THE OSCHOLARS

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SOME SELL AND OTHERS BUY

A monthly report on Wilde and period-related subjects for sale.

No 44: May 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Dorian Gray Memorabilia
II. Auctions		V. Bookshops & Publishers
III. Books		VI. Ebay
IV. Posters		VII. Endpiece

I. Dorian Gray Memorabilia

These have been created in association with the forthcoming production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in Lausanne, directed by Bernard Novet.

Les visuels représentés sur ce bulletin sont provisoires et donc non-contractuels.

LE PORTRAIT

DE DORIAN GRAY

CD - DVD - Programme - Produits associés

(pour tous ces produits, des tarifs de quantité dégressifs sont applicables dès 20 pièces.)

THÉÂTRE ET MUSIQUE POUR UN SPECTACLE ENVOÛTANT

Dans le cadre magnifique du théâtre-cabaret “Barnabé” à Servion (VD),

Le portrait de Dorian Gray présente une toute nouvelle adaptation

dramatique du roman d’Oscar Wilde. Un spectacle total mêlant

comédiens professionnels et amateurs, théâtre, musique et choeur,

autour de l’un des plus extraordinaires récits de la littérature fantastique

et de la littérature tout court...

2. PROGRAMME

____ exemplaire(s) du programme du spectacle à CHF 6.-

(disponible à l’entrée du spectacle)

Programme : photos, textes de présentation

du spectacle et des artistes, collaborations

extérieures sur les fondements de l’oeuvre,

ainsi que toutes les dernières nouvelles du

spectacle !

3. AFFICHES ORIGINALES

____ Affiches originales format “mondial” (F4) à CHF 25.- pièce.

(à retirer sur place)

1. CD/Souvenir

____ exemplaire(s) du CD/Souvenir à CHF 35.-, frais de port

compris (livraison lors du spectacle ou à l'automne 2008 en cas d'un

enregistrement "live").

CD : musiques du spectacle et sources originales. (cf. www.cddm.ch)

Livret :textes et photos autour du spectacle et des

musiques du Portrait de Dorian Gray. Nom : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prénom : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Société : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)

Adresse : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tél : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . URL : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Email : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Signature : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4. CUVEES SPECIALES DORIAN GRAY - VIN ROUGE ET BIERE BLANCHE

____ Bouteilles de vin Cuvée Dorian Gray, à CHF 20.- la bouteille

(7.5dl).

____ Bouteilles de vin Cuvée Dorian Gray, à CHF 15.- la “désirée”

(5dl).

____ Carton(s) de 6 bouteilles (7.5dl) à CHF 115.-

____ Carton(s) de 6 “désirées” (5dl) à CHF 85.-

____ Présentoir(s) de 3 bouteilles (7.5dl) à CHF 60.-

(La cuvée Dorian Gray est livrable de suite.)

Frais de port : CHF 5.- par envoi pour les vins. Produits disponibles en tout temps à

Cheseaux, sans frais. (info@cddm.ch)

5. DVD SOUVENIR

____ DVD “souvenir”. Images de la création du spectacle,

interviews de personnalités, comédiens, musiciens, bonus

thématiques, à CHF 35.- la pièce

(Co-prod. Aragos Film Studio - www.aragos.ch, frais de port compris).

Par votre signature, vous passez commande des divers produits indiqués sur le présent document. En cas

d'annulation ou de modification de la commande, merci de contacter la Compagnie à son adresse

électronique info@cddm.ch (www.cddm.ch) .

Merci de retourner ce formulaire à l’adresse suivante :

Compagnie Des Deux Masques, Sus Montagny, 1033 Cheseaux.

En cas d’annulation du spectacle, aucun versement ne sera demandé, et les éventuelles sommes déjà versées seront

intégralement remboursées.

La Compagnie Des Deux Masques décline toute autre responsabilité.

P R O D U I T S

la compagnie Des Deux masques

bulletin de souscription

II. AUCTIONS

We are discontinuing our coverage here of fin-de-siècle art in the auction houses, and will be re-opening it in VISIONS.

Booksellers are welcome to contact us as oscholars@gmail.com with lists of their 1890s material; or with links to the relevant section of their own on-line catalogues.

III. POSTERS

Footlights Gallery & Gifts specialises in theatre posters, 240 East Main Street, Ashland, OR 97520, USA, Phone & Fax: 541-488-5538 (Voice: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Pacific Time, 18:00-2:00 UTC) (Fax: 24 hours) E-mail: footlite@cdsnet.net. No Wilde posters are currently offered but we note the following (17th May 2008):

· BELLE EPOQUE 2004 Lincoln Center Theater production, Art by James McMullan 14x22" Cardstock $25;

· DANCE OF DEATH Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren star in Strindberg's classic 14x22" Cardstock $25;

· DRACULA 2004 Broadway production. Music by Frank Wildhorn 14x22" Cardstock $18;

· ELEPHANT MAN Revival with Billy Crudup, Kate Burton14x22"Cardstock $25 ONE ONLY;

· JEKYLL & HYDE 1997 Broadway Production 14x22" Cardstock $20;

· TURN OF THE SCREW Acting Company production. Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation. Art by Scott McKowen 13x19" Poster Stock $25.

· VINCENT AT BRIXTON 2003 Lincoln Center Production Play by Nicholas Wright about van Gogh in London. Directed by Richard Eyre; 14x22" Cardstock $20.

The company AllPosters has a selection of Wilde-related (and other) posters, prints and photographs that it sells on-line.

These matching prints, 46 x 61 cm, are offered each at 37.90 €. The artist and origin are not explained.

The captions are ‘Our Oscar as he appears on being returned to us’ (left) and ‘Frightful forshadowing [sic] of our Oscar’s future should he continue to cut his hair and resume his knee-breeches’.

AllPosters also offer a number of Sarah Bernhardt posters and prints, of which we will be publishing one in each issue of THE OSCHOLARS. This month, Bernhardt by Georges Clairin.

The AllPosters site can be reached by clicking on the picture below, which is one of those that is also currently for sale.

Tite Street

We also draw readers’ attention to the International Poster Gallery, which specialises in Vintage posters, though the use of this term is rather imprecise. We here select four, three fin-de-siècle posters respectively by Ibels, Cheret and Steinlen, and a poster c.1930 for Patience.

IV. BOOKSHOPS & PUBLISHERS

One of the very few London bookshops that was known to Wilde and survives to this day was Hatchard’s, and its general manager at the time, Arthur Humphreys, was a close friend of Constance Wilde’s. Wilde is one of the six customers named on their website. Hatchard’s is at 187 Piccadilly, and its website can be reached by clicking its picture to the left. Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30 - 7.00 p.m., Sunday 12.00 - 6.00 p.m. Telephone 020 7439 9921

Galignani’s, 224 rue de Rivoli, is a few steps from the Hôtel Wagram (now no longer an hotel), where the Wildes stayed on their honeymoon. The oldest English bookshop on the Continent, one imagines that it has changed little to-day. The photograph is of Charles Jeancourt Galignani, the proprietor in Wilde’s day. Click the photograph for Galignani’s splendid website.

Wilde also used the American bookshop in Paris, Brentano’s. This branch of the U.S. firm was opened by Arthur Brentano in 1895, at 37 Avenue de 1'Opera and extending through to Rue des Petits Champs (now rue Danielle Casanova), where it remains to-day; although its unprepossessing interior and inferior stock hardly suggests its distinguished past. It is no longer part of the Brentano’s chain.

We also like to commend the following bookshops because they salute Oscar Wilde. We are interested to know of others.

Oscar Wilde Buchhandlung und Versand at Alte Gasse 51, 60313 Frankfurt Tel.: 069/28 12 60 Fax: 069/297 75 42. Internet: http://www.oscar-wilde.de; e-mail: shop@oscar-wilde.de.

Dorian Bookstore, 802 Elm at Madison, Youngstown, Ohio 44505-2843. This, however, is no longer present at its Internet: http://alt.youngstown.org/dorian.html (although our search engine still locates it there) and perhaps a reader has news?

The Oscar Wilde Book Shop (15 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014 E-mail: wildebooks@aol.com) now has a website at www.oscarwildebooks.com. This shop (in Greenwich Village) was founded in 1967, was the world's first gay bookshop. After many crises it is now owned and managed by Kim Brinster. It is possible to buy a wide range of products as well as books, on-line. The ‘T-shirt’ below has the words Oscar Wilde, New York City printed on it. Would Wilde have worn it? We think not.

Also specialising in the fin-de-siècle is Le Lien et le Ligne, the bookshop of M. Bruno Leclercq, which can be found by clicking its banner. This is more than an on-line bookseller, more of a site dedicated to its subject by an enthusiast.

We also recommend another French site, Edition Originale, which is that of the bookshop Le Feu Follet, 6, rue de l'Epée de Bois - 75005 Paris. Click its strangely attenuated colophon and then use the search facility for Wilde items, nine at time of writing (17th May 2008).

