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London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. First English Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Near fine only slightly handled copy with the gilt-stamping to the boards bright. From the library of Harpo Marx, the great clown of the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his wife actress Susan Fleming Marx, former member of the Ziegfeld Follies and star of early talking films like Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields. With a charming bookplate illustrated by Susan Marx with a drawing of Harpo in his comic character which reads: “FROM THE LIBRARY OF HARPO & SUSAN MARX”.

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane,, 1894. A sublime collaboration by the enfants terribles of Victorian Britain First edition in English, one of 500 trade copies, here in unusually nice condition. This edition was the first to feature Beardsley's striking illustrations. "If Le Morte Darthur [1893] made Beardsley known, his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salomé made him notorious, and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" (Ray). Salomé was originally published in French in the preceding year and was translated into English by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas. A further 100 large-paper copies of the present edition were also issued. Loosely inserted is a sheet from the Saturday Review issue of 24 March 1894, printing an article on the work which opens, "It would be a sad spirit that could find no cheer in this little blue quarto". This copy is from the significant theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), who spent decades as the Sunday… Read More

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland & Day, 1894.. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. LIMITED EDITION (500 [750]). Small 4to. (21.5 x 15.5 cm). pp.[xii]+67+[1]+14, ads.+[2]. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed morocco, covers with original gilt designs replicated front and back, spine gilt lettered between two raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorated title and contents leaf, 10 full page illustrations and one final vignette. Generally an excellent copy. Salom� was originally published in French in the preceding year and was translated into English by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas. This edition was the first to feature Beardsley's striking illustrations, however, some of his designs were withheld from publication and not issued until 1907. "If Le Morte Darthur 1893 made Beardsley known, his designs for the first edition in English of Wilde's Salom� made him notorious, and it remains the book of which most people think when his name is mentioned" (Ray) Although… Read More

Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London., 1894. First edition in English and with the Beardsley illustrations; 500 copies printed. Octavo. pp [xiv], 67. 16-page publishers' catalogue, dated January 1894, at rear. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and list of illustrations, 9 illustrations, tailpiece and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. The list of illustrations is a cancel as three of the plates were considered too risqué for publication, one them being replaced entirely and the two others receiving alterations. Loose-weave blue cloth with gilt devices on front and rear cover.Some damage to inner margin of cancelled list of illustrations page. Spine faded and rubbed so that the titles are illegible. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Good, internally near fine.

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane. G : in good condition. Rebacked. Cover rubbed. Page edges browning. Hinge at title cracked. 1894. Limited Edition [500]. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 67pp, 15pp + plates. 10 plates by Aubrey Beardsley. .

London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & Copeland & Day, 1894. First English Edition. Hardcover. Rebacked in full dark green calf, front and back covers decorated in gilt. Very good. Beardsley, Aubrey. 67 pages. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. 16 pages of adverts dated January 1984 published by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at rear. Beardsley mocked Wilde in his illustrations, depicting him as the 'Woman in the Moon' and as a jester in 'Enter Herodias'. First published in French the previous year without Beardsley's illustrations due to censorship problems: the production of the play had its license withheld by the Lord Chamberlain on the grounds of its having introduced biblical characters. LASNER 59. MASON 350. Ten full page black and white plates by Beardsley. Text clean, renewed endpapers, slight rubbing to covers.

London: Methuen [through 1912], 1909. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. A superb set of the First Foolscap Octavo Edition (Second Collected Edition) of Wilde's works, in 14 matching publisher's bindings, issued as separate volumes beginning in 1909 (twelve by Methuen, one by Charles Carrington of Paris, and one by John Lane). Publisher's bright green cloth, spines titled in gilt, upper covers with gilt lettering and Charles Rickett's star above the "Great Waters" vignette, top edges gilt, sides uncut, printed on thick wove paper. Contemporary ownership inscription of W. W. S. Escott of Magdalen College [Wilde's college], Oxford, to some volumes. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (3rd edn., Mason 481`): [6],196pp. Duchess of Padua (2nd edn., Mason 485): vi,[6],183,[1]pp. Poems (10th edn., Mason 491): viii,320pp. Lady Windermere's Fan (3rd edn., Mason 494): [12],157,[1]pp. Woman of No Importance (3rd edn., Mason 497): [12],182,[2]pp. Ideal Husband (5th edn., Mason 503): [12],246pp. Importance of Being Earnest… Read More

