Wilde Oscar Text (12 results)

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First US edition thus illustrated. Hardcover. Small quarto. Fine in like dustjacket a little rubbed at extremities. Pen and ink drawings by Leonard Lubin. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $3 ($8 overseas), so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Spine background colour slightly faded, not affecting lettering, o/w fine in pictorial boards as issued. Wilde's famous story of friendship, published on the centenary of its first publication, with wonderful India ink wash drawings by Franta.

Condition: Befriedigend. Jahr: c1943. Einband: Kartoniert. Beschreibung: VN/Pl. no. A. 5503 F. Copyright 1905 by Adolph Fürstner, renewed 1933 by Adolph Fürstner, assigned to Boosey & Hawkes 1943. 30,5 x 23,5 cm. Rücken oben und unten mit Fehlstellen. Umschlag gelockert, beinahe vom Heftblock gelöst, etwas knickspurig und vorn mit kl. Wasserfleck. Blätterstellen etwas (finger-)fleckig, Schnitt und die äußeren Blätter etwas braunfleckig. Ein Blatt geklebt. Einzelne Bleistifteintragungen, sonst innen sauber erhalten. Sprache: de. 203 S.…

First Australian edition thus illustrated (published in the same format in US by Picture Book Studio and in the UK by Neugebauer Press). Signed by the illustrator. Hardcover. Quarto. Endpapers heavily foxed, otherwise very good in pictorial boards and dustjacket as issued. The classic tale by Wilde, beautifully illustrated in colour by the gifted and prolific Austrian artist whose style channels 19th/early 20th Century artists such as Rackham and Pogany. Zwerger has flat-signed the back flap of the jacket below her photograph and biographical details. …

Dust Jacket Condition: Gut. Jahr: c1943. Einband: Kartoniert. Beschreibung: c1943 - VN/Pl. no. A. 5503 F. Copyright 1905 by Adolph Fürstner, renewed 1933 by Adolph Fürstner, assigned to Boosey & Hawkes 1943. 30,5 x 23,5 cm. Umschlag berieben. Unterer Rücken lädiert. Einzelne Eintragungen mit rotem Buntstift und Blei, sonst innen sauber erhalten. Sprache: de. 203 S.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No 102 of 1,000 copies. 4to in faux vellum backed, burgundy cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed portrait sketch to front cover (after a design by Braby). 99 pp on thick art paper, frontispiece, and 5 other full page colour wood engravings by Braby. 1st printing with these illustrations . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (top edge of page block slightly dusty) in the original plain semi-opaque tissue wrapper which is a very little edge-nicked. The book was published without a slip-case or printed dust jacket. An excellent copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

[28] S., Quart 29cm, farbig illustrierte, kartonierte Ausgabe, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Exemplar am Einband teils minimal nachgedunkelt, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. 1st edition. Abstract black and white photographs inspired by the famous novel `Salome` by Oscar Wilde. Copy 124 of 500 limited copies. With slipcase. Cover and text in good condition. Slipcase corner ripped about 8 cm. Original plastic cover on slipcase. Small stains on the slipcase plastic. No shipping box. Text in Japanese and Greek. Extremely rare. Ichimura, Tetsuya (photographer) ; Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator) (illustrator). Used book. …

Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First Catalan edition. Quarto (10 3/4 x 7 1/2"). 80, [4]pp. Striking contemporary Art Nouveau binding in full crushed morocco, signed by J. M. Romeo. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges gilt and marbled. Original decorative red wrappers bound in. Illustrated title in red lettering. Hand-colored decorative headpieces and tailpiece. Book housed in its original morocco lined marbled paper covered slipcase. This striking first Catalan-language edition of Oscar Wilde's tragedy in one act "Salome" is splendidly illustrated throughout with 6 partly hand-colored headpieces, and one tailpiece by Catalan artist Adrià Gual. "Salome" tells the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrach Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils. Slipcase partly rubbed along edges. Binding with front cover partly discolored. Text in Catalan. Slipcase in overall good, binding in good- to good, interior in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. No jacket. 1st edition. Abstract black and white photographs inspired by the famous novel `Salome` by Oscar Wilde. Copy 166 of 500 limited copies. With slipcase and shipping box. Cover and text in good condition. Small stains on the plastic cover of the slipcase. Tears on the base and stains on the shipping box. Some mold stains on the slipcase. Still has original plastic wrapping on the box and book. Extremely rare with plastic cover. Text in Japanese and Greek. Ichimura, Tetsuya (photographer) ; Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator) (illustrator). Used book. …

Brosch. 8°, 118 S., 4 Bl. Verlagsanzeigen. Einband gebräunt u. randknittrig sowie am Hinterdeckel etw. fleckig, Vorderdeckel knickspurig, Papier gebräunt; unaufgeschnittenes Ex. 21. bis 25. Auflage. (= Siesta).