Wilde, Oscar

Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881, first American edition of the author's first regularly published book, original brown cloth, [Mason 310], cloth slightly worn; The Happy Prince. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888, first American edition, illustrated  by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, original blue cloth, [Mason 321], A FINE COPY; The Poetical Works. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908, limited to 750 copies, original blue-grey boards, dust-jacket, FINE COPY; The Young King and other Tales. Mosher, 1922, limited to 350 copies, original boards; Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. Mosher, 1906, limited to 75 copies on Japan vellum, original stiff covers; Intentions. Mosher, 1904, one of 50 copies on Japan vellum signed by the publisher, original stiff covers; The Poems... Mosher, 1905, limited to 600 copies on Van Gelder paper, original white boards, lacking fly-leaf; De Profundis. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905, original boards; The Happy Prince. St. Louis, Missouri: Autolycus Press, 1974, one of 286 copies, original covers; with dummy issue of same and an original pen and ink watercolour by Fridolf Johnson used in the edition, all three housed together; with three editions of Salomé published by J.W. Luce in Boston in 1906, 1907 and 1912, illustrations by Beardsley, and an "authorized edition" of The Soul of Man under Socialism also published by Luce in 1910; and a rare pirated edition of Salomé published by the Paper Covered Book Store in San Francisco in 1896, with Beardsley illustrations; most preserved in slipcases and/or folding boxes (15 in 12 vols. or boxes)

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