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issue no 31: November/December 2006 |
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Revised for transfer from www.irishdiaspora.net
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SOME SELL
AND OTHERS BUY |
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A monthly report on Wilde and
related subjects for sale. |
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Readers are invited to
advertise (free) for items sought or for sale / exchange. |
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Please mention THE OSCHOLARS if ordering or inquiring, as
this will help keep us on mailing lists. |
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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. We are
very pleased to have the continued interest by Michael Goss of
Delectus Books in looking at what is on offer. |
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Delectus Books are offering the following for sale. A further selection of books offered by
Delectus relating to the fin-de-siècle in France will be found in our sister
publication rue des beaux arts. |
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Delectus can be found at www.delectusbooks.com.
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A SMITHERS EDITION
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[008440]
Cope, Cyprian. Arabesques: A Perspective. London: Leonard
Smithers, 1899. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket as
Issued. Important book of the 1890s. Spine extremities worn with 3’ split in
front fore edge, corners rubbed. Some pages uncut. Rare in any condition.
£375.00 |
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A SMITHERS REPRINT
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[027058]
Bouleau, M. Le Comte Du. The Petticoat Dominant or Woman's Revenge:
The Autobiography of a Young Nobleman as a Pendant to Gynecocracy.
London: Delectus Books, 1994. First Thus. 8vo. Hardcover. Signed by
Publisher. As New / As New. ISBN: 1897767021. An insolent aristocratic youth,
Charles, makes an unwelcome, though not initially discouraged, pass at his
voluptuous tutoress Laura. In disgust at this transgression she sends Charles
to stay with her cousin Diane d'Erebe, in a large country house inhabited by
a coterie of governesses. They put him through a strict regime of corrective
training, involving urolagnia, and enforced feminisation; dressing him in
corsets and petticoats to rectify his unruly character. Written under a
pseudonym, by London lawyer Stanislas De Rhodes, and first published in 1898
by Leonard Smithers' Erotica Biblion Society, Delectus have reset the
original into a new edition with an introduction by Michael R. Goss. ‘Frantic.
breathless. spicy. restating the publisher's place at the top of the erotic
heap.’ Divinity. ‘A great classic of fetish erotica. A marvellous period
piece.’ Bizarre. ‘Delicious.’ Sydney Morning Herald. £19.95 |
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ALASTAIR
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[021340] Arwas, Victor. Alastair: Illustrator
of Decadence. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979. First Edition. 4to.
Paperback. As New ISBN: 0500271526. Alastair, pseudonym for Hans Henning
Voight (1887-1969), specialised in illustrating the plays, novels and short
stories of his favourite period, the 1890s. His most celebrated author was
Oscar Wilde, but he also illustrated the classic 18th century erotic novel,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. £25.00 |
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ALLEN
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[001052] Allen, Grant. The British Barbarians.
London: John Lane, 1895. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fair / No Jacket.
Ciculating library label pasted inside front board. Rear hinge cracked. Spine
top worn. Rare. £35.00 |
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[001051] Allen, Grant. Science in Arcady.
London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1882. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No
Jacket, as Issued. Rare. £55.00 |
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[001039] Allen, Grant. The Lower Slopes.
London: Elkin Matthews, 1894. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket as
Issued. Limited to 600 copies. End papers foxed, spine extremities slightly
worn. Rare. £125.00 |
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BEARDSLEY |
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[026712] Beardsley, Aubrey. Under the Hill:
The Story of Venus and Tannhauser. London: Olympia Press, 1966. First
Thus. 12mo. Paperback. Very Good. Completed by Canadian author and poet John
Glassco. Some creasing to cover.
£20.00 |
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[014408] Colvin, David. Aubrey Beardsley: A Slave to
Beauty. New York: Welcome Rain, 1998. First US Edition. 4to. Paperback in
Wraps. As New ISBN: 1566490138. Creating some of the most striking imagery of
the last hundred years, Aubrey Beardsley was probably the most notorious
artist of the fin de siècle in England. Disturbingly erotic and sensuous, his
drawings shocked many in the 1890s, yet endure as profoundly evocative of the
Aesthetic movement associated with the work of Oscar Wilde, and have enjoyed
a widespread resurgence in the wake of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. An
art historian and publisher of arcane texts, David Colvin explores not only
Beardsley's work in this richly illustrated volume, but views the artist's
tragically short life and career through the impressions and remembrances of
his friends and contemporaries. £4.95 |
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[001703] Benkovitz, Miriam. Aubrey Beardsley: An
Account of His Life. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First Edition. 8vo.
Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0241103827. Biography of the Victorian
artist. Price clipped. £25.00 |
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BEERBOHM |
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[018253] Beerbohm, Max. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some
Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm. London:
Hutchinson & Co., Third Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No
Jacket. Beerbohm was a major figure in British theatre. Includes chapters by
Edmund, Gilbert Parker, G.B. Shaw and other luminaries. Rebound in strong,
but worn, library binding. nd. c.1920. £20.00 |
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[024670] Beerbohm, Max. The Happy Hypocrite.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. Fourth Printing. 8vo. Cloth.
Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. £10.00 |
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[027144] Beerbohm, Max. Around Theatres. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1969. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as
Issued. ISBN: 0837103037. Beerbohm succeeded George Bernard Shaw as dramatic
critic of the Saturday Review in 1898, and many of his reviews are here
reprinted W.B. Yeats, Synge, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Barrie, Sarah
Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry, Yvette Guilbert, etc. Mint unread copy. £22.95 |
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[023418] Beerbohm, Max. Yet Again. London:
William Heinemann, 1951. Reprint. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket.
£10.00 |
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[023416]
Beerbohm, Max. Works and More. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1946.
Third Printing. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. £15.00 |
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[024669]
Beerbohm, Max. Seven Men and Two Others. London: William Heinemann, 1950.
Second Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong
library binding. £15.00 |
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[023421] Felstiner, John. The Lies of Art: Max
Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. First
Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0575015675. ‘Beerbohm,
the man who drove Oscar Wilde to ask someone 'When you are alone with him,
does he take off his face and reveal his mask?' chose to cultivate his
reputation as a wit, an enigma, a finished dandy. With delicacy and
precision, Professor Felstiner works back through the play of refracted
images to find the artist himself, a man of tough, independent intelligence,
so unexpectedly compassionate toward the men he wrote about and drew --Henry
James, Rossetti, Wilde, Beardsley, Shaw and Swinburne. This close study of
the greatest of modern parodists and caricaturists reveals the seeming
easiness of his pose as the deliberately worked re-creation of a profoundly
ironic, even fragmented imagination. With the aid of dozens of the greatest
Beerbohm drawings and some of the paintings that influenced him most,
Felstiner traces how and why Beerbohm flourished in the journalistic culture
of the eighteen-nineties and how he developed his parody both of figure and
of literary form as a medium through which art might hope to survive in the
modern world..’ £18.00 |
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[011119] Benkovitz, Miriam J.. Frederick Rolfe: Baron
Corvo A Biography. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First US Edition.
8vo. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 0399120092. £20.00 |
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CROWLEY |
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[021706] Crowley, Aleister (J.F.C. Fuller).
Bibliotheca Crowleyana. London: Delectus Books, 1991. First Thus. 8vo.
Booklet. As New ISBN: 1897767102. In the absence of a full bibliography of
Aleister Crowley, this facsimile edition of the catalogue of J.F.C. Fuller's
collection, sold in 1966, provides an important bibliographical reference and
listing of many rare and unique books, pamphlets, proofs, MSS, etc. by or associated
with Crowley, including many not found in the Gerald Yorke's listing along
with the full text of Fuller's informative introductory essay. ‘An essential
resource for the Crowley collector.’ Nuit-Isis. £4.95 |
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[026001] Booth, Martin. A Magick Life: The Life of
Aleister Crowley. London: Coronet, 2001. Third Printing. 12mo. Paperback.
