Sonnets by Douglas Alfred (35 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref.K3 ) Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Some slight rubbing to spine edges, corners and one or two small marks else very good. Previous owner's inscription to ffep and slightly yellowed page edges else main contents are unmarked.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. ---. nein.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The sonnets of lord alfred douglas, mini book ,scare, green cloth cover with gilt printed title, condition-good pages have sunning occasional light age spotting and markings page 55 small hole 0.3cm and front end papers has marking and book seller sticker (front end paper). the cover gilt title mainly in tact and general shelf-ware.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Heavy wear to the boards and spine; deterioration to the spine. Binding is shaken. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

copertina morbida. Condition: buone. Dust Jacket Condition: buone. Book Description: This complete and unabridged edition of The Sonnets provides a new look at Shakespeare's poems, encouraging students to work both individually and in groups to form their own responses to the sonnets. The activities and editorial comments cater for pupils of all ages and abilities, and provide clear and helpful guidelines for school study. Cambridge School Shakespeare offers a new and exciting approach to Shakespeare in the classroom. Based on extensive and successful trialling in the classroom, the series results from the most thorough research and development work by the Shakespeare and Schools Project with school and college students. HARBAGE ALFRED (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 216 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers yellowed. Illustrated frontispiece. Small stamp on the ffep. Grey hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Spine and edges yellowed and stained, corners bumped. GOOD. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Lyrics & Sonnets by Lord Alfred Douglas, Hardcover, UK, Limited Edition (2001). This edition consists of one hundred copies printed by Richard Healy on the hand-press at Right-Hand Press, Southbourne-on-Sea. The poems were set in Narrow Bembo Italic - case specially for this edition, with Centaur capitals. The prefatory matter was set in Centaur roman. Papier d' Arches, from the mill at Montval, was used. Binding by Frank Brown of Dorchester. The copy is unnumbered. Book in very good condition, without a dust jacket (as issued). The book has slight bumping to the spine ends. A lovely, tight and clean copy overall. (See pictures).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A bright first edition of this intriguing analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets, by English poet, journalist and lover of Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas. The first edition of this work, with no further edition remarks.In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a monochrome portrait frontispiece.This work offers the "true story" of Shakespeare's sonnets, being their contexts and analyses of the language used, particularly looking at those dedicated to Mr W. H.From Lord Alfred Douglas, an English poet and journalist who is also noted for his turbulent affair with Oscar Wilde, with surfaced intimate notes between the two being used as evidence against Wilde and later leading to his imprisonment.Douglas mentions Wilde in his work whilst drawing theories of other writers on the enigmatic Mr. W. H. whom Shakespeare has dedicated many sonnets to. Wilde attempts to uncover the identity of the dedicatee in his work, 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H'. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With fading to the cloth and a damp stain to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages. Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1933. Some very light foxing in places. Some very light fading around the edges of the publishers cloth, top of spine very lightly bumped, else very good in dustwrapper which is very slightly spine faded and with some light rubbing to edges, generally a very good + copy. Frontispiece. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of Lord Alfred Douglas' analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets, particularly of those dedicated to the enigmatic 'Mr. W. H.' The first edition of this work, with no further edition remarks.In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a monochrome portrait frontispiece.This work offers the "true story" of Shakespeare's sonnets, being their contexts and analyses of the language used. It looks particularly at those dedicated to Mr W. H, a figure whose theorised identity is discussed in this work.From Lord Alfred Douglas, an English poet and journalist who is also noted for his turbulent affair with Oscar Wilde, with surfaced intimate notes between the two being used as evidence against Wilde and later leading to his imprisonment.Douglas references Wilde's book 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H', which was his attempt to uncover the identity of the dedicatee in his work. Although known to have been Wilde's lover, Douglas' embrace of Catholicism led to a rejection of homosexuality, this being clear in his disagreement of theories that Mr. W. H. was Shakespeare's lover. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Darkening to the spine and light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Miniature. Pp: 77. First Edition thus. Publisher's grey dust jacket with black lettering and green illustrations at front and rear. Publisher's green boards lettered in gilt at front and spine. Very good plus in good dust jacket. Stain [approx. 2.5cm x 0.5cm] to rear dust jacket. Small stain [approx. 2cm x 0.3cm] to rear dust jacket at bottom edge. Small closed tear [approx. 0.5cm] to bottom fore corner of front dust jacket. Some light chipping with a little loss to dust jacket fore corners and top and bottom of spine. Toning to dust jacket spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London, The Richards Press Ltd., 1943 [second impression]/ 1935. Octavo, 84 pages plus a plate. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers slightly rubbed and marked; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned; ink ownership details to the front free endpaper; a very good copy. Many of the 42 sonnets are accompanied by footnotes (sometimes acerbic), several of which refer directly to Oscar Wilde or to Douglas' sentence in Wormwood Scrubs prison for libelling Winston Churchill. Any homoerotic references in Douglas' earlier sonnets have been assiduously rewritten.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 216pp, pages browning and a slight tobacco odour, otherwise sound, no inscriptions, grey cloth, gilt titles, slightly rubbed and bumped, Good condition in frayed dustwrapper, wrapper spine browning.

