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Click to view full description | 1. | C. 3. 3. (Oscar Wilde). The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London. Leonard Smithers. 1898
Sixth edition, stated. Octavo, cream linen spine and cinnamon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. 31pp with printing to rectos only. Deckled fore-edges. Bookplate of Septimus Hodges to pastedown. Another name to pastedown. Endpapers partially toned. Cloth is lightly soiled. A very attractive copy. The first six printings (approximately 6000 copies) are the only ones that do not acknowledge Oscar Wilde as the author but used his cell number as the authorial designation.
Price: 550.00 USD | See Full
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| 2. | Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan.
Boston: Luce &Co, 1906
Duodecimo, in wire stitched wrappers, fading to edges and chipped at head of backstrip.
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| 3. | Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. [No.8 in the 'Little Blue Book' series]
Girard, Kansas.: Haldeman-Julius.
Undated. Small booklet in wrappers. 96pp. Name inscribed inside wrapper, dated 1925. Faded, else Vg.
Price: 12.00 USD | See Full
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| 4. | Wilde, Oscar. Pen, Pencil and Poison. [No.315 in the 'Little Blue Book' series]
Girard, Kansas.: Haldeman-Julius.
Undated. Small booklet in wrappers. 56pp + viii of publishers advertisements. Name inscribed inside wrapper. Some early pages offset in binding with text clipping fore-edge Faded to margins, else Vg.
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| 5. | Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other Poems. [No.2 in the 'Little Blue Book' series]
Girard, Kansas.: Haldeman-Julius. Girard,
Undated. Small booklet in wrappers. 64pp. Name inscribed inside wrapper. Faded, with chip to top leading edge of wrapper, else Vg.
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| 6. | Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
New York.: Cameo Classics (Grosset and Dunlap)
Undated (1920?). Octavo, black cloth with impressed cameo bust in silver on front board. Nice woodcuts (unattributed). Vg.
Price: 30.00 USD | See Full
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| 7. | Wilde, Oscar. The Essays of Oscar Wilde.
New York. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. 1916
Narrow duodecimo, burgundy leather with gilt decoration and titling to top board and spine. x, 624pp. Frayed to top edge, bookplate to pastedown and name to flypaper. A Vg copy in a dustwrapper that is faded to spine.
Price: 25.00 USD | See Full
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| 8. | Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales.
New York.: Brentano's. 1915
Duodecimo, black cloth with gilt titling to top board and spine. Top edge gilt. 217pp. Contains "The Happy Prince", "Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Young King", "The Star-Child", "The Fisherman and His Soul", and "The Birthday of the Infanta". A slim little volume that is tight, bright and Vg+.
Price: 15.00 USD | See Full
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| 9. | Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. [No.280 in the 'Little Blue Book' series]
Girard, Kansas.: Haldeman-Julius.
Undated. Small booklet in wrappers. 62pp. Name inscribed inside wrapper. Faded to margins with a lightly soiled upper wrapper, else Vg.
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| 10. | Wilde, Oscar. The Poems of Oscar Wilde, comprising Ravenna, Poems, The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Portland Maine.: Thos Mosher, 1903
8vo in full green morocco leather. Single gilt rule border with double gilt rule and decorated corner pieces to boards. Gilt dec spine slightly sunned. Both front endpapers have bookplates. Teg, remainder untrimmed. A limited edition of 600 copies on hand-made paper
Price: 320.00 USD | See Full
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| 11. | Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man Under Socialism. [No.36 in the 'Little Blue Book' series]
Girard, Kansas.: Haldeman-Julius.
Undated. Small booklet in wrappers. 60pp. Name inscribed inside wrapper. Faded, else Vg.
Price: 12.00 USD | See Full
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| 12. | Wilde, Oscar. (Illustrated by Pamela Bianco). The Birthday of the Infanta.
New York. Macmillan. 1929 Pamela Bianco.
Octavo, original silver stamped gray cloth. 58pp. 4 color plates and numerous other full-page line drawings by Pamela Bianco. Spine and edges sunned. Occasional wear and minor staining. Dustwrapper is price-clipped and has some minor chips and soiling.
Price: 35.00 USD | See Full
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 | 13. | Wilde, Oscar. (Sebastian Melmoth). Sebastian Melmoth.
London. Arthur L Humphreys. 1905
Duodecimo, green cloth with gilt decorative tooling and gilt lettering to top board and gilt lettering to spine. 222pp. Top edge gilt. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed. Cloth worn, with short tears, to head and heel of spine. Spine darkened. Inscriptions to endpaper. Oscar Wilde adopted the name Sebastian Melmoth after his release from prison (Reading Goal). Melmoth was a character from a gothic novel written by Charles Maturin, an ancestor of Wilde. The character Melmoth was a doomed character destined to wander.
Price: 90.00 USD | See Full
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| 14. | Wilde, Oscar. [Andre Derain and Aubrey Beardsley] Salome.
New York and London.: Limited Editions Club. 1938
Limited/Numbered. Signed by Illustrator. First edition thus. A limited edition of 1500 copies of which this copy is numbered 1260. This book consists of two volumes in a slipcase. One volume is the original French publication, illustrated by Andre Derain with ten full page gouache drawings on black paper and reproduced by the pochoir process. This volume is signed by the artist. This volume has some light wrinkling to the black wrappers, but is otherwise fine. The second volume is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas and is bound in red cloth over boards. It has sixteen plates illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. It is very lightly sunned to the spine but is otherwise fine. The maroon slipcase is lightly shelfworn and is Vg+. The original glassine wrappers for both volumes are present and torn. .
Price: 600.00 USD | See Full
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| 15. | Wilde, Oscar. [C.3.3.] The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London.: Leonard Smithers. 1899
Octavo, white backstrip and tan boards. 31pp. Backstrip is darkened and the spine portion is worn and frayed with some loss. There is a small inky thumbprint to the lower corner of the endpaper. This copy does not have Smithers full address and so was published after his bancruptcy. An early volume of a significant book.
Price: 50.00 USD | See Full
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| 16. | Wilde, Oscar., Illustrated by Roosje Penfold. The Teacher of Wisdom.
The Petrarch Press. 1994
Limited/Numbered. Signed by Illustrator. Crown octavo, sewn in red-brown wrappers. A limited edition of 200 copies, of which this copy is numbered 102. Signed by the illustrator Roosje Penfold. Printed on Arches Text paper. Fine plus.
Price: 55.00 USD | See Full
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| 17. | Wilde, Oscar., Illustrated by Roosje Penfold. The Teacher of Wisdom.
The Petrarch Press. 1994
Limited/Numbered. Private Press. Crown octavo, sewn in red-brown wrappers. A limited edition of 200 copies, of which this copy is numbered 114. Signed by the illustrator Roosje Penfold. Printed on Arches Text paper. Small mark to corner of wrapper, else Fine.
Price: 45.00 USD | See Full
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