Importance Being Earnest by Wilde Oscar, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Tony Walton (illustrator). Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound dos-a-dos in full green buckram with the spine stamped in dark green and pure gold and the covers lettered in gilt, top and bottom edges gilt. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud. Illustrated by Tony Walton with 14 in-text line drawings, 6 full-page paintings, and 4 double-spread paintings. Copy #457 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Mild spotting to the cloth. Very Good in worn glassine and a Very Good slipcase.

First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition. Number 1332 from an edition of 1500 copies. Bound dos a dos. Features an introduction by Sir John Gielgud. Includes illustrations by Tony Walton. A fine copy in green cloth boards with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club and in a very good glassine dust jacket with some small chips and edge wear in a very good plus slipcase with some slight wear. Signed by Tony Walton on the limitation page. Attractive edition of these two plays.

The 11th book from the 40th Series, this being #720 of 1500 copies. Introduction by Sir John Gielgud and signed and illustrated by Tony Walton. book design by Bernard Roberts and printed at the John Roberts Press. Set in monotype Ehrhardt on soft white mould made Cartiere Enrico paper. Bound in dos-a-dos by Tapley-Rutter Company in full drak greeb buckram. 292 pages Line Drawings and paintings printed by Holyoke Lithograph Company. A fine copy in a very good slipcase Print info from 1985 Bibliography and Snyman - Grossman LEC Checklist #457.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Thus. A beautiful copy of this very fine collectible edition of these two works by Wilde. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Tony Walton (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. Top & Bottom Edges gilt. Two of Wilde's best-known plays bound dos-a-dos in one volume. Illustrated in color by Tony Walton who has signed the book on the limitation page. Limited to 1500 copies, housed in the original slipcase which is fine save for a few white marks on one panel. LEC newsletter and prospectus laid in. Size: Large Thick 8vo. Signed by Illustrator.

In publisher's green cloth. Signed by the illustrator. With 6 full-page and several text illustrations. In publisher's green cloth. 78 [2] p. Association copy, inscribed to the American socialite and fashion icon, Mona von Bismarck and her husband, Count Albrecht Eduard "Eddie" von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (1904-1980) was an English photographer, painter, illustrator, writer, and designer. Besides regularly working as a photographer for Condé Nast publications, such as the Vogue, he pursued a career as a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He won three Academy Awards for his art directorial work as well as for his costume designs. Mona von Bismarck (1897-1983) was a long-time friend of Beaton. . Cover somewhat rubbed at edges. Otherwise in fine condition. Signed by the illustrator. With 6 full-page and several text illustrations.

Condition: Near Fine. Signed Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. [xii], 152 pp. Bound in publisher's original pale lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Copy number 82 of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde with a flourish. Near Fine with subtle sunning, several barely discernible spots to cloth, short bubble to rear cloth. Typical offsetting to endpapers, and a 5" tear to the rear endpaper. Contents bright and fresh. A beautiful copy. Wilde's masterpiece, which opened to wide acclaim at the St. James's Theatre, London, on February 14, 1895. It was withdrawn after 86 performances following his arrest and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency as a consequence of his failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury, the father of Wilde's homosexual lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He was outed as gay (a disgrace in Victorian society) and the play was not published in any form until the present edition, following his release from prison. It has been hailed as an exemplary farce, called by poet W.H. Auden "a pure verbal opera.".