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192787871New York: Wm.H.Wise & Co 1927. Connoisseurs Edition. Hardcover. near fine/varies per volume. Volume 1: Poems Vol.2::Vera and Other Early Plays Vol. 3: The Happy Prince and other Fairy Tales intro by Yeats. Vol. 4:The Picture of Dorian Gray. Vol.5: Intentions. Vol;.6: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories.Vol. 7: Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance. Vol. 8: The Importance of Being Earnest. An Ideal Husband Vol. 9: Salome and Other Plays.Vol. 10: The Soul of Man under Socialism and Other Essays. Vol. 11: De Profundis Lectures and Essays. Vol. 12: Criticisms and Reviews.:. !2 Volume Set. Octavo.22 cm x 14 cm.Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines.All of these volumes in dust jackets.Jackets vary in condition. About half of the dust jackets have chipping some with loss at spines. About half of these are in very nice condition with no loss or chipping. Scarce in the original dust jackets. Wm.H.Wise & Co hardcover
1979Q-0192510010Oxford University Press 1979-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press hardcover
1994Q-1566195624Barnes and Noble 1994. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Barnes and Noble hardcover
1989G0060551704I4N00HarperCollins Publishers 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. HarperCollins Publishers hardcover
2000SONG0805059156Henry Holt and Co 2000-12-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.46x2.11x9.58. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Henry Holt and Co hardcover
1909mon0004059945THE PEARSON PUBL 1909T. hardcover. Good. . 10-volume set. deluxe library edition half morocco by Brentano's with raised bands and gilt decorations top edges gilt marbled boards. some of the spines with professional repair joints starting top boards on 2 of the volumes detached. the ""Poems in Prose"" volume contains work by Lady Wilde ""De Profundis"" is from the original unexpergated German edition translated by Henry Zick there is an introduction by Richard Le Gallienne a 296-page biography of Wilde and Wilde's translation of Barbey D'Aurevilly's ""What Never Dies"" is included. THE PEARSON PUBL hardcover
20001-0198119607Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 2000. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 368 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand hardcover
2000Alibris.0016517Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Library stamps blacked out along textblock edges. Library labels and card pocket. Complete Works Oscar Wilde; Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Audience: Professional and scholarly. . Oxford University Press hardcover
190851952London: Methuen & Co 1908. vellum. Very good. Octavo Incomplete set. Five of the Fourteen volumes issued in the first collected edition. This is the very scarce vellum edition printed on Japanese vellum and bound in limp vellum gilt titled. Titles are as follows "The Duchess of Padua" "Lady Windermere's Fan" "Miscellanies" "Reviews" "Salome A Florentine Tragedy and Vera". Very good in limp vellum withlight foxing to the exterior. Bookplate in each. One of 80 sets bound in vellum Mason p460. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover
1909372173New York: The Pearson Publishing Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Spines are faded. The spines of a couple volumes slight foxing one has a stain. Spine labels are browned one has edge wear one is partly loose. One volume has light wear to the top spine end. ; In eight volumes. Set #273 of 1000. . The Pearson Publishing Co. hardcover
1923360841Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company 1923. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy attractive tightly bound in hardcover format a particularly nice-looking set of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde being twelve 12 volumes complete in the Patrons' Edition De Luxe edition. The author Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 and died on 30 November 1900 and turned into an important and popular author poet and playwright author of a wildly important Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray eventually also an in-demand dramatist of the first rank. He suffered a criminal conviction in 1895 "for gross indecency for homosexual acts" and suffered greatly in the Reading Gaol Wikipedia about which he wrote compellingly. The set is from the personal library of Jane Devereux Henderson as printed on the half-title surely by the publisher in an ornate brown font see below. All but the first volume feature the name "Jane Henderson Baumann" at first free endpaper in pencil in the same hand but currently of unknown provenance. Generally clean unmarked of interiors lightly toned at worst minimal rubbing to extremities faint cracking to a couple of joint bottoms noted below else attractive and sturdy. Bound simply handsomely in blue paper over boards grayish-blue cloth-backed and gilt ruling between paper and cloth both front and rear. Rubbed and lightly abraded printed paper labels to spine. Light bumping to spine heads and feet here and there all volumes with deckled fore-edges and all top-edges gilt. Volume I Poems Introduced by Richard Le Gallienne liv 2 1-350 pp.; Volume II with Introduction to "The Duchess of Padua" by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson frontis matter 5-342 pp.; Volume III The Happy Prince and other fairy tales Introduced by W.B. Yeats xvi 2 1-261 pp. with cracking to rear joint and owner's bookplate inside front flap; Volume IV The Picture of Dorian Gray Introduction by Coulson Kernahan and a review by Walter Pater xxix 1 5-406 pp.; Volume V Intentions with an Introduction by Edgar Saltus xvii 2 7-286 pp.; Volume VI Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; the Portrait of Mr. W.H. and other stories with Introductions by Richard Butler Glaenzer and Dr. Clifford Smyth xviii 1 3-303 pp.; Volume VII Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance with an Introduction by A.B. Walkley xiv 4 9-331 pp.; Volume VIII The Importance of Being Earnest; An Ideal Husband with an Introduction by John Drinkwater xiv 4 5-412 pp. with slight cracking to bottom of rear joint; Volume IX Salome and other plays with an Introduction by Arthur Symons xxvi 3 1-228 pp. with cracking to rear pastedown scuffing to rear upper tip plus also a penciled note at rear final endpaper being two lines "All day long like a symmetrical line your practice-like presence like breath"; Volume X The Soul of Man Under Socialism and other Essays with an Introduction by John Cowper Powys xxi 1 1-215 pp. with slight bumping to bottom front tip light scuffing to rear bottom tip; Volume XI De Profundis; Lectures and Essays with Introduction by Michael Monahan and W.F. Morse xlvi 1 1-190 pp. with scuffing to tips abrasions to paper labels and an inked mark to front cover smudge inside rear flap; Volume XII Criticisms and Reviews with an Introduction by Padraic Colum xvii 1-500 pp. with slight staining