THE OSCHOLARS
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Vol. IV
No. 3
issue no 34:
March 2007
SOME SELL AND OTHERS BUY
A monthly report on Wilde and related subjects for sale.
Readers are invited to advertise (free) for items sought or for sale
/ exchange.
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if ordering or inquiring, as this will help keep us on mailing lists.
It
will take a while to re-establish contact with booksellers, but we hope this
page will be an early port of call for those seeking (or wanting) books on Wilde
and the fin-de-siècle. It will, we hope,
also serve to chart fluctuating prices.
Obviously it can never replace such facilities as Abe or Amazon, but we
hope that it will offer background to our other pages.
I.
AuctionS
Sotheby’s in London are selling Annette Campbell-White’s collection of books and drawings on 7th June. There are many items of fin de siècle interest : Baudelaire, Beerbohm, Flaubert etc. The Wilde items are listed below with estimated prices (GBP = pounds sterling). To browse the catalogue, click here.
L0741224 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. [London: Leonard Smithers, c.1904] 100 – 150 GBP
L0741222 Salomé. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant / Londres: Elkin Mathews et John Lane, 1893 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
L0741223. The Ballad
of Reading Gaol. London:
Leonard Smithers, 1898
4,000 – 6,000 GBP. [This is
clearly signed but we cannot make out the incription.]
There will be an
auction of VICTORIAN & TRADITIONALIST ART (Sale 5111) at Christie’s in
London, 28th March 2007. When
we are back on schedule we plan to increase our coverage of the auction rooms.
The catalogue is
on-line at http://www.christies.com/index.asp?action=sale&id=21198.
II. Books
A list of books
offered by Delectus Books was published in our December 2006 edition: further
selections were given in January 2007.
Some of these may still be available.
Books offered by Delectus (and others) relating to the fin-de-siècle in
France will be found in our sister publication Rue
des beaux arts.
Delectus can be
found at www.delectusbooks.com.
Courtwood
Books has issued Catalogue 28. The Wilde
items offered are
388. Vera, or the Nihilists. Methuen, London 1927. 2nd English edition, small crown 8vo. Gilt cloth decorated in blind on the front
panel. Spine a little faded & trace
of wear on cover extrems, else a very good copy.
€65.00
389. The Soul of Man. Humphreys, London 1909. 2nd impression, small crown 8vo. Silk marker.
Gilt decorated cloth. Top edge
gilt. A little wear at spine ends &
at fore-corners. Fading at spine, else a
very nice bright copy. Scarce.
€85.00
390. Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde:
The Aftermath. Methuen, London
1963. 1st edition. Gilt cloth.
A very good clean copy in lightly chipped dj.
€40.00
391. Mikolyzk, Thomas A. Oscar Wilde – An
Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press,
Connecticut 1993. 1st edition. Gilt cloth.
Slight bump on bottom fore-corner of cover, else a very good copy
without dj as issued.
€95.00
Courtwood Books, Vicarstown,
Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland. lbloom@eircom.net.
III. Posters
FOOTLIGHTS Gallery
& Gifts, 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
specialises in theatre posters. No Wilde
posters are currently offered but we note the following:
v
BELLE EPOQUE 2004 Lincoln Center Theater production, Art by James McMullan
14x22" Cardstock $25;
v
DANCE OF DEATH Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren star in Strindberg's classic
14x22" Cardstock $25;
v
DRACULA
2004 Broadway production. Music by Frank
Wildhorn 14x22" Cardstock $18;
v
HEDDA GABLER Limited Printing Roundabout Theatre Company Production With Kelly
McGillis, Art by Scott McKowen 14x22" Paper $25;
v
JEKYLL & HYDE 1997 Broadway Production 14x22" Cardstock $20;
v
TURN OF THE SCREW Acting Company production. Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation. Art by Scott McKowen 13x19" Poster Stock $25.
The company
AllPosters has a selection of Wilde-related (and of course other)
posters, prints and photographs that it sells on-line. At the moment of last consultation, only one
item was offered, the photograph below.
This is ‘Digitally Printed on Archival Photographic Paper resulting in
vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
display.’ It comes in various sizes and
prices: 46 x 61 cm 44, 26 €; 61 x 81 cm 53,12 €; 76 x 102 cm; 73,78 €;
30 x 41 cm 29,50 €.
The site can be
reached by clicking on the picture below, which is one of those that has been
for sale in the past.
We also draw
readers’ attention to the International Poster Gallery, which specialises in
Vintage posters, though the use of this term is rather imprecise.
IV. Bookshops
We have a prejudice in favour of
independent bookshops.
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 below.
Opening Hours: Monday
to Saturday 9.30 - 7.00 p.m., Sunday 12.00 - 6.00 p.m. Telephone 020 7439
9921
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 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.
