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The Sphinx by WILDE, Oscar - 1894

by WILDE, Oscar

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The Sphinx by WILDE, Oscar - 1894

The Sphinx

by WILDE, Oscar

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London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894, 1894. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 7", illustrated by Charles Rickets, limited to 200 copies, printed in 3 colors, bound in original art nouveau gilt decorated vellum, covers straight (often found quite bowed), inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, foxing to one side of the first 8 leaves (typical), previous owners bookplate to front pastedown, housed in a 1/2 red morocco clamshell slipcase, raised bands gilt decorated spine, overall still a VERY GOOD copy. Charles Ricketts's art nouveau illustrations, were described by W. E. Henley, Wilde's harshest critic, as "about as fin-de-Siecle a business as you ever saw" (Frankel, p. 155). Ricketts considered the designs for the illustrations and for the original vellum binding amongst his best work. While predominantly working with book illustration and design, Ricketts was also famed for his theater designs and costumes, and he contributed to the first English production of Wilde's Salome in 1906.
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  • Publisher London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894
  • Date Published 1894

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THE SPHINX

by Wilde, Oscar

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London & New York: John Lane Company, 1910. [46]pp [bookplate; spine backing completely chipped away exposing gauze; some discolorations to boards]. Illustrated Boards. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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THE SPHINX

by WILDE, Oscar

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Used - Small 8vo, 46pp plus two pages of advertisments. A good hardback copy bound in pale green papered boards with illustrated front
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John Lane, Bodley Head, London. 1918. Small 8vo, 46pp plus two pages of advertisments. A good hardback copy bound in pale green papered boards with illustrated front cover. Boards lightly bowed with wear to extremities and slight discolouration and creasing to spine. Tick mark in black pen to top corner of cover. Foxing to fore edges and end papers. Lower part of rear endpaper split.
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THE SPHINX

THE SPHINX

by WILDE, Oscar

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London: John Lane, 1918. Beardsley. 12mo, pp. 46. Paper over boards, spine mended with paper tape. Some foxing throughout, cover little soiled. Good. Cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. A poem.
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The Sphinx (In Original box)
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The Sphinx (In Original box)

by Wilde, Oscar

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Used - Very Good
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New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1894. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo (4 1/2" x 7 3/8"), stiff pictorial wraps, 22 pages; half title with date of 1894; original glassine dust jacket and original box, with printed label: "The Sphinx. Wilde Nippon Booklets." Early edition, printed in America. Pictorial front wrapper, with color rural scene, with Mt. Fiji in the background. A lovely edition. Book and dust jacket are very good; box has a few light stains, but is very good. Not in Mason.
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The Sphinx: Illustrated and Decorated by Alastair

by Oscar Wilde

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First edition limited to 1000 copies that cannot be reprinted.9 beautiful tissue protected plates by Alastair. A very good copy in decorated boards with some slight soiling to cover. Attached to the inside cover is an original water color signed D.H. Pinder
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The Sphinx

by Wilde, Oscar

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Used - Very Good Condition
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John Lane, London, 1920. Edition Unstated . Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Alastair. Size: 12 1/4" x 9 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped and illustrated ivory cloth over boards, page edges deckled, illustrated with 10 plates plus two additional folding plates that act as free end papers. Limited to 1,000 copies, decorated and illustrated by Alastair. Covers rubbed and lightly stained, some toning on end papers. Illustrator: Alastair. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 lbs 0 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015882. . This book is heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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The Sphinx

by WILDE Oscar 1854-1900

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Limited Edition
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London: The Bodley Head New York: John Lane Company: John Lane, 1920. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALASTAIR [i.e. VOIGT Hans H.] 1887-1969. Superb illustrations! First limited edition, in gilt printed cream buckram, gilt title to spine, light edge finger marking. Internally, half title, frontis, [1], 36 pp, 12 pls (each with a printed guard), 13 large initial letters, all coloured in black & teal, t.e.g., remainder uncut, cover designed design by Charles Ricketts, pencil name to fpd (B Wood 1921), some light offsetting to fep. (299*226 mm). Wilde first published the Spinx in 1894, and this edition is limited to 1,000 copies & cannot be reprinted, as the stones from which the offset plates were printed were in Belgium at the time of the German invasion, and were destroyed.
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THE SPHINX

by WILDE Oscar

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London: Privately printed, 1901. Limited numbered pirated edn (30 of 300). Tall 8vo (10 x 8 ins). Bound in half maroon crushed levant morocco by C. Walters, top edge gilt (outer joints rubbed - otherwise bright VG). Pp. 32 printed on Japan vellum, with original wrapper bound-in at rear, versos alternately illustrated with a head of a sphinx or Christ on the cross (Richard Le Gallienne bookplate on front paste-down and catalogue entry from John C. Tomlinson sale of January 17-18 1918 tipped-in on front free endpaper; bookplate of Morton Burr Stelle on rear paste-down).
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THE SPHINX

by Wilde, Oscar

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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1920. Illustrated and decorated by Alastair. Pp. 36, frontispiece and 10 plates with lettered tissue guards, plus 2 extra folding plates functioning as free endpapers, 13 large decorative initials, all printed in teal & black, as is the title page; med. 4to; white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in gilt & teal, lightly soiled, the edges slightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; contemporary gift inscription in ink on upper free endpaper, a couple of short edge splits, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1920. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. *With the publisher's blind 'Review Copy' stamp at head of title page. The Sphinx was originally published in 1894, although in the introductory note to this volume, Robert Ross states that it was written 'before Oscar Wilde's first volume was issued in 1881'. Alastair was the pseudonym of Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969). According to the… Read More
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Sphinx: With decorations by Charles Ricketts.

by WILDE, Oscar

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London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. RICKETTS, Charles. . The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. Full Description: WILDE, Oscar. The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. First edition. One of 200 copies for Great Britain, printed on handmade paper. Small quarto (8 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 218 x 172 mm). [4, blank], [6], [27], [1, blank], [1, imprint], [5, blank] pp. Title-page printed in black, red, and green. Ten illustrations by Ricketts in the text (including title-page), of which eight are full-page, all printed in red. Initial letters (one large and twelve medium) and guide words printed in green. Original vellum, decoratively paneled and pictorially stamped in gilt after designs by Ricketts, whose monogram appears in the lower left-hand corners. Gilt is bright and vellum generally clean.… Read More
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