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Wilde, Oscar. De Profundis. Methuen & Co., London, 1908.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: One of 1000 copies on hand made paper, part of the 14 volume set issued under the Editorship of Robert Ross as the First Complete Edition of The Works of Oscar Wilde. Ross, to whom the manuscript was handed by Wilde on the day he left prison, has provided material printed here for the first time. These inlcude A Prefatory Dedication to Dr. Max Meyerfield and Four Letters written to Ross from Reading Prison. At the end are two letters on Prison Life collected from periodical appearance in 1897 and 1898. This volume was issued as Volume XI of the Works, but as in all volumes of the set, there is no volume number on the title page, and none on the binding. This is a very attractive untrimmed copy, with fully gilt spine decoration, in early 20th c. red calf. With the important additional matter, it stands comfortably on its own as a single volume.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Works (6 of 14 volumes). Methuen & Co, London, 1908.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, Six of the Fourteen volumes issued in the first collected edition. This is the very scarce vellum edition printed on Japanese vellum and bound in limp vellum gilt titled. Titles are as follows "The Duchess of Padua", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "Miscellanies", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "Reviews", "Salome A Florentine Tragedy, and Vera". "The Picture of Dorian Gray was published by Charles Carrington in Paris. Very good in limp vellum withlight foxing to the exterior. Bookplate in each. One of 80 sets bound in vellum Mason p460

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar.. The Works. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. WITH: For the Love of the King (Methuen, 1922). 15 vols.. Methuen; Paris: Charles Carrington. 1908/1922, 1908.

Price: US$5432.10 + 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

Wilde, Oscar. The Works of Oscar Wilde.. Methuen & Co, Ltd./Paris: Charles Carrington 1908-1922, London, 1908.

Price: US$6000.00 + shipping

Description: Complete set of the works of Oscar Wilde, including For Love of a King issued in 1922 and often missing from this set. Octavo, 15 volumes in the publisher's original gilt-decorated full buckram, top edge gilt with others uncut. One of 1000 copies issued on handmade paper. The Picture of Dorian Gray bears the imprint of Charles Carrington of Paris while the rest bear Methuen and Co. In near fine condition. Very rare with the inclusion of the 15th volume. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar.. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.. LondonMethuen & Co. & ParisCharles Carrington The Picture of Dorian Gray ., 1908.

Price: US$20792.73 + shipping

Description: FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 80 SETS ON JAPANESE VELLUM. 14 volumes. Demy 8vo.(20.5 x 15 cm). Publisher's original limp vellum bindings, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, upper covers with designs by Charles Ricketts, yap edges, top edges gilt. Ex libris William Forbes Morgan with his bookplate to front pastedowns. Some trivial soiling to vellum, Salome with a light splash of red to upper cover, contents exceptionally clean and fresh, overall an excellent, bright set. A fine set of this first collected edition in its most desirable format, on Japanese vellum. "The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional matter which had not previously been reprinted, while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time.Some of the volumes contain matter whic, owing to the exigencies of copyright and other difficulties, is not included in any other edition" (Mason). Complete sets in the original binding and in such excellent condition seldom appear on the market. "The first collected edition of Wilde's works was issued in 1908 with 14 volumes, 13 with the imprint of Methuen & Co., and one, The Picture of Dorian Gray, with the imprint of Charles Carrington, Paris. The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional material which had not previously been reprinted, while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time Some of the volumes contain matter which is not included in any other edition" (Mason, 459). This set collects such classics as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Happy Prince, Salome, and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as numerous essays and poems. This edition was edited by Robert Ross, Wilde's long-time intimate friend and literary executor. [Mason 421, 424, 426, 428, 430, 432, 434, 436, 438, 440, 442, 444, 446 and 448]

Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom