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. SELECTED POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE, INCLUDING THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.. Methuen, London Uk 0, 1925.
Price: US$22.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 13th.* Date of Publication: 1925* Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dull blue cloth, gilt title to spine with blind impressed logo to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, a few light spots, some age & slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 163 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1854 to the wealthy and witty Jane Francesca Wilde (a writer known as ?Speranza?) and Dr. William Wilde. After starring at Trinity College, Dublin, in Classics, he won a scholarship to Oxford in 1874. A genius who fairly ranked himself as a genius, he published poems & plays, toured and lectured and made his name with a number of popular plays in his forties. His name remains a by-word for social commentary by sharp wit.* A NEAR VG+ copy of this 13th. edition with some minor faults but without a dust jacket.* 1925-01-01
Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Methuen & Company, 1925.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 43 of 450 numbered limited editions. Lean, heavy foxing, toning and staining, light rubbing and bumps, bare corners, offsetting on endpapers. Uncommon. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 62 pages
Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition of this rare Wilde title. Royal octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. One of 450 numbered copies, this is number 16. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. "Wildeâs âtheme is not, as is often supposed, artâs divorce from life, but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wildeâs essays is in make-believe, the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure, his created world contains much painâ (Ellmann, xvi).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$776.10 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 57 S. 7 großform. + diverse kleinere Abb. unbeschnittenes Ex. SU am Buchrücken gerissen u. insgesamt gebräunt. Das Buch selbst befindet sich dagegen in einem sehr guten Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420 gebundene Ausgabe, Halbleinen, SU. This Edition is limited to 450 numbered copies of which this is no. 283.
Seller: Druckwaren Antiquariat, Salzwedel, Germany
Price: US$832.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 57, [9]. numerous woodcuts (some full-page) by Frans Masereel. tipped-in bibliographical note. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (some light wear, small chip in outer edge of frontis., ownership entry on front blank & 2 bookplates). Limited to 50 numbered copies.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1322.89 + shipping
Description: With Woodcuts by Frans Masereel. London, Methuen & Co. 1924 recte: 1925 . Mit 37 (7 ganzseitigen) Originalholzschnitten von Frans Masereel. Kl.-4°. 57 S., 4 Bl. Schöner handgebundener Halblederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und Blindprägung auf dem Rücken sowie Kopfgoldschnitt. Im Schuber. -Eins von 50 num. Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe,(dieses hat die Nr.37). - Auf Bütten gedruckt für Methuen & Co., London, von der Mandruck A. G. in München.-Erste Ausgabe - Ritter 29 I und v. d. Gabelentz C 47 I kennen diese Vorzugsausgabe nicht. - Schönes Exemplar.- !! Nur auf Anfrage , Lieferung außerhalb der Europäschischen UNION !!
Seller: Stammerjohann/Birgitta Meise, Hamburg, HAM, Germany