THE OSCHOLARS

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Vol. IV No. 2

issue no 33: February 2007

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Table of Contents
I. Auction	IV. Bookshops
II. Books	V. Ebay
III. Posters	VI. Endpiece

I. Auction

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: a further selection was 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.

BEARDSLEY
[003299] Stanford, Derek. Aubrey Beardsley's Erotic Universe. London: New English Library, 1967. First Thus. 8vo. Paperback. Good ISBN: B0000CNEXZ. Essay on Beardsley with a selection of his illustrations. £15.00

[023621] Sturgis, Matthew. Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography. London: Harper Collins, 1999. First Paperback Edition. 12mo.Paperback. As New ISBN: 0006550568. When Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898, he was aged only 25 and had become one of the defining figures of the fin-de-siecle, a precocious draughtsman who redefined the limits of black-and-white art. b&w illustrations. £6.95

[003112] Weintraub, Stanley. Beardsley. London: W.H. Allen, 1967. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0491014503. Biography of the Victorian Artist. Price clipped. £25.00

BODLEY HEAD
[000067] Nelson, James G.. Elkin Matthews: Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0299122441. Biographical and bibliographical study of one of the most important English publishers of the 1890s. £4.99

CONDER
[021866] Rothenstein, John. The Life and Death of Conder. London: J.M. Dent, 1938. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. (b London, 24 Oct. 1868; d Virginia Water, Surrey, 9 Feb. 1909). English painter, a direct descendant of the sculptor Roubiliac. He lived in Australia from 1884 to 1890, then moved to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and became friendly with several leading avant-garde artists, notably Toulouse-Lautrec, whose notoriously dissipated lifestyle he shared. In 1897 he settled in London. His work, which is often tinged with a feeling of fin-de-siècle decadence, was included in numerous exhibitions and he became a well-known figure in the art world, but he fell seriously ill in 1906, a result of his debauched life, and stopped painting. He is best known for landscapes, Arcadian fantasies, and designs for fans; he also painted portraits and made a few lithographs and etchings. He was influenced by Whistler, but William Rothenstein commented that ‘Whistler never liked Conder and didn't care for his work. ‘He probably thought him too involved with his ladies of Montmartre, too fond of his absinthe’. Rebound in strong library binding. £35.00

CONNELL
[008438] Norreys Connell, F.. The Fool and His Heart Being the Plainly Told Story of Basil Thimm. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Novel by a minor 1890s author, a friend of poet Ernest Dowson. Rubbing to boards, spine and edges. Cracking to front hinge. Some spotting and foxing. Rare in any condition. £365.00

CORVO
[004976] Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo). The Armed Hands and Other Stories and Pieces. London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 0900821140. The deluxe edition. One of 200 copies on Basingwerk Parchment with protective plastic wraps. (Woolf A26b) £45.00

[004975] Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo). Collected Poems. London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 0900821124. The deluxe edition. One of 200 copies on Basingwerk Parchment with protective plastic wraps. (Woolf A27b) £45.00

[011094] Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo). The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice. London: Cassell, 1934. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. The author's last work and one which, because of the scandalous nature its contents, had to wait twenty years for a publisher. Introduction by A.J.A. Symons. In remainder binding. (Woolf A10) £30.00

DANDIES
[027215] Moers, Ellen. The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0803281013. Decadent dandyism as a social and literary phenomenon in England and France including Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Beau Brummell, Max Beerbohm, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Count d'Orsay, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Bulwer, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Byron etc. Includes a comprehensive bibliography. £29.99

D’ANNUNZIO

[001057] Jullian, Philippe. d'Annunzio: Adventurer, Poet, Lover of Genius. London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0269028226. A biography of novelist, playwright, and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) who shocked and dazzled early 20th-century Europe with his sexual exploits, military feats, and political escapades. More than any other figure since the unification of Italy, he casts a shadow forwards to the present day. His relationships with the worlds of Italian culture, theatre, and politics were unique, fiery, and always controversial. His literary achievements have influenced generations of Italian writers. This book is intended for students and scholars of Italian literature, history, and politics, European Decadentism, 19th- and 20th-century studies. £20.00