As New ISBN: 0340718064. Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet, novelist,
bisexual adventurer and drug user was not a man to inspire half-hearted
reaction in his own lifetime. He was either adored or vilified. So Martin
Booth's crisply written, agenda-free biography which sets out simply to tell
the truth objectively is a welcome addition to Crowley literature. Born to a
wealthy brewing family, Crowley, whose parents belonged to the fanatical
Plymouth Brethren sect, had a miserably repressed childhood. He spent much of
the rest of his life apparently trying to shake off what he regarded as the
filth of Christianity. Magic for Crowley, who decided while still at
Cambridge in 1898 on a career as a magus, was intrinsically linked to human
will. He came to believe that he and his disciples could control almost
anything by exerting will. Like the poet WB Yeats he joined the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn. Eventually he became leader of the Order of the
Oriental Templars or Ordo Templi Orientis, which survives as a huge
international cult organisation and gave Booth access to its archives. As
Booth says ‘Crowley may have been oversexed but he was first and foremost a
religious and not a debauched character’. But famously, and how the tabloid
press loved it, Crowley believed that sex was what liberated the creative
force necessary to his ‘work’ and he had ritual (and spontaneous) vaginal and
or anal intercourse with many hundreds of women and men all over the world.
Sometimes the rituals--upon which Booth is to be congratulated for sparing us
too many prurient details--involved animals too. Drugs changed the perception
of the participants. Booth's book does what it promises. It provides the
extraordinary facts and leaves you to decide for yourself from an informed
position whether this man--in whom interest has grown considerably since his
death in 1947, especially during the 1960s--was merely a degenerate charlatan
or an impassioned, although arguably misguided, magical missionary, pitiful
at the end of his life. £7.95 |
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[024905] Custance, Olive. The Selected Poems of Olive
Custance. London: Cecil Woolf, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As
New / As New. ISBN: 0900821426. Introduced and selected by Brocard Sewell.
Includes an original publisher's flyer advertising the book. £25.00. |
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D’ANNUNZIO |
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[001061] d'Annunzio, Gabriele. The Daughter of Jorio:
A Pastoral Tragedy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1907. First US
Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Good / No Jacket. A play. Translated by Charlotte
Porter, Pietro Isola and Alice Henry. Spine faded. £30.00 |
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[001062] d'Annunzio, Gabriele. The Virgins of the
Rocks. London: William Heinemann, 1899. First English Edition. 8vo.
Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Translated by Agatha Hughes. Hinges
repaired with clear tape. Spine grubby. £25.00 |
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[026241] d'Annunzio, Gabriele. The Flame of Life. London:
William Heinemann, 1900. First English Edition. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Good /
No Jacket. Translated from the Italian by Kassandra Vivaria. Spine top worn.
£35.00 |
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DAVIDSON |
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[001165] Davidson, John. A Second Series of Fleet
Street Eclogues. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition.
8vo. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket. £25.00 |
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[006651] Davidson, John. The Ballad of a Nun. ill.
Paul Henry. London: John Lane, 1895. First Thus. 16mo.. Hard Cover. Very Good
/ No Jacket as Issued. Includes 6 plates by Paul Henry. Part of ‘Flowers of
Parnassus. A Series of Famous Poems Illustrated’ Vol. XXV. Bound in limp
green boards, some very minor rubbing to extremities. Scarce. £195.00 |
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DOWSON |
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[000544]
Dowson, Ernest. Dilemmas. Leipzig: J.M. Insel Verlage, 1903. First German Edition. 8vo.
Paperback. Fine First German translation. Hand numbered limited edition
625/1100. £115.00 |
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[021562] Adams, Jad. Madder Music, Stronger
Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent. London: I.B. Tauris
& Co., 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN:
1860644708. A biography of Ernest Dowson who was a major poet of the
late-Victorian Decadent period who wrote some of the most quoted lyrics in
English verse including them 'gone with the wind' and 'days of wine and
roses', showing how his strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into
the pure verse of lyrics such as 'Cynara'. £9.99 |
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EFFEMINACY
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[009933] Bristow, Joseph. Effeminate England:
Homoerotic Writing after 1885. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
First Edition. 8vo. Laminated Boards. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN:
0231103484. Explores the legacy of effeminacy in homoerotic literature that
began more than a century ago with the 1885 Labouchere Amendment
criminalizing male homosexual contact and Oscar Wilde's subsequent
incarceration. This broad overview looks into the century that followed these
defining moments in the history of gay literature, demonstrating how the
effeminate behaviour that came to be connected so solidly with male
homosexual identity has manifested itself in the literature of gay male
writers in England. Focuses closely on the works and lives of several
prominent British literary figures of the past century, including E.M.
Forster, John Addington Symonds, and Quentin Crisp. In a concluding section,
the author evaluates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men's writing and
offers a thoughtful, original reading of Alan Hollinghurst's novel, The
Swimming Pool Library. The author shows how the stereotype of effeminacy has
been variously celebrated and challenged over the years, from Forster's
strong moral distinction between ‘feminine’ and ‘effeminate’ in Howards End
to the camp effeminacy in the writing of Ronald Firbank. The book shows how
different writers have helped to attach sentiments of stigma and pride,
loathing and love, to the stereotype of the effeminate gay man through their
literature. Includes notes, bibliography and index. £12.95 |
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[027199] Dijkstra, Bram. Evil Sisters: The Threat of
Female Sexuality and the Cult of Manhood. New York: Henry Holt &
Company, 1998. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN:
0805055495. Beginning with ‘vamp’ Theda Bara's 1915 silent-film debut in A
Fool There Was, Dijkstra (Idols of Perversity), writing with passionate
feminist scholarship, decodes images of women as predators, destroyers and
vultures who deplete civilized males of their creative energies. He unmasks
predatory females in Hemingway, H.L. Mencken, Elinor Glyn's bestselling 1907
potboiler Three Weeks, and unravels the sexist assumptions of sociologist
Emile Durkheim, sexologist Havelock Ellis and philosopher of love Remy de
Gourmont. Shuttling between high and popular culture, Dijkstra argues that
antifeminine, racist and imperialist attitudes merge in Conrad's Heart of
Darkness, Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, in Kipling, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, in Jung's psychology of unchanging archetypes,
in the social Darwinist teachings of Herbert Spencer and William Graham
Sumner. Finally, he traces a trajectory of fantasies involving men attaining
supermale status from Nietzsche to Ezra Pound and Hitler. His conviction that
sexist imagery, codified around 1900, still dominates the popular imagination
informs this brilliant, often startling study. Dijkstra is professor of
American and comparative literature at UC-San Diego. £11.95 |
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[011292] Beckson, Karl. Henry Harland: His
Life and Work. London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1978. First Thus.
8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. Drawing upon 315 letters written by
Harland and his wife Beckson provides a biographical and critical study
that’s places Harland in the context of the 19th century. £40.00 |
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HOMOSEX
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[007788] Bersani,
Leo. Homos. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition.
8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0674406192. In this work, Leo Bersani
addresses homosexuality in modern culture. In his chapters on contemporary
queer theory, on Foucault and psychoanalysis, on the politics of sadomasochism,
and on the image of ‘the gay outlaw’ in works by Andre Gide, Marcel Proust
and Jean Genet, Bersani raises the possibility that same-sex desire by its
very nature can disrupt oppressive social orders. £7.95 |
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IRVING
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[021977] Bingham, Madeleine. Henry Irving and the
Victorian Theatre. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. First Edition.
8vo. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0049280384. £20.00 |
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MACHEN |
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[015695] Carter, Frederick. The Dragon of the
Alchemists. ill. Frederick Carter. Montreal: 93 Publishing, 1979. First
Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0919690416. An essay and
thirty-eight drawings, mystical and allegorical. Carter is often seen by
occultists as little more than an acquaintance of Austin Spare with whom he
co-edited Form Magazine, co-wrote the essay Automatic Drawing, and who also
wrote the introduction to Spare's Focus of Life. In truth, Carter was a
prolific artist, writer, illustrator and translator who worked with
publishers such as Fanfrolico Press and great writers such as D.H. Lawrence.
Carter was also fascinated with the Book of Revelation and studied works such
as Bond & Lea's Apostolic Gnosis and William Stirling's The Canon. This
is the first volume in a trilogy of his studies and his foundational essay regarding
astrology, Revelation and The Dragon in the sky. With an Introduction by
Arthur Machen. Small hole in spine of d/j. Rare. £200.00 |
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MEDIæVALISM |
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[025815] Chandler, Alice. A Dream of Order: The
Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Literature. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / Fine. ISBN: 0710070373.
The nineteenth century medieval revival was a response to an increasingly
depersonalized and industrialized age. It was part of the quest for
exaltation and timeless beauty that dominated the Romantic era and part, too,
of the search for faith and order that characterized Victorian times. This
study examines the way in which a half mythical, half historical conception
of the Middle Ages dominated the Romantic and Victorian periods, showing how
this idealized medieval past was used as a standard and corrective for the
social and spiritual ills of the age. £20.00 |
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MOORE |
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[020172] Cave, Richard Allen. A Study of the Novels
of George Moore. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1978. First Edition. 8vo.
Hardcover. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0901072583. Study on Irish author
George Moore. Irish Literary Studies, No. 3. £20.00 |
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PATAPHYICS |
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[021680] Bok, Christian. Pataphysics: The Poetics of
an Imaginary Science. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001.
First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 0810118769. A
critical look at the historical and cultural implications of Alfred Jarry's
pseudoscience, pataphysics. What Alfred Jarry calls ‘the science of imaginary
solutions,’ has until now gone largely ignored by literary scholars, due in
part to its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity. Nevertheless, this
capricious philosophy has inspired nearly one hundred years of avant-garde
experimentation. Christian Bok redresses this critical omission by tracing
the tangled history of pataphysics, discussing the tension between science
and poetics, in order to demonstrate that pataphysics constitutes an
intrinsic, but neglected, cornerstone of postmodernity itself. Bok examines
the work of Jarry, arguing that it represents a humorous addendum to the
philosophy of Nietzsche, while also considering the influence of 'pataphysics
upon the poetic legacy of the twentieth century, particularly the work of
Italian Futurists, French Oulipians, and Canadian Jarryites. Bok resorts to
the radical poetics of such contemporary philosophers as Delauze, Derrida,
Baudrillard, and Serres in order to explicate the pataphysical relationship
between rationalism and its discontents. Bok draws on a wide range of reading
in poetry and theory to establish a firm historical ground for understanding
the influence of pataphysics - all the
while making a variety of seemingly difficult or obscure material accessible
in a surprisingly charming and poetic manner. A long overdue critical look at
a significant strain of the twentieth-century avant-garde, his book raises
important historical, cultural, and theoretical issues germane to the
production and reception of poetry, how we think about it, how we write it,
how we read it, and what sorts of claims it makes upon our understanding.
£14.95 |
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[015751] Dickson, Lovat. Radclyffe Hall at the Well
of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle. London: Collins, 1975. First Edition.
8vo. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good / Good. ISBN: 0002112353. ‘When Lovat
Dickson first came to London in 1929, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall were,
he remembered, 'very unusual looking. Una with her monocle, and both of them
smoking little green cigars.' In 1963 Lady Troubridge died, leaving Lovat
Dickson the copyrights to Radclyffe Hall’s books. £15.00 |
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REDON |
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[026201Beckford, William. Vathek. London:
Creation Books, 2000. First Thus. 8vo. Paperback. As New / As New. ISBN:
1840680180. A crawling meditation on the transgressions of the depraved.
Witches, demons, human sacrifices and other spectral horror all mark the
progress of Vathek as he journeys to the underworld on his pilgrimage to the
underworld, where his sins and damnations flower into eternal torture. First
published in the late 18th Century in French, William Beckford’s Gothic
classic Vathek was revised by the author in 1816. The book includes
lithographs by the symbolist artist Odilon Redon, complementing the bizarre
text and making this the most completely decadent edition available in print.
Vathek features an illuminating introduction by Jeremy Reed discussing both
the text and the eccentric life of William Beckford, a youthful millionaire
who spent his fortunes on building the ultimate Gothic folly, where he
indulged in such homosexual vices that he was finally exiled from England.
£2.74 |
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REDONDA |
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[026220] De Fortis, Paul. The Kingdom of Redonda
1865-1990. Upton: The Aylesford Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo.
Paperback in Wraps. As New / As New. ISBN: 1869955161. A celebration, edited
by Paul de Fortis, for The Redondan Cultural Foundation. Limited to 400
copies. £70.00 |
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[022871] Deghy, Guy. Paradise in the Strand: The
Story of Romanos. London: The Richards Press, 1958. First Edition. 8vo.
Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. History of Romano's restaurant during its
heyday from 1877-1901 focusing mainly on the regular habitués which include
some very interesting characters of Victorian Bohemia. £15.00 |
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[025832] Carter, Margaret L.. The Vampire in
Literature: A Critical Bibliography (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No. 21).