Condition: Very Good. 12vo. pp 77. Neat ownership name on the front end paper. Very good. First Edition Thus.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo 30pp., Nice engraved book plate on front paste down o/w a nice tight copy in slightly worn boards with bright gilt titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 216pp. Beige cloth w gilt title to spine lightly bumped at head and foot. Dust-jacket slightly stained and bumped and chipped around the edges w minor loss to foot of spine. Book-plate to fep. Contents clean, tight and bright, a very nice copy.…

The Richards Press, London 1943. Later edition. 84 pages. Orig. blue cloth, no wrappers. Near fine. * Lord Alfred Douglas was also known as Bosie Douglas, and as Oscar Wildes lover. It was the legal dispute with Bosie Douglas' father that ended with, Wildes imprisonment.

Small 8vo. 77, (3) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and upper board, later owner's signature to the front free endpaper, printed dust jacket. A little light wear to the jacket, very good overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Crushing to spine ends. Nil else of note externally. Dj rubbed at spine ends. Spine and top and fore edges sunned. Short tear to top edge of rear panel. See photos. 8vo, viii + 216pp, 450g. Frontispiece portrait (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. DJ - not price clipped - has pieces missing from top & bottom of spine; now protected by mylar jacket. PO inscription to fep, otherwise boards & pages are in great condition.

Condition: very good. London : The Richards Press, 1943. Orig. blue cloth binding. 84 pp. With 1 plate. 20x15 cm. - Later edition of anthology of sonnets written by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945), first published in 1935. Douglas, nicknamed Bosie, was an English author, poet and translator, better known as the friend and lover of Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. Condition : very good copy. Keywords : , Douglas, Alfred (1870-1945). …

"The Omar Series". Small format. 8.5 cm x 13 cm. Hardback in dustwrapper. Green cloth. Contents: a few corners slightly creased, otherwise very good and clean. Boards: very good and bright. Dustwrapper: one short closed tear and a few slight nicks. Light crease top edge. Slight browning. Otherwise very good, given thin paper nature of the dustwrapper. A very good, tight copy. 77 pp.…

1st edition hardback in original cloth Near Fine octavo 83pp., frontis., Nice copy of the scarce first impression of the first trade edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHERS GREY BOARDS, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 30 PAGES. VERY LIGHT WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, LIGHT MARKS TO BOARDS WITH CORNERS BUMPED, NAME TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH PAGES CLEAN & BINDING FIRM. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX. …

