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WILDE Oscar:. Impressions of America. Sunderland. Keystone Press. 1906., 1906.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: First edition string bound card covers. No dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies Edited with an introduction by Stuart Mason. 40pp. Book is in Very Good condition, lightly foxed. Securely packaged . Postage in the UK will be reduced to £2.00.
Seller: Gemini-Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Keystone Press, Sunderland, 1906. First Edition. A fair to good copy. The blue paper covers are chipped at the edges and detached. Internal foxing. Limited edition of 500 copies. 40 pages. Includes two previously unpublished poems by Wilde and a preface by Stuart Mason; cover has losses and is partially detached; rare books section
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: 50 copies on hand-made paper (this copy out-of-series), 8vo, (210x135mm), 40p, Original printed, pulp-decorated paper wrappers, slightly damaged at the tail of the front cover; preserved in a modern quarter cloth envelope chemise. Number one of the Oscar Wilde Bibelots. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if necessary the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar and Stuart Mason (ed.). IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Keystone Press: UK, 1906.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Description: 7.25 x 5", string-tied wraps, 40pp, MISSING ORIGINAL BLUE WRAPS, pp toned and a bit fragile, title page edge-torn and edge-chipped and soiled; a rather used copy in a well worn, extremity-fraying gilt-lettered cloth slipcase. SWAF. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edition limited to 500 copies. 40 pp. Contemporary marbled boards with leather title label to front board. Slight wear to spine ends & corners. With an introduction by Stuart Mason. Contemporary rebind, originally issued in wrappers. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. Impressions of America. Keystone Press, Sunderland, 1906.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906. Wilde visited America in 1882, lecturing there to explain the Aesthetic Movement. On his return to England he gave this "report" in September of 1883. Edited and with an introduction by Stuart Mason. (pseudonym of Christopher Millard, 1872-1927, who was the first bibliographer of Wilde's works). This is a Very Good (minus) copy of the First Edition, which was LIMITED to 500 copies, 50 on handmade paper. A rare work, bound in fragile, stitched paper wraps. Clean text; 40 pages, which are unopened. The covers have significant chips along the margins, and while present, they are currently detached. Please note the condition issue; Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of restoration or repair. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (Minus)/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. Impressions of America. Keystone Press, Sunderland, 1906.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906. Wilde visited America in 1882, lecturing there to explain the Aesthetic Movement. On his return to England he gave this "report" in September of 1883. Edited and with an introduction by Stuart Mason. (pseudonym of Christopher Millard, 1872-1927, who was the first bibliographer of Wilde's works). This is a Very Good (minus) copy of the First Edition, which was LIMITED to 500 copies, 50 on handmade paper. A rare work, bound in fragile, stitched paper wraps. Clean text; 40 pages. The cover is present, but detached. at the front. All other pages still nicely bound. This copy comes in a custom folder, within a slipcase, bound in green cloth. The spine of the case has titling in gilt, which is rubbed but still very readable. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. The lecture Wilde presented in 1883 shortly after his two American trips of 1882 and 1883. Ransom p. 261 Original blue printed wrappers, stitched. Faded, some chipping of corners and edges, light browning of leaves, else a good copy First edition. Number 92 of 50 copies printed on hand-made paper.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. Impressions of America.. Keystone Press, Sunderland, 1906.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Wilde's report on his lecture tour throughout America in 1882. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers. One of fifty numbered copies, this is number 24. Very good with the majority of the original dust jacket. 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.