Wilde, Oscar

A House of Pomegranates. James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891, 4to, first edition, one of 1,000 copies, pictorial title-page and other illustrations in the text by Charles Ricketts, 4 full-page illustrations by Charles Shannon printed in brown, original pictorial cloth gilt  with green spine, pictorial endpapers designed by Charles Ricketts, [Mason 347], minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, slight edge-wear, slight discoloration to lower panel; Lady Windermere's Fan. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1893, one of 500 copies, [Mason 357]; A Woman of No Importance. John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1894, one of 500 copies, publisher's advertisements at the end, [Mason 364]; An Ideal Husband. Leonard Smithers and co., 1899, one of 1,000 copies; all in light brown-red linen boards, designs in gilt by Charles Shannon on covers and spine, [Mason 385], first editions, some slight foxing, minor wear and fading to cloth bindings; together with 54 books or pamphlets by or about Wilde including:The Picture of Dorian Gray, [extracted from] Lippincott's Magazine, No.271, July [20 June] 1890, rebound in green morocco cloth, offsetting; Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the young. Privately printed, 1894 [1902]; Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, 1899 [but between 1900 and 1907], unauthorised edition; another copy; another edition, woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Methuen, 1924 [1925]; Letters to the Sphinx..with reminiscences of the author by Ada Leverson. Duckworth, 1930; Essays, Criticisms and Reviews...now first collected. Privately printed, 1901, one of 300 copies, pirated edition, upper cover detached; The Soul of Man under Socialism. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907; The Importance of Being Earnest. The Folio Society, 1960, illustrated by Cecil Beaton, slipcase; Hellenism. Edinburgh: the Tragara Press, 1979, one of 95 copies on Amalfi paper; Salomé...pictured by Aubrey Beardsley. Melmoth & Co., 1904, pirated edition, one of 250 copies (this one out of series); Impressions of America...edited with an introduction by Stuart Mason. Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1905; another copy--D'Aurevilly, Barbey. What Never Dies. Paris: privately printed, 1902, translated by Wilde, one of 500 copies; together with four issues of Nineteenth Century with contributions by Wilde; and numerous others, chiefly about Wilde, including works by H. Montgomery Hyde, Robert Sherard, Lord Alfred Douglas, Stuart Mason, Frank Harris, Arthur Ransome and others, some inscribed; original bindings, chiefly 8vo (58)

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