DECADENCE
[010793] Lehmann, John (Editor). The London Magazine Volume 7 No. 6 June 1960. London: The Shenval Press, 1960. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Fine Includes Sylvia Plath, L.P. Hartley, Charles Causely, George Orwell, George Gissing and Ian Fletcher on 1890s decadence. £20.00

[012688] Nalbantian, Suzanne. Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Crisis in Values. London: Macmillan, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0333246381. The Grammar of Decadence: Perversity, Paradox and Perplexity; 2. Dostoevsky and the Gap of Insufficiency; 3. Henry James and the Poetics of Postponement; 4. Emile Zola and the Hyperbole of Consumption; 5. Thomas Hardy and the Chronic Crisis Syndrome; 6. Joseph Conrad and the Dissolution of an Ethical Code: The Hollow Centre; 7. The Decadent Style. Notes and References and Index. £65.00

[015391] Stokes, John. In the Nineties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0226775380. An excellent survey of the decadence of the 1890s featuring Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Symons, George Bernard Shaw and others including lesser known acrobats, aesthetes, convicts, music hall performers and mysterious suicides along with the chief obsessions of the time: criminality, sexuality, madness and morbidity. £9.99

DOUGLAS
[025779] Murray, Douglas. Bosie: Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas. London: Sceptre, 2001. First Edition. 12mo.Paperback. As New ISBN: 0340767715. This new biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury and, most scandalously, the lover of Oscar Wilde, has attracted huge attention because of the age of the biographer. Douglas Murray began writing it at 17. It is an astonishing achievement: mature, considered, fluently written and richly detailed. Bosie's youth was the epitome of the 1890s, "greenery-yallery" decadence, but unlike his lover and mentor, the brilliant, doomed Wilde, Bosie lived on until 1945, becoming increasingly religious, repentant about his past (as Wilde never was), and finally a recluse. On one key issue, however, Murray seems seriously off-message: he argues that Bosie was a major literary figure in his own right, and that the value of his poetry has been seriously underrated. "He was a poet not just of the 90s but one who would endure the 20th century and produce a poem that would echo as a work of searing faith and a testament to spiritual renewal." Er . no. The poem Murray alludes to is "In Excelsis", Bosie's riposte to Wilde's work "De Profundis". But it is tiresomely self-absorbed, antiquated, and unimaginative, a prolonged whinge about the lot of the misunderstood genius. Nevertheless, Bosie's story is still worth telling, even if his poetic reputation is not worth defending, and Murray tells it extremely well. £4.99

DOWSON
[019090] Manchester Literary Club. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club: Volume XXX. Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, 1904. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket as Issued. Includes an essay on Ernest Dowson by William Bagshaw and others on De Quincey, William Wordsworth, George Gissing, Henry Vaughan, Shakespeare etc. Pages uncut. £45.00

[025877] Valentine, Mark and Dobson, Roger (Editors). Aklo: A Journal of the Fantastic Spring 1988. Southampton & Oxford: Caermaen Books, 1988. First Edition. 12mo.Booklet. As New Journal celebrating the authors of the 1890s. Features on Ernest Dowson, Lautreamont, John Gawsworth, Montague Summers etc. Now scarce. £35.00

DRUGS
[025564] Plant, Sadie. Writing on Drugs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First US Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0374293341. Plant's fast-paced primer demonstrates how narcotics, stimulants, and hallucinogens have inspired and influenced writers through the ages. Beginning with opium's influence on De Quincey, Coleridge and Poe, and moving on to cannabis and hashish (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Flaubert), cocaine (Stevenson, Freud, Doyle) and speed and LSD (Kerouac, Burroughs, Leary), she misses nary a literary toke, snort, or shot. Along the way, Plant, a cultural studies scholar, presents a great deal of hard, cold fact. She reveals, for example, when and where methamphetamine was synthesized (Japan, 1919); when it was banned in the U.S. during the 1950s; and what its current medicinal uses are (treating attention deficit disorder). Her painstaking research also reveals, for instance, that the word "assassin" was derived from an 11th-century movement whose adherents were so fond of hashish that they were called hashishiyya. Such tidbits accrue into fascinating social histories and provide colourful background material, though they can also distract from the key point, namely that drugs are central to modern culture. The final sections, on the 1960s, are the book's best. Here we find writers, poets and philosophers reflecting on what Herbert Marcuse called a "revolution in perception," a necessary and complementary aspect of the "social liberation" then being experienced in the body politic. Plant ends her journey with a thoughtfully postmodern turn, suggesting that to write under the influence of drugs "is to plunge into a world where nothing is as simple or as stable as it seems." £7.95

