Robert Gorham Davis Intro (3 results)

Full Calf. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Easton Edition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed ox-blood cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 314, a.e.g. Illustrated with colour plates after paintings by James Hill. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines. In 1891 he published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde". "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun in 1887, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. It is a short story, which reports a conversation, in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were written out of the poet's love of the boy actor "Willie Hughes". The only evidence for this is two supposed puns within the sonnets themselves. In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Sheila Robinson (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In tan cloth with paper title label, housed in publisher's slipcase, 4to, 443pp. Copy #181 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies printed at The Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon Signed by the illustrator on colophon page. Signed By the Illustrator.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Avon: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited Edition, signed by illustrator Sheila Robinson and numbered 1742 of 2000 copies on colophon at back. Quarto; 488pp. Publisher's glassine jacket over full natural homespun Irish linen with cream paper spine label printed in black and red. LEC Monthly Letter laid in. Housed in gray paper-covered slipcase with matching paper spine label. Glassine jacket toned down spine, but crisp and clean with no chips or tears. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase is sturdy and solid with no splits.