paper title labels to front and spine. One of 950 copies printed on hand made Van Gelder paper and the type distributed. IN ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. Copy is FINE. Slipcase is VG. Exterior is clean. Paper titles crisp. Edges sharp. Inside is unmarked tight with almost no toning. Slipcase is olive with imprinted black titles to bottom front and spine. Some spotting to covers a bit of wear to edges. SCARCE in slipcase. Thomas B. Mosher Hardcover
1928163623New York: Vanguard Press 1928. First Edition; First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Tape along spine. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Vanguard Press hardcover
1928097379New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press. Detaching spine cover glued back down by seller. Edge worn covers very thin wood veneer over boards with scuffing and light soiling cracking along spine edges and chips out of spine ends. Illustrated end papers and mezzotint illustrations throughout pages tanning from edges else pages good and binding tight. Presumed limited edition. Copyright page says "The first impression consists of two thousand copies" . Good- Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928. Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press hardcover
1937173736New York: Heritage Press 1937. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Heritage Press hardcover
1928109258New York: E. P. Dutton 1928. First John Vassos edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Soiling small owner inscription. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1928109256New York: E. P. Dutton 1928. First John Vassos edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Edge wear and soiling. Corners rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1928178757New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1928. First Vassos trade edition first printing inscribed on the half-title by the illustrator "To Josephine Allen in symbolism John Vassos" and with Allen's signature on the front pastedown. Vassos's art-deco illustrations poignantly complement Wilde's famous poem. Vassos 1898-1985 was an American industrial and graphic designer famous for designing the first commercially available television sets and many popular logos. In 1926 Vassos's design for a cover illustration for a stage production of Salomé caught the attention of the publishers E. P. Dutton resulting in a Vassos-illustrated edition of the play published in 1927. He illustrated eight further books of which this is the second. Octavo. Monochrome frontispiece 15 plates by Vassos all with tissue guards. Original blue boards black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt front board with illustration in black and gilt pale grey endpapers top edge blue fore and bottom edges uncut. With dust jacket. Spine a little cocked top edge toned closed tear to outer margin of pp. 35-6; jacket unclipped nicks chips and short closed tears to extremities spine sunned: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
194033463New York: The Peter Pauper Press c. 1940. First Edition Thus. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. 8vo decorated boards with overall patterned design in purple and green lettered on the spine and housed in the slipcase with paste down title label. 93 pp. A fine and well-preserved copy with extremely minor overall age mellowing to the exterior. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THE WONDERFUL ARTWORK OF HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde's last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work. "Had it been written a hundred years ago it would have been printed as a broadside and sold in the streets by the balladmongers; it is so common as that and so great as that" Jackson The Eighteen-Nineties p. 99. <br><br> ".He did not wring his hands as do<br> Those witless men who dare<br> To try to rear the changeling Hope<br> In the cave of black Despair:<br> He only looked upon the sun<br> And drank the morning sun.<br><br> He did not wring his hands nor weep<br> Nor did he peek or pine<br> But he drank the air as though it held<br> Some healthful anodyne;<br> With open mouth he drank the sun<br> As though it had been wine!. The Peter Pauper Press hardcover
19046032<p><strong>Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation.</strong></p><p>The first translation of Oscar Wilde's '<em>Ballad'</em> by N. Korn presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky appeared in 1903 but it was riddled with errors. The following year another version by <strong>Konstantin Balmont</strong> 1867–1942 a Russian symbolist poet and translator was published. In the summer of 1902 Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903 Balmont delivered a lecture titled '<em>Oscar Wilde's Poetry and The Ballad.'</em> and presented his translation at a meeting of the Literary-Artistic Circle in Moscow. During his lecture he likened Wilde to Nietzsche and hailed him as 'the greatest English writer of the end of the last century'. Balmont also prepared translations of works by Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Walt Whitman and Robert Burns. His translations were always infused with his own distinctive style often referred to as 'Balmontic motifs'. <br />The book's cover featuring a portrait of Oscar Wilde was created by <strong>Modest Durnov</strong> 1867–1928 a painter poet architect and a close friend of Balmont. Durnov was known as 'a demon' a 'master of thought' and a 'Moscow Dandy'. According to some accounts he met Wilde during one of his trips to London. <br />This book was once part of the <em>private library of Russian artist <strong>Mikhail Tarkhanov</strong></em> 1888–1962 a renowned master of endpapers and bookbinding. Tarkhanov received his education at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing which later became VKhUTEMAS under the guidance of Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky.</p><p>OCLC locates two copies of this edition only: in the University Library of Bern and the Rome National Central Library.</p><p><em><strong>Please be advised that certain books in our collection may require an export permit for international shipping. If you are interested in purchasing such books for delivery abroad kindly contact our staff for assistance in obtaining the necessary permit. We appreciate your understanding.</strong></em></p> Skorpion paperback
1944393142London : Unicorn Press 1944. 1944 edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Provenance: Previous owner's signature to front pastedown. Physical description: 32 p. ; 19 cm. Notes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol was first published by Leonard Smithers in 1898. This edition was printed in 1944 and reprinted twice in 1945. Subjects: County Gaol & House of Correction Reading England; Poetry; Ballads; 19th century literature. London : Unicorn Press hardcover