GOTHIC
[026987] Summers, Montague. The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. London: Fortune Press, 1969. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket. ISBN: 0852400004. The definitive study of gothic literature from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a short history of the publishers and circulating libraries along with a chapter on Surrealism and the Gothic Novel. Authors covered include Charles Maturin, Matthew G. Lewis, Francis Lathom, Ann Radcliffe, and many others. Illustrated with 15 plates. Rare. £45.00

GRAY

[023239] McCormack, Jerusha Hull. The Man Who Was Dorian Gray. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0312232780. Biography of the English 1890s poet, John Gray, on whom Oscar Wilde based the character Dorian Gray. Contains much about his partner Andre Raffalovich, Charles Rickets, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson and Lord Alfred Douglas. "This is an important contribution to an understanding of Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries, and how their strange reading of the Roman Catholic faith touched and tortured so many of them." Frank McGuinness. £14.95

[020024] Sewell, Brocard. Footnote to the Nineties: A Memoir of John Gray and Andre Raffalovich. London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1968. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. Biography of the 1890s poet, John Gray, on whom Oscar Wilde based the character Dorian Gray. £25.00

[022476] Sewell, Brocard. In the Dorian Mode: A Life of John Gray 1866-1934. Padstow: Tabb House, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0907018181. Biography of the English 1890s poet, John Gray, on whom Oscar Wilde based the character Dorian Gray. £25.00

HARRIS
[000838] Pullar, Philippa. Frank Harris. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: 024189185X. Biography of the author of My Life and Loves. £20.00

HOMOSEX
[002887] Masters, R.E.L.. The Homosexual Revolution. New York: Belmont, 1964. First Paperback Edition. 16mo. Paperback. Fine Important study of homosexuality in men and women. £8.00

[001273] Rowse, A.L.. Homosexuals in History: Ambivalence in Society, Literature and the Arts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0026056208. £28.00

[017936] Reade, Brian (Editor). Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900. An Anthology Selected with an Introduction by Brian Reade. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0710067976. An important collection of English prose and verse, either homosexual in tone or providing a vehicle for homosexual emotions and in several examples even overtly and experimentally frank. £35.00

[011626] Reid, Anthony. The Eternal Flame: A World Anthology of Homosexual Verse c.2000 B.C. to c.2000 A.D.. Elmhurst: Dyanthus Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 155741016X. English verse translation by Anthony Reid, Volume 1 Greece, Islam, Italy & France. The most wide-ranging and ambitious project in this field ever undertaken, with introductions and notes to each of the sections. A second volume covering Great Britain, Europe, America and the East was projected but will not now be published. £28.00

[014080] Saslow, James M.. Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts. London: Penguin, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0670859532. The first comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian visual expression in all media. Following an Introduction that discusses the sexual and artistic practices of prehistoric and early societies, the book examines the classical world's visual celebration of homo erotic love and how its status among the Greeks permeated later civilisations. Illustrated throughout. £9.95

HYDE

[009766] Hyde, H. Montgomery. A History of Pornography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First US Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. £20.00

[009574] Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Other Love: An Historical and Contemporary Survey of Homosexuality in Britain. London: Heinemann, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0434359025. Described by the secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society as a fascinating informative legal, social and literary history of homosexuality. Includes unpublished memoirs of the Victorian homosexual writer John Addington Symonds and the original account of the long series of criminal trials of homosexuals beginning with that of the Earl of Castlehaven in 1631. £28.00

[025035] Woods, Gregory. A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0300080883. An account of male gay literature, across cultures, languages, and from ancient times to the present. This work celebrates the complexity of the literature that gay men write, read, and offer to the broadest market. £12.95

JACK THE RIPPER

[021763] Sharkey, Terence. Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Investigation The Facts, The Fiction, The Solution. New York: Dorset Press, 1992. First US Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0880297298. Important account of the bizarre Victorian sex murders. £15.00