Offstage Bookshop opened in 1982 as London's only specialist theatre and film bookshop. They stock an extensive range of technical and theoretical books in the performing arts and film. Their primary strength is the wide selection of titles stocked, and ability to find any book you need quickly and with no fuss. They now describe themselves as ‘firmly embedded’ in Treadwell’s Bookshop, in Covent Garden. (34 Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PB). Treadwell’s itself is known for stocking books and arranging talks concerned with the writers of the decadence, with a leaning towards the occult.

Offstage has a website, www.offstagebooks.com which offers customers a worldwide mail order service. Offstage also provides offsite bookstalls at festivals and conferences for teachers and practitioners

We draw your attention to The Peacock Mirror which offers on-line a selection of books, prints and other products focusing on Pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and fin-de-siècle art. For a while off the screen, it has now returned in revived spirits (or so we wrote in January 2008; in May we found it closed once more). Click the image right for their website.

We here add the names of independent publishers who specialise in the books of the period. We plan gradually to increase this list and hope readers across the world will assist.

The Rivendale Press, our own publisher, gets special mention. Its list can be found at http://www.rivendalepress.com/index.html.

Elsewhere in THE OSCHOLARS we have mentioned the books being published by Callum James, Valancourt and Mondial. Their lists can be consulted at http://members.aol.com/callumjames1000/callumjamesbooks/home.html, http://www.valancourtbooks.com and http://www.mondial.com.

Tragara Press has a website currently (13th November 2007; 1st January, 17th May 2008) under construction; we recommend the bibliography compiled by Steven Halliwell. See http://www.rivendalepress.com/tp.html

Woodstock Books publishes literary reprints for the academic library market and for general readers and students. Notable is their list of Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents: Poetry of the 1890s, a series chosen and introduced by R.K.R.Thornton and Ian Small.

V. EBAY

Ebay is an on-line auction house where many Wilde items are offered, from second-hand paperbacks to playbills to limited editions: 423 items when we looked for this issue, 392for the previous one.  We have set up this link –––-> which will take you straight to ebay's Wilde pages.

This month we select for illustration the following, which were recently on offer:

‘ERNEST IN LOVE’ Based on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest" • THE GRAMERCY ARTS THEATRE • 1960 • RARE • ORIGINAL OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY • ORIGINAL CAST • ORIGINAL • 14" BY 22".THis is the original off-Broadway poster of the musical "Ernest In Love". It was directed by Harold Stone and starred John Irving, Louis Edmonds, Margot Harley, Leila Martin, Sara Seegar,, Gerrianne Raphael, Lucy Landau, Christina Gillespie and George Hall. It opened on May 4th, 1960. Ticket sales were so brisk, the play moved to the Cherry Lane Theatre in June, 1960, making this poster highly sought after. It ran for a total of 111 performances. The cast album was released by the  Columbia Masterworks Series.

1960 circa

Fine Leather Binding by
ASPREY & CO  of Bond Street London

The  Works
of

OSCAR WILDE

With 15 Original Drawings
by
DONIA NACHSHEN

in Half Morocco Leather-
Raised gilt bands to spine - gilt title to spine-
Gilt all edges - Marbled End papers

FRAZIER, Kenneth. 1891 Charcoal of Oscar Wilde on brown paper. Depicting top-hatted Wilde holding a cane. Estate stamped LR. Frazier reputedly met Wilde from which this charcoal sketch emerged. Several unrelated character studies verso. Multiple museum and gallery exhibition labels on frame. A similar piece, almost certainly this piece, by Frazier was noted in the Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., "Kenneth Frazier, 1867-1949 [exhibition, Oct. 1976]," Houston: The Galleries, 1976. Kenneth Frazier, American, (1867-1949). Dimensions: 13 1/2" x 8 1/2" Condition: Good, needs re framing

Georges Crès & Cie Paris 1917 In-8 (205X 150 mm) de 149 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée rempliée. Notes sur l'auteur par Ernest LA JEUNESSE. Frontispice et illustrations dessinées et gravés sur bois par Louis JOU. Petit manque au dos sinon bel exemplaire. Tirage limité à 1078 exemplaires, celui-ci un des 1050 sur papier vélin des Manufacures de Rives, numéroté 874. Les bois ont été gravés de la main de Louis JOU

Descriptions are those of the sellers, and without any reason for disbelief, nonetheless THE OSCHOLARS cannot vouch for their accuracy (while sometimes appreciating their quaintness).

VI. FINALLY...

‘Blue Plaque’ mug, available from English Heritage at £9.99

The Importance of Being Earnest, 1894.

‘The Great Works brand has been created exclusively for the British Library’

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