John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1907. First edition thus: with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia. Royal octavo. pp xx, [4], 66, [2] adverts. Decorated buckram gilt. Four page introduction, A Note on 'Salomé' , by Robert Ross. Cover design and sixteen plates, on Japanese vellum, by Aubrey Beardsley. Translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. Includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera. Top edge gilt.On the rear free endpaper is a much-faded gift inscription from a member of the San Francisco Haas family. The inscription includes the address 2007 Van Ness Avenue, which is now the Haas-Lilienthal House, one of only two house museums in the city.Endpapers faintly tanned. Rear cover partially darkened. Small bump to bottom edge of rear cover. Very good indeed.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. [12], xiii-xviii, [8], 65pp, [5]. Original gilt decorated cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, lower cover very slightly soiled. Some browning to endpapers, occasional light marking to margins, but generally fairly bright and clean. Bookplate of previous owner (M. A. Gouldsmith) to front pastedown. With sixteen designs by Beardsley on Japanese vellum. Housed in a cloth slipcase. Mason 355. First Thus. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Beardsley, Aubrey. 8vo.

Salome, John Lane / Bodley Head, 1907, first edition thus, small area of minor bubbling to the rear cloth cover, else just about fine with all the Beardsley plates present and in fine condition. A large paper copy with extended (uncut) margins.

London: John Lane, 1912. Handsomely bound in period 3/4 Red Levant and Marbled Boards, gilt titles at spine, top edge gilt, ribbon marker, with 16 black and white plates by Aubrey Beardsley. A Fine and quite lovely copy of this classic Oscar Wilde play. . First EditionThus. 3/4 Levant and Marbled Boards. Fine. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. Copy with all illustrations by Beardsley, including the suppressed frontispiece (hermaphrodite genitalia!). Green binding with elaborate gilt design imprinted on cover and gilt on spine. Some rubbing and wear at all extremities,especially spine and top right hand front cover edge, but still very lovely and solid. Inside front and back endpapers are very shadowed, but the rest of the pages are very crisp, clean and bright. Introduction by Robert Ross. Rather sumptuous, as is fitting. . Hard Cover. Good/None as Issued. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo.

London: Melmoth & Co. , 1904. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Copy #57 of only 250 copies. Printed on hand-made paper; illustrations by Beardsley. Original blue cloth. Spine darkened, but internally quite a nice clean copy. A scarce edition.

London: Limited Editions Club. Near Fine. 1938. Hardcover. One hardcover and one softcover volume in slipcase. #840 of 1500 copies. The French volume is stiff wraps with black printed paper wrapper in the original clear celluloid cover. The black outer wrapper is wrinkled. The celluloid is about fine, as are the contents. Slight offsetting to the endpages and pages opposite plates. Signed to the colophon by Derain. The hardcover volume in English includes the original celluloid cover in excellent condition and is fine but for the slightly sunned spine. Most pages are unopened. The slipcase is mildly sunned, rubbed and dust soiled. ; quarto; Signed by Author .

Paris: Printed at Dehon et Cie for the Limited Editions Club, 1938; London: Printed at the Fanfare Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1938. No. 827 of 1,500 copies (English) and no. 21 of 1,500 copies (French). 279 x 203 mm. (11 x 8"). 105, [1] pp., [1] leaf. Two separately published companion volumes. French volume designed by René Ben Sussan; English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas, with an introduction by Holbrook Jackson. French edition with printed black paper wrapper and original mylar jacket; English edition in publisher's terra cotta cloth, upper cover with gilt lettering and decoration designed by Beardsley, flat spine with gilt titling. French version with 10 gouache illustrations by Derain printed in pochoir by Saudé on black paper; English book with pictorial frames to title page and list of pictures, and 14 full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. French volume SIGNED BY DERAIN in the colophon. Quarto-Millenary 104. ◆Paper wrapper of French version slightly chipped at head… Read More