First edition. First edition. 30p. Printed on Aldwych paper. Beautifully rebound (albeit unsigned), the upper cover with gilt design of squares and rows of gilt blossoms and intertwined ribbons, an inner frame of onlaid green leather with floral circles at top and bottom of flower petals onlaid in tan, central title, the doublures of blue leather with large panel in green morocco with the initials "IC" or "CI", flyleaves of green morocco. NCBEL.3: 623. Flyleaves yellowed, else clean, binding fine.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Signed presentation copies of two volumes of poetry from Lord Alfred Douglas, accompanied by six letters from Douglas to Baroness Hazel Hergenhahn, containing frequent reference to the legacy of his relationship with Oscar Wilde First trade edition, first impression presentation copies of these two volumes of poetry from poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas, best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. These two volumes are both signed by Douglas, and are accompanied by six typed letters - on thirteen sheets - from Douglas, dated between 1939 and 1940.Both volumes are inscribed to the front free endpaper to Hazel Hergenhahn and dated 1943, with each letter addressed to the same. Baroness Hazel Hergenhahn, was a well travelled Californian of extensive cultural acquaintance, and a frequent correspondent of Douglas in his final years.The correspondence is lively, with frequent mentions of Oscar Wilde and the ongoing struggle around Douglas's own legacy and reputation. Douglas goes on to mentions his struggles with American publishers, and makes occasional reports on the Second World War.Among the passages relating to Wilde are: 'I mean that it is strictly true that I constantly gave O.W. money (over and above the cheques recorded in the appendix of my book) and that over and over again I gave him considerable sums in ready money in restaurants when I asked him to dinner. In fact, as related in my Autobiography, whenever I asked him to dine, in the last years of his life in Paris, I invariably gave him a sum of money.'In another letter he discusses the same topic: 'These cheques only represented a portion of the money I gave him as, as often as not, I gave him the money in notes at personal interviews (as recorded in the play, "Oscar Wilde"), she simply ignores all this and repeats all the "bunk" about O.T. being "left to starve". Wilde was better off financially in his last years than I am myself today.' About his anger at a new biography of Wilde, he explains ' Bernard Shaw says that I have "an infantile complex" and his special name for me is "Childe Alfred"!'.He also discusses Wilde's legacy and his distrust of Wilde's literary executor, Robbie Ross, in relation to the misinformation presented by this biography: 'She pretends to think that when I induced my Mother to give Wilde L200 when I left him in my villa in Naples that this was part of a "debt of honour" which is the most fantastic rubbish, even though she says that Wilde himself wrote a letter (which I have never seen) about it to the scoundrel Ross, whom I exposed in the criminal courts in London in 1914. Anyone who knows anything about Wilde knows that his letters to Ross after his conviction are not evidence, as he said to me one day and contradicted it flatly the next day, and Ross himself was a Prince of Traitors as well as a thief and a blackmailer as proved at the Old Bailey in 1914'. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with price unclipped dust wrappers. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with spotting to the cloth, most concentrated to 'Sonnets'. Inscriptions to front free endpapers. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strips and wrap perimeters, with small losses to back strip heads. Small closed tears to back strip heads of 'Lyrics'. Further minor loss to tail of 'Lyrics' volume. Mark to tail of front wrap of 'Sonnets', and head of front wrap of 'Lyrics'. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to title page of 'Lyrics', with light spotting to first few leaves of each volume. Pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Loosely inserted letters lightly age toned, with discolouration around the region of staple removal, and general edge wear Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Description: 215 pp., 1st edition, 1933, Publisher: Martin Secker, London. Publisher's pale olive cloth hardcover, gilt title stamped/embossed spine, blue dust jacket with dark blue stamped title accented by a geometric border pattern, protected by removable archival film. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1: Though Douglas' infamous intimate Oscar Wilde believed Hughes theory that the "fair youth" of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 'William Hughes (W.H.),' was William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Lord Alfred endorsed Butler's version, identified 'W.H.' as a ship's cook who died in 1636. Further, Lord Alfred elaborated his opinion on the identity of W.H. with discussion of homosexuality. Part 2: The sonnets with notes. Included is an exceptional related letter to the book that has no envelope, folded-in front free endpapers; it was an enclosure in a letter. In Lord Alfred's pursuit of an American publisher for this book, the un-addressed letter described Lord Alfred's inquiry as to knowledge of and influence of Marie Maloney, editor of the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday Magazine, 10 months post the English publication of The True History of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Martin Secker, 5 Adelphi Street, London. Underlying, speculatively to a degree, this letter provides insight into Lord Alfred's latter life endeavors, in aim to further dissociate himself from Wilde, by promotion of his writings 33 years after Wilde's death. As to the point, appreciably Douglas' best known claim to fame was as Wilde's lover, related to the highly publicized scandal (see brief biography below) that ended in Wilde's imprisonment for "committing indecent acts" (Ellman, 456). Letter contents: On the recto: A typed note from Mrs William Brown Maloney (Marie) dated November 22, 1933, saying that she will help Lord Alfred find an American publisher for his book. At bottom, under her signature, addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas, 35, Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England and written in Lord Alfred's hand, 'P.T.O.' (Please turn over) and added his initials 'A.D.' On the verso: Lord Alfred wrote the following note: (holograph): This lady Mrs William Brown Maloney undertook to get an edition of my True History of Shakespeare's Sonnets published in America. I am sure she has done her best as she was most kind. But so far no result. Do you know anything about her? I am told she has influence in the publishing world. Do not trouble to return this. A.D. Brief biography: In the mid-1890s, Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed "Bosie," third son of the ninth Marquess of Queensberry, was the storm-center of a lawsuit brought against the post-dramatist Oscar Wilde by Queensberry, to protest against Wilde's allegedly unnatural attentions to Lord Alfred. The two met post Oscar Wilde's 1891 publication, Portrait of Dorian Gray, that some booksellers "refused to carry it on the grounds that it was filthy." The handsome son of the Marquess of Queensberry was "passionately absorbed" by it and soon accompanied a friend " to meet Wilde in Tite Street. This was the first meeting of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas." Though Douglas was "totally spoiled, reckless, insolent. and fiercely vindictive, Wilde could see only his beauty [and] delighted in Douglas' praise of Dorian Gray. Wilde wanted a consuming passion" and by 1892, the two were inseparable (Ellman, 323-4, 384). The relationship between Wilde and Douglas triggered accusations from Douglas' father that ended in Wilde's ruinous imprisonment. As Wilde became drawn into a long-standing feud between Douglas and his father, Wilde charged the Marquess of Queensberry with libel. The 1895 trial led to a second one in which the financially ruined Wilde was found guilty and imprisoned. Note: Very few letters from Lord Alfred Douglas are in existence, because of his 'withdrawal' in later life from contact with outsiders.…