193745462Limited Editions Clulb. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Original full embossed sheepskin TEG gilt spine title. Limited edition #840 of 1500 copies signed by Zhenya Gay to the colophon. Spine ends/edges lightly rubbed. Spine lightly sunned. The slipcase is faintly sunned near opening. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author . Limited Editions Clulb hardcover
1928D19243New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1928. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Original cloth-backed boards gilt; dust jacket. ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN VASSOS and signed by him on the half-title. DJ is chipped along the edges and has a chip missing from the center of the spine. In mylar protective wrapper to minimize further damage. <br/><br/> E. P. Dutton & Co. hardcover
199416855<p>Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Two attached ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase covered in a pattern by Palmer.</p> Old Stile Press
19286082<p>New York: MacY-Masius: the Vanguard Press. Good with no dustjacket. 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges bumping to spine ends & top corner tape repair to spine 3" piece trimmed from top edge FFE else a bright & solid copy. Limited Edition 1/2000 copies. Illustrated mezzotints by Lynn Ward. ; 4to 9" - 12" tall .</p> MacY-Masius: the Vanguard Press hardcover
19651300985New York: Ernest Rathenau 1965. Book. Illus. by Erich. Very Good. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp copy in like dj slipcase slightly damaged . Pics available. Ernest Rathenau Hardcover
1923000161<p><strong>First edition with wood engravings by Frans Masereel. No. 115 of the limited edition of 250 on laid paper. Signed by Frans Masereel in the imprint.</strong></p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Original half calf over marbled boards gilt title to spine. Quarto: 28 × 185 cm; pp. 57 4 ll. With 37 original woodcuts of which 7 full-page printed recto only by Frans Masereel.</p><p><strong>Ref.:</strong> Ritter: C 29 S. 258; Rodenberg: 448</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> Binding somewhat scuffed at joints and corners and partly faded. Contents clean and free of marks but slightly toned with age. Overall a very good copy.</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong> The Ballad of Reading Gaol was printed by Offizin Mandruck in Munich as the 11th Obelisk print with the original English text. The woodcuts were cut by Masereel in early 1923 and were printed from the original woodblocks. In addition to this edition 70 copies were published numbered I to LXX in which the full-page woodcuts were also signed by Masereel and 20 unnumbered and unsigned copies.</p> Drei Masken Verlag hardcover
19251301071London: Methuen 1925. Book. Illus. by Frans Masereel. Good. Board with Cloth Spine. Limited/Numbered. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Number 59 of 450 copies pp 62 Internally very good subject to some tanning to the endpapers binding firm cover sound with some marking . Pics available. Methuen hardcover
19112222674<p>First edition thus from British sheets. Small octavo. Introduction by Robert Ross dated Reform Club May 25 1910. Original red stamped brown boards. No dust jacket. Very good small chip at head of spine. 86 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><strong>Pages 61-86 contain a shorter early draft of the ballad.</strong></p><p><strong>Printed by T. and A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press.</strong></p> Browne’s Bookstore hardcover
192879263New York:: E. P. Dutton 1928. First of this illustrated edition; No. 137 of 200 copies signed by John Vassos. publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth t.e.g. in dust jacket. Very slightest of rubbing at the extremities and corner tips; otherwise a fine copy. The dust jacket is split at the joints and the backstrip is in pieces lacking about a 1" section with some other small chips. . 8vo. Illustrated by John Vassos. E. P. Dutton, hardcover
1928890165New York: Vanguard Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Limited edition of 2000. Contents fine. Covers soiled and spine missin about 1/3 with remainded appearing to be a glued repair. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 104 pages . Vanguard Press hardcover
19281398868New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Hardcover. Octavo 124 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is black with gold print. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and blue paper to boards; wear to spine caps and corners peripheral toning to paper. Text block has name in ink on front pastedown cracked rear hinge. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates with tissue guards. Inscribed in ink by the illustration on the half-title page. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1398868. FP New Rockville Stock. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
1937017882New York USA: The Heritage Press 1937. Book. Illus. by Gay Zhenya. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition THUS First Printing. pp. 42.Original Brown boards with embossed decoration titles in gilt to spine Heritage club newsletter laid in. Internallyt fine unmarked. Original slipcase present complete wear and chipping to edges of case. The Heritage Press Hardcover
19281403425New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tall Octavo 124 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. <br /> <br /> Dust jacket spine black and blue with gilt lettering. Heavy wear to dust jacket including chipping with material loss to corners; front cover detached from spine; gilt lettering to spine faded yet legible; protected by a mylar covering. <br /> <br /> Quarter bound in black cloth gilt lettering to spine blue paper boards; deckled text block untrimmed fore-edge. Mild shelf wear to boards including bumping with slight material loss to head tail and corners; slight cocking to spine boards shaken no shelf lean binding intact binding visible at gutter between rear free endpaper and rear paste-down; age-toning to text block and less so to interior pages illustrations and text remain clear and legible. <br /> <br /> Shelved in Poetry. Originally published in 1898 by Leonard Smithers. 1403425. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
192467112Printed in the USA: Harry Sidney Nichols 1924. Precious Tomes ordinary edition. Leather over boards. Good. Hardcover leather black over boards. 32mo. 144 pp. Illustrated with a sepia tone plate photograph frontispiece portrait of Wilde and a full-page sepia tone plate photograph of the monument on Wilde's grave. Part of the "Precious Tomes" series created by Harry Sidney Nichols. Reproduced from the 1898 corrected by Wilde second edition. Author's name double border and floral ornaments gilt stamped on front and back boards. Title floral ornament and publisher's name gilt stamped on spine. All edges gilt. Embossed ownership stamp in the lower right corner of title page. Text block is clean with a strong square binding. Boards and spine worn and flaking. Top fore edge corners exposed. Tear at the bottom of the spine has removed the H initial in Nichols' name. Harry Sidney Nichols unknown
