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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. Lady Windermere's Fan. Methuen and Co, London, 1908.
Price: US$224.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Single volume from the collected works, edition of 1000 copies. Cream coloured cloth. Gilt lettering and designs by Charles Ricketts to the front board with gilt lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Lightly cocked, with a small black smudge to the rear board, else a fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
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. Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play about a Good Woman.. Methuen and Co, 1908.
Price: US$382.21 + 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$1592.55 + 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
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.
Price: US$5325.50 + 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
Price: US$20384.68 + 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