Also specialising in
the fin-de-siècle is Le Lien et le Ligne, the bookshop of M. Bruno
Leclercq, which can be found at http://www.ligne-et-lien.com/. 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.
Click its strangely attenuated colophon to go straight to its Wilde
items.
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.
Finally, 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. Click the image below
for their website.
V.
Ebay
Ebay is an on-line auction house
where many Wilde items are offered, from second-hand paperbacks to
playbills to limited editions: 387 items when we looked for this issue, 431 for
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:
The BBC Oscar Wilde Collections : Four discs.
‘Let the
BBC transport you back to the decadent aristocratic drawing rooms of the 1890's
England. Lovingly restored for DVD, these plays feature a who's who of great
actors of the British stage and screen including Sir John Gielgud, Joan
Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Margaret Leighton and Gemma Jones.’
Includes:
The
Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture
of Dorian Gray
An Ideal
Husband
Lady
Windermere's Fan
Plus The Life and Loves of Oscar
Wilde - A 60 Minute Feature on the life of Oscar Wilde
An incredible estate sale find. These are 3 volume set of
miniatures 5 1/4"x3 1/2"of The Brocade series from
the House of Pomegranates. The books are in perfect condition hardly read.
The original tissue paper still on the books although it is creased and torn.
They have there own small sleeves and then they are placed in box
that unfortunately has damage. Two sides are broken off and the box is badly
stained.
The Young King-The star child. Dedicated to Margaret Lady
brooke.Published by Thomas B.Moscher Portland Maine MDCCCVI
The Birthday of the Infana. dedicated to Mrs. William Grenfell of
Taplow Court. Published Thomas B. Moscher DCCCV
The Fisherman and his soul. Dedicated to H.S H Alice, Princess of
Monaco. Published Thomas B. Moscher DCCCV
Back Page notes: Four Hundred and Twenty Five copies of this book have
been printed on Japan Vellum,and type distributed in the month of
June MDCCCV at the press of George D. Loring, Portalnd Maine. Note: Same notes
but one was published in August one in Fenruary.
Incidentely some of the pages in the front are still not cut.
[The spelling and punctuation of the above appear thus in ebay. Editor, THE OSCHOLARS]
OSCAR WILDE - HEINRICH VOGELER, 1872 Bremen-1942 in Kasachstan
Die Erzählungen und Märchen
mit Zeichnungen und
Buchschmuck von Heinrich Vogeler
Original-Ausgabe von
1911 mit dem bekannten schwarzen Karton mit goldeingepreßter
Vogelerdekoration auf Titel und Rücken und dem äußert seltenen
Schutzumschlag, ebenfalls mit Vogelerdekoration am Rücken,
Rücken hell, Einband oben etwas lichtrandig, nicht bestoßen, Rücken
perfekt (falsche Jahreszahl 1910 - auf dem Umschlag und innen
1911) kein Namenseintrag auf den leeren Vorblatt, keine
Sporflecken, gutes weißes Vorkriegs-Papier altersbedingt nicht nachgedunkelt,
zweifarbige Titeldekoration, sehr guter Zustand .
Vogeler,
der Sohn eines Bremer Kaufmanns besucht die Düsseldorfer Akademie und
landet schließlich in Worpswede - einem damals noch ein
weltabgeschiedenes Dorf in der Nähe von Bremen; war Kriegsfreiwilliger im
1. Weltkrieg und nach dem Krieg idealistischer Kommunist, stirbt während
des 2. Weltkriegs in Kasachstan. zahlreiche Lit: u.a. Thieme/Becker.
Sammlerbuch! Eine gute Gelegenheit für jeden
Vogeler-Freund!
Weitere Vogelerbücher folgen
Privatverkauf ohne Garantie und Rückgaberecht
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Dutton,
New York, 1928, First Edition with the Vassos illustrations.
Gray decorated boards with black cloth spine, quarto, 124 pages, dramatic
tissue-protected b&w illustrations by John Vassos.
Condition: Good covers and Very Good contents. (Covers have fading,
soiling and wear. Name of former owner in front pastedown. Clean contents with
age-toned paper.)
Finally, we
include once more this piece of kitsch, described as a framed print of the
statue by Jeanne Rynhart of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Park, Dublin, because it is
not in Merrion Park, and it is not by Jeanne Rynhart. Which all goes to show…
Descriptions are those of the
booksellers, and without any reason for disbelief, nonetheless
THE
OSCHOLARS cannot vouch
for their accuracy
(while sometimes appreciating their quaintness).
VI. Finally…
This odd
manikin, which represents Oscar Wilde as he is perceived and as he never was,
is available from http://howcool.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=24401
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