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Wilde, Oscar. The Poems of Oscar Wilde. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Spine is slightly sun-faded - gilt lettering is still easily legible. ; This is copy number 1836 of this limited edition of 2000 copies. Top edge gilt, and bright gilt lettering and decorations on blue board. Double gilt ruled borders on front board. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. 16 illustrations, eight in color with all tissue guards present. Some pages uncut. ; Color Plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages

Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.

WIlde, Oscar; De Bosschere, Jean [Illustrator]. THE POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 336 pages. In Good plus condition with Good dust jacket. Sunned brown spine with gilt text. Housed in publisher's Fair blue slipcase. Slipcase has partial splitting to all edges, moderate edgewear and shelfwear, and spine label peeling. Dust jacket has heavy sunning to spine, fading to covers, and mild edgewear and shelfwear. Boards have bumping to corners. Textblock has light uneven age toning and foxing to edges and to some pages. RWO. 1371854. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar; Bosschere, Jean de (illustrator). The Poems of Oscar Wilde. Boni & Liveright, Inc., New York, NY, 1927.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 336 pages, tall 8vo. Scarce. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, of which this is no.1634. Printed by Van Rees Press. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere. Color plates by Andrew H. Kellogg Co., New York. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine, gilt border design and image of bird on front cover. Shelfwear: light scuffing along cover edges, light spine fade and tanning. Tightly bound, no marks. Some pages remain uncut. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar. The Poems of Oscar Wilde. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Limited Edition. Royal Octavo. In dustjacket. Blue cloth binding with stamped, gilt bands, designs, and lettering to front cover and spine. Limited Edition of 2,000 copies. Illustrated by Jean De Bosschere. "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde(16 October 1854? 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for hisepigramsand plays, his novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death." Very Good in Good dustjacket. Lacks frontis piece. Nicked cloth piece to lower front cover. Quarter sized chip to lower spine end of dustjacket. Binding tight. Foxing to endpapers.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar. The Poems Oscar Wilde.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: First Bosschere edition of the poems of Oscar Wilde. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt with other untrimmed, illustrated with 8 color plates and 8 black and white plates. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this is number 1647. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a large loss to the front panel. Wilde’s “theme is not, as is often supposed, art’s 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 Wilde’s 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 pain” (Ellmann, xvi).

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