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Click to view full description | 1. | Douglas, Alfred, Lord. (Oscar Wilde.) OSCAR WILDE AND MYSELF.
John Long, London, 1914, first edition.
320 pp, 8vo (8 7/8" H), hard cover (dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. B&w plates, tissue-covered portrait frontispiece. Lord Alfred Douglas' story of his friendship with Oscar Wilde and the ensuing scandals and court cases. Contents: Oxford; Lost Illusions; Wilde in Society; The Lord of Language; Our Mutual Friends; Lord Queensberry Intervenes; The Wilde Trials; Hard Labour and After; Naples and Paris; The "Ballad of Reading Gaol"; The Truth about "De Profundis"; My Letters to Wilde; My Letters to Labouchere; The Article in the "Revue Blanche"; Fifteen Years of Persecution; Wilde's Poetry; The Plays and Prose Works; For Posterity; The British Musuem and "De Profundis"; (Arthur) Ransome's "Critical Study"; My Actions for Libel; "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Literature and Vice; Crosland and "The First Stone"; A Challenge to Mr. Ross; Wilde in Russia, France and Germany; The Smaller Fry; To Be Done With. Light browning to pages, moderate browning to endpapers and frontispiece tissue, inside hinges a little weak but holding well, previous owners name/date on free front endpaper, browning to textblock edges, rubbing to gilt top edge, light edge wear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Good+
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| 2. | Hyde, H. Montgomery, ed. with introduction by. (Oscar Wilde.) Foreward by Rt. Hon. Sir Travers Hurmphreys, P.C. THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE.
University Books, New York, (1956), Ist U.S. edition.
384 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations, including reproductions of pictures by 'Spy'. ''In the first trial, Oscar Wilde brought an action for criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had objected to his son's assoc iation with Wilde. The pugnacious peer so defended himself that evidence was brought forth resulting in the arrest of Wilde under a Criminal Law Amendment Act newly passed amid increasing concern at the spread of homosexuality in the educated class es. In the second trial, Wilde was jointly charged with a notorious character, Alfred Taylor. Literary genius had appeared in the dock on more than one occasion but seldom on a charge of sodomy. In the witness box, Wilde fully lived up to his rep utation as a wit and some of his best dialogue is to be found in these proceedings. The jury failed to agree. In the third trial, Wilde was retried separately, the jury did agree and Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Sir Travers Hum prheys, Wilde's junior counsel in all three trials, has contributed his interesting personal recollections in a foreword. H. Montogmery Hyde, the editor, has written a most comprehensive introduction and has included six instructive appendices of i nformation of special interest to lawyers, doctors and psychoanalysts.'' Faint foxing marks on rear board and edges of spine. Dust jacket has minor edgewear, scatterd light foxing marks, small closed puncture on spine, a few tiny edge tears/chip, l ight browning to spine and flap-folds, is slightly shorter in height than book. VG-/G+
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| 3. | Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. EPIGRAMS.
Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, n.d.
62 pp, 12mo (7 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Purple illustrations and page decorations. A collection of Wilde's sayings and quotations from some of his works. Small bookstore label on free front endpaper, tiny light foxing mark at top fore-edge of title page and adjacent pages, two tiny foxing marks on fore-edge of textblock, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket has very light wear at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, browning to spine, minor soiling. Very Good/Very Good
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| 4. | Smith, T.R., ed. (Aphra Behn, Robert Burns, Tom Durfey, George Etheredge, Harold Greenthal, Robert Herrick, Dante Rossetti, Ovid, Francis Saltus, Arthur Symons, Francois Villon, Oscar Wilde, George Sterling, Charles Sedley, Louis Untermeyer, et al.) MORE EROTIC POEMS.
Poplar, n.p., (1978).
389 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H), soft cover. "A special collection of amorous, seductive and amusing verse." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small soft crease at bottom edge of front cover. VG+
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| 5. | Wilde, Oscar. With commentary and notes by Patricia Hern. LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. METHUEN STUDENT EDITIONS.
Methuen, London, 1985.
85 pp + b&w photograph section at rear, 7 1/4" H, soft cover. ISBN 0413577902 One of the Methuen Student Editions. "Expertly annotated editions....from the modern and classic repertoire. As well as the complete text of the play itself, each volume contains: A chronology of the playwright's life and work; An introduction giving the background to the play; A discussion of the various interpretations; Notes on individual words and phrases in the text; Photos from stage and film productions." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two small line rub marks on front cover, very small surface paper pull at top of spine effecting author's name. Very Good-
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