 | Wilde, Oscar: Sebastian Melmoth. London: Humphreys, 1904. First. Sm. Quarto. pp. [iv], 223. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bound by Hatchards of Picadilly in contemporary full brown morocco, titled in gilt. Light rubbing to cover; purple silk marker. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. In 1895 while enjoying the success of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Wilde allowed himself […] €475.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband (Signed limited edition, exuberant early 20th-century slate-blue crushed morocco) London: Smithers, 1899. Small quarto. First edition, first impression. pp. [xiv], 213. Bound in full slate blue morocco, covers framed by gilt fillets with inlaid red morocco fan cornerpieces surrounded by twining gilt vines, raised bands, spine compartments with leafy gilt sprays; torquoise morocco doublures framed in gilt with botanical cornerpieces; turquoise watered silk endleaves; […] €29,500.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. London: Methuen, 1910. 12mo. Fourth edition. Bound in publisher’s full green cloth covers, gilt lettering on front and spine. Top edges gilt, others deckled. Generally a fine clean copy. A crisp, attractive copy in the characteristic Methuen “uniform” style of the period. Wilde’s society comedy, first performed 1895 and first published in book form in […] €450.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. Editor. The Woman’s World. November 1887 – October 1889. [Volumes I & II]. Profusely illustrated. [WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY MRS. OSCAR WILDE & LADY WILDE] London: Cassell & Company, 1888/1889. Quarto. pp. (1) iv, 572 (2) viii, 664. Modern maroon and blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of Amy Dawes with her decorative bookplate on front pastedowns. Mason 277-281. Wilde was appointed editor of “The Lady’s World” in June 1887. Quickly renamed “The […] €1,500.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. Essays, Criticisms and Reviews. Essays, Criticisms and Reviews. Now first collected. WILDE, Oscar. London: Privately Printed, 1901. First. Small quarto. pp. 175. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly in contemporary half brown morocco over pink linen boards. Spine divided into two panels by one gilt raised band, title in gilt direct in the first, gilt floral decoration in the second, […] €275.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. A Play About a Good Woman. Paris: Pirate Edition by Leonard Smithers, 1903. Small quarto. pp. [xvi], 132. Bound by Asprey in three quarters maroon levant morocco on maroon linen boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Edition limited to 250 copies [No. 133]. All edges gilt. A fine copy. The first of Wilde’s comic plays, which were to make his […] €585.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. Salome. A Florentine Tragedy. Vera [a collected edition of three plays] (LIMITED TO 80 COPIES ONLY ON JAPANESE VELLUM) London: Methuen and Co, 1908. Octavo. First thus. pp. [viii], 262. Limp vellum with yapp edges, blocked and lettered in gilt. Vellum a little darkened. Signature of Arthur R. Proctor on front endpaper. Limited edition, one of 80 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Top edge gilt. A nice copy. Mason 424. €1,250.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. Salomé. Drama en un acte. Illustré par Aubrey Beardsley. Paris: Éditions du Colombier, 1966. Quarto. pp. 88. Pictorial boards. In very good condition. A handsome French edition of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated symbolist drama, first published in French in 1893 and widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Decadent movement. Written originally in French for the actress Sarah Bernhardt, Salomé reinterprets the biblical […] €85.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol with an Introduction by Burton Rascoe and Lithographs by Zhenya Gay. New York: The Heritage Press, New York, [1937]. Imperial octavo. pp. xii, [2], 42, [1]. Decorative embossed sheepskin binding resembling gaol cell, lettered in gilt along spine. All edges red. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Before he fled to Paris, Oscar Wilde had spent some time in Reading Gaol not far from Oxford. There, […] €250.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Second edition. Large post octavo. pp. [4], 31, [1]. Deckled edges. Printed at the Chiswick, but no printers’ imprint is shown. Dutch Van Gelder paper. Quarter white linen on cinnamon colour linen boards, gilt lettering to spine. A fine copy in mylar wrapper. Extremely rare. JISC with 3 locations only. Not […] €1,250.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth, 1930. Crown octavo. First issue in the New Reader’s Library. pp. 121. Bound by Riviere in full calf, covers framed by a border of three gilt fillets, rose tool in gilt at corners; board edges ruled in gilt; turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and author […] €675.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde (Limited edition in fine binding) Including Poems in Prose with Notes, Bibliographical Introduction, Index and Facsimiles of Title-Pages. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908. First Mosher edition. Limited to 750 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 394, [2], with portrait frontispiece and seven leaves of plates, including facsimiles. Finely bound in full red crushed morocco, boards […] €875.00 |
 | WILDE, Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde Twelve volumes. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1925. Demy octavo. Titlepages printed in blue and black, each with a pale blue profile portrait of Wilde in the centre. Half-titles and imprint pages present. Superbly bound in contemporary half red morocco, over cloth sides ruled in gilt. Spines divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, […] €4,750.00 |
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