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Price: US$1017.34 + shipping
Description: Unpag., quarto, cloth with gold, lavishly illustrated and decorated by Alastair, hand-made paper, this edition is limited to 1'000 copies and cannot be reprinted as the stones from which offset plates were printed were in Belgium at the time of the German invasion and were destroyed. Cover with sight traces of wear, otherwise fine. - - - BITTE BEACHTEN SIE: Auf Grund der besonderen Versandkostenvorgaben von AbeBooks und ZVAB (der Preis richtet sich nicht nach Gewicht, sondern nach Anzahl der Artikel), kann es bei schwereren oder mehrbändigen Werken zu höheren Portokosten kommen. BEI UNSICHERHEIT FRAGEN SIE UNS BITTE ZUVOR AN. - - - PLEASE NOTE: Because of AbeBooks' and ZVAB?S special requirements for shipping fees (price is per item, not per weight) shipping charges may be higher with heavy books or when comprising several volumes. PLEASE CONTACT US BEFOREHAND IN CASE OF UNCERTAINTY. - - - 850 g 1
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$1019.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Superb illustrations! First limited edition, in gilt printed cream buckram, gilt title to spine, light edge finger marking. Internally, half title, frontis, [1], 36 pp, 12 pls (each with a printed guard), 13 large initial letters, all coloured in black & teal, t.e.g., remainder uncut, cover designed design by Charles Ricketts, pencil name to fpd (B Wood 1921), some light offsetting to fep. (299*226 mm). Wilde first published the Spinx in 1894, and this edition is limited to 1,000 copies & cannot be reprinted, as the stones from which the offset plates were printed were in Belgium at the time of the German invasion, and were destroyed.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Alastair; Wilde, Oscar. THE SPHINX. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1920.
Price: US$1820.11 + shipping
Description: Illustrated and decorated by Alastair. Pp. 36, frontispiece and 10 plates with lettered tissue guards, plus 2 extra folding plates functioning as free endpapers, 13 large decorative initials, all printed in teal & black, as is the title page; med. 4to; white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in gilt & teal, lightly soiled, the edges slightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; contemporary gift inscription in ink on upper free endpaper, a couple of short edge splits, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1920. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. *With the publisher's blind 'Review Copy' stamp at head of title page. The Sphinx was originally published in 1894, although in the introductory note to this volume, Robert Ross states that it was written 'before Oscar Wilde's first volume was issued in 1881'. Alastair was the pseudonym of Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969). According to the publisher's note on the limitation page, the stones from which the plates were printed were in Belgium at the time of the German invasion and were destroyed during the war.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia