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Oscar Wilde. A Woman of No Importance : A Play. Methuen, London, 1908.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of a limited edition of 1000 copies on handmade paper. Green cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. One or two minor surface marks on cover. Text clean and unmarked, with slight age-fading. An excellent used copy with no major flaws. 191 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Drama; Vellum printed books; Aristocracy (Social class); English drama; Man-woman relationships; Add. Inventory No: 231112PBUPC084.
Seller: Barnaby, Oxford, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - A PLAY ABOUT A GOOD WOMAN. Methuen and Co., London, 1908.
Price: US$202.99 + shipping
Description: Discoloration on the spine, some spotting on the inside page, and; 183 pages
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$230.90 + shipping
Description: , [12], 191 pages, limited edition of 1000 on handmade paper for the US and UK Limited Edition , light rubbing to corners and spine, spine darkened and gilt somewhat worn, edges untrimmed, light foxing to prelims, very good condition , cream cloth, gilt titles and illustrations to front, gilt titles to spine, gilt top edge , octavo, 22 x 16 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 1,000 copies printed on handmade paper. Cream buckram with gilt spine titling, upper board titled in gilt and blocked with three gilt roundels by Charles Shannon, gold top, other edges unut. Spine just slightly soiled. Bookplate of Morwenna Trefusis. A very good crisp copy. (Mason 445) Issued as the final (fourteenth) volume of the first collected edition of Wilde's Work. Contents include: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877 & 1879; Women's Dress; More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform; Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock; Sermons in Stones at Bloomsbury; Sculpture at the Arts and Crafts; Printing and Printers; The Beauties of Bookbinding; English Poetesses; London Models. There is a selection of letters, unpublished manuscripts and lectures ('Art and the Handicraftsman').
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. Methuen and Co., London, 1908.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Methuen and Co., 1908. This upper-class satire was requested of Wilde by Henry Beerbohm-Tree after the success of "Lady Windermere's Fan" and was first published in 1894. This is a Very Good copy of a new edition LIMITED to 1000 copies on handmade paper. Scarce. White cloth binding, titling and decorations on the front cover in gilt. Clean text; 191 pages. Top-edge is gilt, others rough-cut. Contains a cast list from the 1893 production at the Haymarket. Due to the white cloth, shows soiling; the spine has darkened and the gilt titling has faded. . Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Oscar Wilde. A Woman of No Importance. Methuen and Co, London UK, 1908.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Limited edition of 1000 on handmade paper for the US and UK, printed as part of a set of 14 by Methuen. Bound in finely woven white linen cloth stamped in gold with 3 gold decorated circles on the front boards and gilt to spine. This copy has not suffered from the normal darkening of the spine and loss of gilt. Very light markings to the boards. Browning of front free page. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Slight lean to the book. Clean contents with no foxing.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Oscar Wilde. Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman.. Methuen and Co, 1908.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A bright copy with a darkened spine. Lower spine bumped. Page edges and blank endpapers browned. Booksellers label (10x15mm) to inside back cover. Light foxing to very few of the pages. Appears unread and unopened. More images on request.
Seller: Langton Books, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: , 13 volumes of a 14 volume set on handmade paper, limited edition of 1000 Limited Edition , missing Dorian Grey from the set, corners and spines lightly bumped, spines sunned, untrimmed edges, foxing to endpapers and occasionally to pages, good condition , cream cloth, gilt titles top front and spine, gilt illustrations to fronts, gilt top edges , octavo, 22 cm x 16 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$5361.94 + shipping
Description: Half titles. Partially uncut & uniformly bound in orig. white buckram, lettered in gilt, three gilt roundels by Charles Ricketts on front boards; all volumes sl. dusted & spines a bit darkened apart from 'Reviews' which is sl. brighter. 10 vols. with bookseller's ticket of 'Andreas Jsler, Buchhandlung & Leihbibliothek, St. Petersburg' on leading pastedowns, 'Reviews' with pictorial bookplate of 'J. Hodges' on leading pastedown. A nice set in original cloth. t.e.g. One of 1000 copies on handmade paper. The complete set of the First Collected Edition of Wilde's works, edited by Robert Ross. The set is comprised of (with Mason reference numbers): The Duchess of Padua (Mason 420), Salome, A Florentine Tragedy, and Vera (423), Lady Windermere's Fan (425), A Woman of No Importance (427), An Ideal Husband (429), The Importance of Being Earnest (431), Lord Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces (433), Intentions and the Soul of Man (435), Poems (437), A House of Pomegranates, The Happy Prince, and Other Tales (439), De Profundis (441), The Picture of Dorian Gray (443, published by Charles Carrington, Paris), Reviews (445), and Miscellanies (447). The fifteenth volume is For the Love of the King; Methuen claimed it was a newly discovered play by Wilde, and published it in the same format as the first collected edition in 1922. The authorship of the work was widely contested, and resulted in a legal dispute between the publishers and Wilde's bibliographer, Stuart Mason (Christopher Sclater Millard).
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom