The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar. Davis, Robert Gorham. Hill, James - 1968

The Heritage Press, 1968. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. The Heritage Press, New York, copyright, 1968. 313 pages. Color illustrated. 10.25 x 7.75", cloth, slipcase. Sandglass Number XII: 33 inserted. Bookplate University of Massachusetts Professor Arthur F. Kinney.. Slipcase scuffed, book clean, tight, very good/very good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: The Heritage Press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hill, James. Sandglass (X I I : 33) Laid In. The Book Is Bound In A Magenta Cloth Over Boards With Gold Lettering Within A Black Field On The Spine. All Edges Are Speckled. The Spine Cloth Has Darkened. The Gold Paper Slip Case Has Light Wear.

Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1968. Hardcover. xiii, 313p., introduction, color plates, very good in red cloth boards, gilt and slightly-worn mustard slipcase, Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Includes "The Happy Prince," "The Selfish Giant," "The Canterville Ghost" et al.

Norwich, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. First Easton Edition. Full Calf. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed ox-blood cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 314, a.e.g. Illustrated with colour plates after paintings by James Hill. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines. In 1891 he published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde". "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun in 1887, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. It is a short story, which reports a conversation, in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were written out of the poet's love of the boy actor "Willie Hughes".. The only evidence for this is two supposed puns within the… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1976. Limited Collector's Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Hill, James. Red full-leather binding with gilt illustration and lettering; there are five compartments and four raised bands on the spine; fully gilted textblock edges; cloth bookmark; xiii, 313 pp.; richly illustrated. One in the series, "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written," published by Easton Press. Gorgeous Book!

Norwalk, Connecticut, U. S. A.: Easton Press, 1976. Full-Leather. Near Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hill, James. Collector's Edition (Part Of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series). The Book Is Bound In Red Leather Over Boards With Gilt Lettering And Decoration. Four Raised Bands. All Edges Gilt. Peach Marker Ribbon Bound In. A Few Light Scratches To The Gilt Edging, Else Fine.

Norwalk.: The Easton Press., 1976.. First edition thus. . Gilt decorated hard cover. All edges gilt. Dark red leather. Satin end papers.. Fine copy. As new. . Folio. . Illustrated in black, white and color by James Hill. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Burlington, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. 313 pages. Number 1338 from an edition of 1500 copies planned by Robert L. Dothard and printed at the Lane Press in Burlington, Vermont. Features an introduction by Robert Gorham Davis. Includes illustrations by James Hill. A fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine slipcase. No dust jacket. Signed by Robert Gorham Davis on the colophon page.