This is a handsome, beautifully illustrated copy of "SALOME" by Oscar Wilde. 1922 1st edition thus; Les Editions G. Cres; Paris. The book is written entirely in French. Nicely bound in three-quarter leather by "Asper Geneve" with gilt top page edges, decorative covers and end papers, a ribbon page marker, and five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. The book features wonderful illustrations in color by Alastair (the illustrations are very much in the style of Aubrey Beardsley). A wonderful copy of this classic work.Condition:There are a few tiny stain/foxing(?) spots to the leather at the inner edges of the covers. Light wear to the leather at the top of the spine, and to the cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. The pages are mostly clean with the exception of occasional light foxing (most prominent on page 9), and a few random light smudges. Bright gilt top page edges. Light soiling/age-toning to the title page. Overall the book is… Read More

London,: Melmoth & Co., 1904.. In-8 p. legataura in tela editoriale azzurra (piatto anter. con abrasione, e tracce dorate al poster.), titolo impresso in oro al dorso con la data 1905, pp. 75 + 1 c.b., con le magnifiche 16 illustrazioni di Aubrey Beardsley (elencate su 1 tav. figurata), i.e. con l'intero apparato iconografico realizzato dall'artista inglese, che era stato in parte censurato nella prima versione del 1894. La prima edizione autorizzata ad includere i disegni censurati fu stampata nel 1907. La ns. del 1904 è una rara “edizione pirata”, pubblicata in soli 250 esemplari numerati su carta a mano (inclusa una tiratura di 50 su “special deluxe Japanese vellum”). Al ns. esempl. manca l'occhietto che riportava al verso la tiratura ed il numero della copia.Questo celeberrimo dramma fu scritto da Wilde in francese e pubblicato a Parigi nel 1893 (la traduzione in inglese fu effettuata da Lord Douglas).Cfr. Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (1914), n. 355 per la prima ediz. del 1907 -… Read More

Paris & London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Both copies fine in worn publisher slipcase. 71 & 106 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Five full-page pochoir plates illustrated by Derain on black paper (gouache drawings). Type designed by A.M. Cassandre, a new face, called Peignot and set by hand. Limited edition, copies 691 of 1500 signed by Derain. The second volume by Beardsley, with illustrations reproduced under the direction of Ernest Ingham at The Fanfare Press. With a New Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Limited edition, copy 691 of 1500. The Derain volume is in illustrated black wrappers with tissue guards. The Beardsley is bound in maroon cloth with gilt front cover illustration. Laid-in the Salome volume the Circle In the Square Theatre playbill, listing the cast -- Al Pacino as Herod, and Frances McDormand, wife of later. Molly Ringwald plays Salome.

Boston: John W. Luce, 1906. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus.. 8vo, pp. 36. Gray paper over boards, lettered and stamped in green with an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. Scarce. Samuels-Lasner 59G. [not in Mason, who does list the 1906 printing by the John Lane Company, and preceded in America only by the 1894 Copeland & Day limited edition].

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co., 1930. Large paper.. hard cover. Very Good. Quarto (26cm); xviii, 65 pages, [16] leaves of plates. Bound in original red cloth stamped in blind with Aubrey Beardsley poppy design . Original dust jacket, with the same design in red on a tan ground. Dust jacket mildly frayed at spine ends, corners and top edge, with a closed tear on the upper panel repaired with cello tape and a closed tear on the lower panel without intervention, yet unusually sound and entire. Cloth about fine. Scattered light foxing in text. The last of the John Lane "Bodley Head" editions of the classic collaboration between Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Lane was the first English publisher of the work in 1894, but it was dropped after the 1930 edition as Allen Lane (John's nephew) transformed the houseinto the more mainstream Penguin Books. This is the large paper quarto version (the book also appeared in a smaller octavo format). Despite the detailed… Read More