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New /
As New. ISBN: 0835719987. The definitive bibliography of the vampire in
fiction, verse and dramatic works. Includes text by Devendra P. Varma. An
essential reference for the academic and vampire fan. Last few copies. An
unread copy. £19.95 |
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WILDE |
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[006313] Anonymous. The Shame of Oscar
Wilde from the Shorthand Reports. Paris: Privately Printed, 1906. First
US Edition. 8vo. Paperback in Wraps. Very Good / Very Good. An account of
Wilde's trial for homosexual acts with Lord Alfred Douglas. Originally
published by Charles Carrington. This edition c.1920s. £55.00 |
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[025664] Dowling, Linda. Language and Decadence in
the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0691014728. Important
study including Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Symons,
Algernon C. Swinburne, Walter Pater etc. £25.00 |
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YEATS |
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[025027] Bridge, Ursula (Editor). W.B. Yeats and T.
Sturge Moore Their Correspondence 1901-1937. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket.
Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00 |
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[027240] Adlard, John. Stenbock, Yeats and the
Nineties. London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1969. First Edition.
12mo.Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0900821043. Biographical exploration of
the man described by W.B. Yeats as ‘Scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet,
pervert, most charming of men.’ Includes an unpublished essay on Stenbock by
Arthur Symons and a bibliography by Timothy d'Arch Smith. Limited to 750
copies, this copy not numbered. £45.00 |
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[025050] Castle,
Gregory. Modernism and the Celtic Revival. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New.
ISBN: 052179319X. A study of the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish
Revivalists such as W.B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce arguing that
anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British
imperialism. £14.95 |
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[025820] Chapple, J.A.V.. Documentary and Imaginative
Literature 1880-1920. London: Blandford Press, 1970. First Edition. 8vo.
Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0713736054. The literature surveyed in
this book reflects many of the main trends and happenings of the period
1880-1920, such as the Great Depression of Agriculture, the rise of
Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, the election successes of the Liberal
party, the Suffragette movement and the First World War. Selected writings of
Hardy, Moore, Barrie, Gissing, Morris, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Kipling,
James, Conrad, Forster, Owen, Yeats, Wilde and other lesser authors have been
studied in some detail for their numerous, varied connections with the
history of their time. £20.00 |
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The Aylesford Review Vol VIII Number 2: Aubrey
Beardsley and the 1890s. Maidstone: St. Alberts Press, 1966. First
Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New Special issue on artist Aubrey Beardsley.
£30.00 |
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[003914] . The Aylesford Review Vol VII Number 4 Winter
1965/Spring 1966. Maidstone: St. Alberts Press, 1966. First Edition. 8vo.
Paperback. As New Includes features on John Gray. £35.00 |
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[008618] . The Aylesford Review Vol IV Number 5
Winter 1961-1962. Maidstone: St. Alberts Press, 1961. First Edition. 8vo.
Booklet. Fine Includes a feature on Ronald Firbank. £35.00 |
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2. The following are offered
(subject, as indeed with any of the above, to continued availability) by
Patrick Pollak: |
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a. DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred. Collected Satires. Fortune Press.
1926. L.8vo. LIMITED to 550 copies on Verge de Montgolfier a la Forme, in
Dijon, France, by Maurice Darantiere. |
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Original black and white marbled boards, uncut,
black calf spine rubbed and worn, lacking the backstrip, corners also a bit
worn, occasional foxing, front blanks browned from a news-cutting loosely
inserted [a letter from Douglas to the Evening Standard, 1928, discussing his
prison sentence in the 'second division'.] |
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INSCRIPTION, signed by Douglas on front free
end-paper – 'Herbert Moore Pim from his friend Alfred Douglas,
November 1926.' |
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PIM (1883-1950), born in Belfast, a notorious
controversialist, in his early days a committed Irish nationalist and
imprisoned for his political views. He was present in Dublin in 1916, at the
time of the Rising, supplying arms to the volunteers. In London, he became
friends with Lord Alfred Douglas and together they ran the literary magazine
'Plain English' and its successor 'Plain Speech'. Queen's University,
Belfast, has a collection of books and manuscripts relating to Pim and
containing half a dozen letters from Douglas to him. |
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PRICE – £300 plus postage and insurance. |
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b. WILDE,
Oscar. The Works of......... SUNFLOWER EDITION. Lamb
Publishing Co. New York. 1909. 15 volumes. 8vo. LIMITED EDITION
of 1000 copies, this being no. 395. All in publisher's half morocco and
marbled boards, all spines dilapidated and worn at the ends and edges, some
with loss, contents clean and joints firm. Plates in each volume, printed on
heavy paper, uncut. |
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Offered as an inexpensive binding set.
