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Oscar Wilde. Criticisms and reviews (The writings of Oscar Wilde). Gabriel Wells, 1925.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Description: 500 pages. vg/vg, large paper, but this vol. only.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 9 only. Book has moderately age worn with scuffs, soils, edge wear, etc. Overall an adequate readable copy.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Oscar Wilde. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. Gabriel Wells, New York City, 1925.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue paper covers are mostly clean, with gilt border, decoration and text. Some corners are bumped. See photos. Spines have tan labels with black text and are bright with ends bumped, crushed, chipped, or softened. See photos. Bindings are secure. Volume 1 shows signs of separation at back cover. See photos. Pastedowns and feps are gently age toned at gutters. Interiors exhibit minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, gilt along head, are a little dusty. Some pages have unopened edges. DJs are blue paper to match covers, with tan spine labels. Dust jackets have edgewear, bumping along foot, closed tears along head edge especially at shoulders. Volume 1 has stains to front cover; Volume 8 has a circular mark to front cover.** PS2023.0412** 5.75 x 8.75 inches** The Large Paper Edition of The Writings of Oscar Wilde. Twelve volumes, handsomely produced, on very nice paper. Original dust jackets show some wear, but they have protected the covers beneath.** Vol. 1: Poems. Intro by Richard Le Gallienne; Vol. 2: Vera, or The Nihilists, and The Duchess of Padua. Intro by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson; Vol. 3: The Happy Prince and other Fairy Tales. Intro by W.B. Yeats; Vol. 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Intro by Coulson Kernahan, Review by Walter Pater; Vol. 5: Intentions. Intro by Edgar Saltus; Vol. 6: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories. With Intros by Richard Butler Glaenzer and Dr. Clifford Smyth; Vol. 7: Lady Windermere's Fan, and A Woman of No Importance. Intro by A.B. Walkley; Vol. 8: The Importance of Being Earnest, and An Ideal Husband. Intro by John Drinkwater; Vol. 9: Salome, La Sainte Courtisane, and A Florentine Tragedy. Intro by Arthur Symons; Vol. 10: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Other Essays. Intro by John Cowper Powys; Vol. 11: De Profundis, Lecures and Essays. Intros by Michael Monahan and W.F. Morse; Vol. 12: Criticisms and Reviews. Intro by Padraic Colum.** The Large Paper Edition. Copy number 462/575 copies. Printed at The Country Life Press, Garden City, NY.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009677"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Copy Number #36 of 575 numbered sets of this Large Paper Edition. 12 vols. 8vo. A finely bound set of this collection of Wilde's writings, with supplementary material by Wilde's contemporaries in each volume (W.B. Yeats, Walter Pater, John Cowper Powys, John Drinkwater, Arthur Symons, Padraic Colum, et al.). Bound in three quarter brown morocco and cloth sides, t.e.g. by Stikeman & Co., N.Y Copy Number #36 of 575 numbered sets of this Large Paper Edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Oscar Wilde. The Writings of Oscar Wilde. Gabriel Wells, 1925.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: THIS COMPLETE 12 VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY PUBLISHER IN 3/4 CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH 2 TONE MARBLING TO BOARDS, BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND DECORATIVE LEATHER INLAID SPINES. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING. BOOKS MEASURE 9"x6". LARGE PAPER LIMITED EDITION #259 OF 575, 98 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING SET IN SCARCE BINDING.
Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. The Writings of Oscar Wilde (in 12 vols). Gabriel Wells, New York, 1925.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 575 numbered copies, this set being number 179. Twelve octavo volumes (221 x 143 mm.). Handsomely bound by Stikeman & Co., N.Y. ca. 1925 (stamp-signed in black on front endpapers). Full dark green crushed morocco, covers decoratively bordered and tooled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Red and green liners elaborately bordered and lettered in gilt, red moire silk end- leaves, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines uniformly faded to olive green, small circular stain on front board of volume one. Title pages printed in pale blue and black, each carrying a profile portrait of Wilde in pale blue. A Near Fine set. The handsomely produced Large Paper Edition was put out by the celebrated New York bookseller Gabriel Wells who, during the 1920s, competed in the sale rooms with the great A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952). It includes introductory material by several literary luminaries including W. B. Yeats (The Happy Prince), Padraic Colum (Criticisms and Reviews), John Drinkwater (The Importance of Being Ernest/An Ideal Husband), Arthur Symons (Salome), and Wilde's one-time lover Richard Le Gallienne (Poems).
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.