Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$291.86 + shipping
Description: First ed, Limited to 800 copies. 59pp. imp.8vo. original cream cloth with pictorial gilt decorations after a design by Ricketts
Seller: SUBUN-SO BOOK STORE, ABAJ-ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: First limited edition, incl. colophon No. 278 of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. Jones at The Dolphin Press, cover designed by Charles Ricketts, typography by Francis Meynell. 8vo., pp: 60,[4], title page illustration in red [by Stephen Gooden], bookplate of Helen & Michael Oppenheimer to front endpaper, gilt decorated cream coloured boards after design by Ricketts, endpapers browned, & browned from glue to inner edge of title page, otherwise sound, tight and very bright, very good. Ricketts memoir of Wilde. 'Dreyfus 8A'. Jean Paul Raymond, a fictitious character created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate of his friend Oscar Wilde.
Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: First edition. Royal octavo. 60 pages. Of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at The Dolphin Press this is one of 600 for distribution in England - the remaining 200 were sold by Random House in America. Original white buckram with elaborate pictorial gilt on both covers by Charles Ricketts. Typography also by Ricketts. The memoir was wholly his work, the fictional Jean Paul Raymond being a literary artifice. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Front free and rear endpapers and penultimate blank tanned and spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit chipped at head and tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.78 + shipping
Description: 1 of 800 numbered copies. Tall 8vo., orig. white buckram withelaborate pictorial decorations in gilt designed by Ricketts, (60)pp. Some offsetting on the pastedowns o/w a fine copy lacking the black dustwrapper. Dreyfus 81.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition, 271/800 copies: Hardback, cream bds., gold illustrations designed by Charles Ricketts, gold spinal titles, 160 x 260 mm., 400g., 60 pp., hand-made laid -on paper, unicorn imprint on ffep., NONESUCH on frep., title-page with illustration in red, Typography by Francis Meynell, gilt top page-edges, Fine copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Ricketts, Charles & Jean Paul Raymond. Oscar Wilde Recollections. Nonesuch Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 60 pages. 26 x 16 cm. A fictitious character, Jean Paul Raymond, created by Ricketts enabling him to reveal his displeasure at the fate of his friend, Oscar Wilde. Decorative title page in red and black. Limited edition, copy 512 of 800. The cover was designed by Charles Ricketts, the typography by Francis Meynell. Introductory Note by Thomas Lowinsky. Front and back free endpapers toned, otherwise fine. Orig. gilt decorated white cloth in classical motifs, gilt title. Teg. Fine in very good, spine nicked black cloth dust wrapper, spine printed in gilt.
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$401.53 + shipping
Description: By Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts. Note by Thomas Lowinsky. Pp. 60+[4](last colophon), publisher's large device on title page printed in red; roy. 8vo; white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, boards decorated in gilt with a striking Art Deco design by Ricketts, cloth faintly soiled, spine slightly darkened and a trifle frayed at foot; uncut, the top edges gilt on the rough; lacking the dust wrapper; upper hinge tender, free endpapers offset, the text block faintly browned and occasionally slightly soiled; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1932. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies, printed by Geo. W. Jones at the Dolphin Press. McKitterick 81. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label above the earlier bookplate of 'Eddie' on the upper pastedown. In his introductory note, Thomas Lowinsky explains that 'Jean Paul Raymond' was previously used by Ricketts in 1929 in Beyond the Threshold. In the present volume Ricketts 'introduces this imaginary author into his own recollections of Oscar Wilde. Although the setting is invented the episodes and conversations were conscientiously taken from the diaries and letters that he had kept. By this artifice Ricketts created a sympathetic audience for his words of passionate indignation at the fate of his friend' [p. 7].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Raymond, Jean Paul & Charles Ricketts. Oscar Wilde Recollections. Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1932.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Number 773 of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at the Dolphin Press; cover design by Charles Ricketts, typography by Francis Meynell. Title page illustration in red [by Stephen Gooden]. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ricketts memoir of Wilde. Dreyfus 8A Gilt decorated cream colored boards after design by Ricketts. Fine Title page illustration in red [by Stephen Gooden]. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, Number 773 of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at the Dolphin Press; cover design by Charles Ricketts, typography by Francis Meynell.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: Number 773 of 800 copies; tall 8vo (26 x 15.5 cm); title with vignette printed in red; original near-white cloth gilt, designed by Ricketts, top edge gilt, others uncut, a bright & sharp copy. A fine copy of Charles Ricketts' recollections of Oscar Wilde for the Nonesuch Press. Charles Ricketts was a well-known artist/illustrator and typographer, most famous perhaps for his creation of The Dial (co-founded with his partner Charles Shannon), and for his work with the Vale Press. His name is often synonymous with that of Oscar Wilde as he was one of the two illustrators primarily associated with Wilde's work, the other of course being Aubrey Beardsley. He and Shannon were friends & supporters of Wilde, for whom Ricketts painted the hero of Wilde's short story The Portrait of Mr. W.H. 'Jean Paul Raymond' was an imaginary author first introduced by Ricketts in his privately issued work Beyond the Threshold (1929). The typography was designed by Francis Meynell, and the book was printed at the Dolphin Press, six hundred copies being for sale in England and two hundred to Random House for sale in America. Dreyfus 8A.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.93 + shipping
Description: Limited edition number 575 (ex. 800). L.P. Outstanding gilt vellum binding designed by Rickets and with the scarce original dark D.J. which has preserved the original luminous sheen of the binding.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Jean Paul Raymond, Charles Ricketts. Oscar Wilde: Recollections. Nonesuch Press, 1932.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1932 Nonesuch Press in the original black jacket. Tight and unmarked slender hardcover. #74 of edition of 800. C27 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$606.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 800 copies. Nonesuch device in red on title page by Stephen Gooden. Small folio, 16.5 x 26.5cm, original cream coloured cloth decorated in gilt after Ricketts, t.e.g., plain black dustjacket with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, spectactularly bright copy in very good jacket, with small chip at top of spine and slight wear at corners. London, The Nonesuch Press. A biographical essay by Charles Ricketts, writing under the pseudonym of Jean Paul Raymond, published posthumously and with a design intended to pay homage to the books of the Vale Press. Ricketts had been a friend of Oscar Wilde and designed and edited his collection of poems The Sphinx; in Dreyfus' words 'this was the only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private press movement of those years.' Dreyfus 81.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom