The Oscar Wilde Collection of John B. Stetson, JrAnderson Galleries, 1920 - 72 pages |
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16 Tite Street 1891 FIRST EDITION AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY back and sides BALLAD OF READING blue levant morocco bound in full COPY FROM OSCAR Dear Sphinx DORIAN GRAY doublures and flys EARNEST Elkin Mathews facsimile flys of pale folio Frank Harris front cover full green levant full olive levant gilt edges gilt fillet back gilt top green levant morocco green moire silk half blue levant half green levant half maroon levant half olive levant IDEAL HUSBAND J. M. Stoddart LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN Leonard Smithers letters levant mo levant morocco slip-case levant morocco solander Leverson London Lord Alfred Douglas MARCEL SCHWOB maroon levant morocco Max Meyerfeld olive levant morocco original cloth ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT original wrappers bound Oscar Wilde pale green moire PICTURE OF DORIAN poem portrait printed version Privately printed PROFUNDIS RICHARD LE GALLIENNE SALOME Signed Oscar Small 4to uncut vellum Walter Crane WILDE OSCAR WILDE TO LORD written York
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Page 9 - WILDE (OSCAR). The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood.
Page 72 - Oscar ! We of Tite Street and Beaufort Gardens joy in your triumphs, and delight in your success, but — we think that, with the exception of your epigrams, you talk like Sidney Colvin in the Provinces, and that, with the exception of your kneebreeches, you dress like 'Arry Quilter.
Page 55 - How I envy you under Giotto's Tower, or sitting in the loggia looking at that green and gold god of Cellini's. You must write poems like apple blossom. ThcYellow Book has appeared. It is dull and loathsome, a great failure. I am so glad.* Always, with much love, yours OSCAR 1 Bookseller and bibliophile (1819-99).
Page 56 - He left a grotesque bouquet of vegetables for me ! This of course makes his conduct idiotic, robs it of dignity. He arrived with a prize-fighter ! ! I had all Scotland Yard — twenty police —to guard the theatre. He prowled about for three hours, then left chattering like a monstrous ape.