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1938FLAHIVE-538E.P. Dutton & Co. New York 1938 First printing thus: First edition illustrated by John Vassos. A beautiful edition of Wilde's poem written post-prison in exile. A very good copy without a jacket. All 16 illustrated plates 15 in-text and 1 frontispiece and all tissue guards are intact. Small owner's signature on front endpaper. Spine slightly slanted. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York hardcover
1907002023F.M. Buckles & Co 1907. Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket. An Elegant edition of Wilde's classic poem. There is damage to some of the later pages and soiled paged. Solid binding. Shelf wear and some soiling on front and back boards. <br/> <br/> F.M. Buckles & Co hardcover
193787071New York: The Limited Editions Club at the Harbor Press 1937. Very Good. Zhenya Gay. 28.5 x 19 cm. Grey leather decorated to look like a brick building with gilt spine lettering and housed in slipcase. Limited to 1500 signed by the illustrator of which this is copy 684. Illustrated with 8 lithographs by Zhenya Gay. There is some scuffing to the front cover and edges and the spine is faded. Slipcase is a bit worn at the edges. The Limited Editions Club at the Harbor Press unknown
1945mon0000994842The Unicorn Press 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Third printing 1945. Pages clean and bright no markings. The Unicorn Press hardcover
1944C219205London: The Unicorn Press 1944. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. 32pp. Original tan quarter cloth over brown cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Light wear and fading otherwise near very good indeed. Small seller label to pastedown and owner initials to endpaper. No jacket. The Unicorn Press, hardcover
1948998B6London: Castle Press 1948 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Arthur Wragg. First impression of the Castle Press edition of Wilde's significant ballad on his imprisonment and the execution of a fellow prisoner strikingly illustrated by Arthur Wragg. First impression of this Castle Press edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated throughout including the endpapers with striking imagery by Arthur Wragg much of which is full page.First published anonymously in 1898 and written during his exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples this ballad from the eminent British poet and playwright Oscar Wilde reflects on his time in HM Prison Reading for "gross indecency" with other men. The poem recounts the execution of the thirty-year-old Charles Thomas Wooldridge convicted of the murder of his wife. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks. Internally generally firmly bound. Bright and clean with the odd spot heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Castle Press hardcover
193733024New York: The Limited Editions Club 1937. The 5th book from the 8th Series this being #687 of 1500 copies. Signed and illustrated by Zhenya Gay with lithographs pulled by George C Miller. Book design by John S Fass and printed by The harbor Press. Set in intertype Egmont or Hurlbut special paper. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in full granite-gray sheepskin. 76 pages 7 1/4 x 11 inches. Some wear to leather on spine toning to endpapers otherwise fine internally Print info from 1985 Bibliography and Snyman - Grossman LEC Checklist #87. The Limited Editions Club unknown
192825436New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/Very Good -. John Vassos. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN VASSOS on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of this 1928 1st thus the first apearance of the pairing of Oscar Wilde's epic poem and John Vassos' evocative Art Deco illustrations. Tight and Near Fine Theodore Dreiser's lovely bookplate gracing the front pastedown in a bright price-clipped VG- to VG dustjacket with light chipping along the panel edges and more pronounced chipping at the spine about 40% of it missing. Still though a presentable not unattractive copy with Vassos' captioned illustrations --still protected by their original tissue-guards-- beautifully complementing Wilde's text. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
192850890New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. Good-. Limited edition one of two thousand. Spine is largely missing binding remains stable. Boxing to the corners. loc B19. Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press hardcover
1957mon0000020855The Heritage Press George Macy 1957. Hardcover Full Leatherlen Slip. Like New. in x in x in. No DJ. Unmarked unread book. Hardcover bound in full leather product called Leatherlen. Slipcase sunning. Sandglass Number v:17 re this volume laid in. Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Lithographs by Zhenya Gay. The Heritage Press, George Macy hardcover
192819589New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Decorative Boards. Very Good/Very Good. John Vassos. A solid copy of the 1928 1st trade edition of this John Vassos-illustrated edition. Tight and VG light offsetting at the panel edges very light abrading to the rear panel in a bright price-clipped VG dustjacket with light chipping at the panel edges. Octavo wonderfully illustrated thruout by John Vassos with each illustration including its original tissue-guard. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown
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