to paper label. Jane Henderson Baumann was born Jane Devereux Henderson and was sometimes referred to as "Jennie" as a child her older brother being Daniel H. Henderson 1890-1933 and Belle G. Henderson later Belle Henderson Ferris 1894-1985 being her younger sister entry regarding the owner on the archives dot newmexicoculturalaffairs dot org web-site. The truly massive archive spanning 12000 items including transcribed and audio-recorded letters is available in Santa Fe New Mexico as presided over curated and made available by https://archives dot newmexicoculture dot org/solr-search/content/gridsearch_api_fulltext=Jane%20Henderson%20Baumann&field_ancestors=. Her husband Gustave Baumann June 27 1881 – October 8 1971 "was an American printmaker and painter and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America" and whose works were shown for decades at "the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the New Mexico Museum of Art" Wikipedia. Baumann also gained prominence in the 1930s insofar as he was the "Area Coordinator" of the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration Wikipedia. Jane Devereaux Henderson married him on June 25 1925; she bore a daughter Ann on July 31 1927. Ann donated the archive in 2021 and there is a major Baumann family exhibit coming up soon. Jane Devereaux Henderson/Jane Henderson Baumann was a major lover of and student regarding Native Southwest peoples arts and cultures. There is a full photographic record of her and other family members including letters and portraits and even recorded audio letters to and fro.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1927000015986New York: Wm. H. Wise & Company 1927. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination please inquire. Brown cloth with a paper label printed in brown and green on each spine; orange topstain. Title pages printed in orange and black. Volume one with a tipped-in leaf stating this set of the Connoisseur's edition of the complete works of Oscar Wilde was specially prepared for Harry N. Jones. With introductions by various hands including Yeats Drinkwater Cowper Powys and a review by Walter Pater in volume four. The first set of Wilde's complete works was done in 1908 this later set is a lovely production of the wit's poems plays and prose. Light foxing to the topstains four volumes with a bit of rubbing to their cloth a small red spot on volume twelve's bottom textblock; jackets with light chipping heavier on volume one the jacket of volume two with two pieces of tape on its reverse. Wm. H. Wise & Company hardcover
1989Q-1851520252Chancellor Press 1989-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Chancellor Press hardcover
2000Q-185152102xChancellor Press 2000-05-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Chancellor Press hardcover
1923021485Garden City NY: Doubleday Page. 12 vols. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. Nicely designed set with green paper boards grey spines and white spine labels. Spines of all volumes are sun-darkened to brown. Vol. 1: Slight corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at head of spine. Vol. 2: Slight wear at head of Spine Very Good in Good Dust Jacket with half dollar-size chip at head of spine. Vol. 3: Tiny corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at head and foot of spine and a small edge tear. Vol. 4: Small corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with slight loss at the head of the spine and a tiny corner tear. Vol. 5: Four bumps on back cover one-inch area of slight loss at top edge of back cover Good in Good Dust Jacket with slight sun fading on the front cover a three-inch tear along the spine edge and three small chips. Vol. 6: Two very small chips at the foot of the spine Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket with four small chips on the spine and a small edge tear. Vol. 7: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with s slight line of stain along one spine edge. Vol. 8: Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with three very small chips on the spine edge. Vol. 9: Three small edge bumps and a tiny corner area of loss Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket with a large corner area of loss on the front cover front cover smudging and three chips on the spine. Vol. 10: Small corner chip and tear Good in Good Dust Jacket with half-inch loss at the head of the spine and a tear across the spine. Vol. 11: Slight wear at head of spine Very Good Plus in Very Good Dust Jacket with few very small edge chips. Vol. 12: Small corner bump Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with some spots of offset on the front cover a small stain and a tiny chip. Extra postage may be required. . Very Good; Near Fine. Hardcover. Patrons' Edition De Luxe. 1923. Doubleday, Page hardcover
1977Q-0600393720Spring Publications 1977-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Spring Publications hardcover
1994Q-1853264539Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1994-11-05. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Wordsworth Editions Ltd paperback
191354621Self published New York 1913. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. EDWARD SEYMOUR WILDE. The Civic Ancestry of New York -- City and State New York: self-published 1913. Quarto No. 35 of an edition of 210 pp. 79 plus numerous illustrate plates 2 in color gray paper-covered boards quarter-bound in brown morocco with a leather label on the spine signed on the limitation page by Wilde. Former copy of the Netherlands Information Bureau with the agency's bookplate and rubber stamp. A deep dive into New York's Dutch heritage as shown in signets medals seals blazons etc. Condition of this book: Leather perished at spine ends label blemished extremities rubbed -- covers generally battered but all good and sound. Leaves age-toned. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; United States; 1900-1920; History. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54621. . Self published hardcover
1994Q-0674116429Harvard University Press 1994-01-10. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harvard University Press paperback
19792605270001Grolier 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. 10x7x1. 9 volume set. Lacking v.10 Parent's Guide. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Edge wear. Clean unmarked pages. A lovely set for any child's library. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. <br> Contents: 1. Nursery rhymes and tales; 2. Happy hours in storyland; 3. Folk and fairy tales; 4. Favorite stories and songs; 5. Things to make and do; 6. The story of art and music; 7. Nature and the universe; 8. Best children's classics; 9. Heroes and heroines. Grolier hardcover
1994x-0674116429Harvard University Press 1994. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. Harvard University Press paperback
1990Q-0684192098Atheneum 1990-09-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Atheneum hardcover
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