PRICE - £1000 plus postage and insurance. |
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CONTACT Mr Pollak at Moorview,
Plymouth Road, South Brent, Devon Tq10
9ht. Tel: 01364 73457 Fax: 01364 649 126
e-mail: patrick@rarevols.co.uk. Payment can be accepted with any of the
major credit cards, by cheque or bank transfer [details available at the
time]. |
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II. Posters
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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 on offer but we note the following: |
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BELLE EPOQUE 2004 Lincoln Center
Theater production, Art by James McMullan 14x22’ Cardstock $25; |
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DANCE OF DEATH Ian McKellen and Helen
Mirren star in Strindberg's classic 14x22’ Cardstock $25; HEDDA GABLER
Limited Printing Roundabout Theatre Company Production With Kelly McGillis,
Art by Scott McKowen 14x22’ Paper $25;
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JEKYLL & HYDE#2 1997 Broadway
Production 14x22’ Cardstock $20. |
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The company AllPosters has a large selection of Wilde-related
(and of course other) posters, prints and photographs that it sells
on-line. At the moment, 22nd November
2006 (11th October 2006) there are nineteen (eleven) on the site that can be
reached by clicking on the picture below, which is one of those for
sale. The figures in brackets refer to
our last report. |
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We also draw readers’ attention to the
International Poster Gallery, which specialises in Vintage posters, though
the use of this term is rather imprecise. |
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III. Bookshops
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We like to commend the following
bookshops because they salute Oscar Wilde.
We are interested to know of others. |
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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. |
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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 and perhaps a
reader has news? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Ebay is
an on-line auction house where many Wilde items are offered, from
second-hand paperbacks to playbills to limited editions: 522 (373) items when
we last looked, 22nd November 2006 (11th October 2003). The figures in brackets refer to our last report. We have set up this link –––-> which will take you
straight to ebay's Wilde pages. |
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This month we select for
illustration the following, which were recently on offer: |
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‘Let us lunch at the Lyric tomorrow at 1.30. It
is ages since I met you, isn't it? It seems so to me . Always yours, Oscar |
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The Viking is also a great playwright.’ One imagines that they had met earlier
that day, and that ‘the Viking’ was not much of a playwright. But who was he? |
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Not in Holland & Hart-Davis. |
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This is (obviously) the Spanish edition
(Biblioteca Nueva, 1934) of Cooper-Pritchard’s work of imagination. Readers are referred to two articles in The
Wildean. |
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Elliott, Peter |
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Turner, Frances |
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Le Procès d'Oscar Wilde
by Maurice Rostand. This three act play was, we believe, the
first time that Wilde was portrayed on stage.
Published in 1934 by Flammarion, it was performed in Paris in February
1935, thus antedating Leslie & Sewell Stokes’ Oscar Wilde by
eighteen months. It is not mentioned
by Tanitch, and we have not been able so far to discover who played
Wilde. Rostand was the son of
Edmond Rostand. The volume is decribed
as ‘Reliure
demi-cuir, dos lisse à 4 faux nerfs, avec caissons ornés de motifs
dorés et pièces de titre.
Tranche supérieure dorée.’ |
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Descriptions
are those of the booksellers, and without any reason for disbelief,
nonetheless |
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V. Calendars
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The time of year being what it is, we include a
number of 2007 calendars for fin-de-sièclistes. All these (and many more, ranging from the
‘worth having’ via the whimsical to the mawkish) can be found on the website www.peacockmirror.com,
to which we shall doubtless be returning. |
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VI. Finally…
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This odd manikin, which represents Oscar Wilde as
he is perceived and never as he was, is available from http://howcool.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=24401 |
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