[023346] Wright, Stephen. Jack the Ripper: An American View. New York: Mystery Notebook Editions, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0960190422. Important account of the bizarre Victorian sex murders. The author writes in some detail of several of the leading 'Ripper' candidates. He features amongst others: Tumbelty, Chapman, H.H. Holmes, Maybrick, Kominski, and Stephen's own suspect George Hutchinson. With notes, index, references and bibliography. Scarce private printing of only 150 copies, this copy not numbered. £28.00

JAMES
[022786] James, Henry. The Complete Plays of Henry James. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949. First Edition. 8vo. Quarter Leather. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Edited by Leon Edel. Rebound in strong library binding. £30.00

[023969] Stevens, Hugh. Henry James and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 052162259X. Stevens argues that James's writing contains daring and radical representations of transgressive desires and marginalized sexual identities. He demonstrates the importance of incestuous desire, masochistic fantasy, and same-sex passions in a body of fiction which ostensibly conforms to, while ironically mocking, the contemporary moral and publishing codes James faced. James critiques the very notion of sexual identity, and depicts the radical play of desires which exceed and disrupt any stable construction of identity. In a number of his major novels and tales, Stevens argues, James anticipates the main features of modern 'gay' or 'queer' fiction through plots and narrative strategies, which opposes heterosexual marriage and homoerotic friendship. This original and exciting work will transform our understanding of this most enigmatic of writers. £14.95

JOHNSON

[000995] Johnson, Lionel. Some Winchester Letters. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919. First Edition. 8vo. Quarter Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Corners rubbed, rear hinge cracked. £25.00

[011108] Johnson, Lionel. Poetry & Fiction: Reflections on Three Nineteenth Century Authors Herbert P. Horne, Hubert Crackanthorpe, William Johnson Cory. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback in Wraps. Private Press. Very Good / Good. Hand numbered limited edition 87/95 copies printed on paper made by Sommerville of Milton Bridge. Original marbled wrappers, slight tear in front wrap, printed paper label. (Anderson 90) £45.00

LE GALLIENNE

[003422] Le Gallienne, Richard. The Book-Bills of Narcissus. London: John Lane, 1895. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket as Issued. £15.00

[024439] Le Gallienne, Richard. From a Paris Garret. ill. Barday. London: Richards Press, 1944. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Introduction by Grant Richards. £15.00

[001191] Le Gallienne, Richard. English Poems. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1892. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Signed by Author. Good / No Jacket. Signed, hand numbered, limited large paper edition 111/150 copies. Some minor foxing, edges and corners rubbed, some cracking and discolouration to spine back. Rare item in any condition. £295.00

[001189] Le Gallienne, Richard. The Quest for the Golden Girl. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897. Second Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Signed by Author's Father. Good / No Jacket. Signed presentation copy from the author's father. Nice association copy. Spine extremities showing wear. £100.00

[001053] Le Gallienne, Richard. The Romantic '90s. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First US Edition. 8vo. Quarter Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Remains of rear panel and flap from d/j enclosed. Corners rubbed. £20.00

[000919] Le Gallienne, Richard. The Religion of a Literary Man. London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Hand numbered limited edition 1/250 large paper copies. Includes publishers catalogue bound in at the rear. £195.00

[000918] Le Gallienne, Richard. Prose Fancies. London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Limited edition of 100 large paper copies. Includes some edge wear, two book plates and minor library stamps. A rare item from the decadent 1890s. £195.00

[001214] Whittington-Egan, Richard & Smerdon, Geoffrey. The Quest of the Golden Boy: The Life and Letters of Richard Le Gallienne. London: The Unicorn Press, 1960. First Complete Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Includes bibliography, notes and index. £25.00

MACHEN
[026970] Machen, Arthur. Eleusinia & Beneath the Barley. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1988. First Thus. 8vo. Booklet. As New ISBN: 0940884003. Scarce reissue of two of Machen's rarest early works. £15.00

[026969] Machen, Arthur. Guinevere and Lancelot & Others: Being a Selection of Essays and Stories Too Long Out-of-print. ill. Stephen Fabian. Newport News, VA: The Purple Mouth Press, 1986. First Thus. 4to. Booklet. As New ISBN: 096033002X. Edited by Michael T. Shoemaker and Cuyler W. Brooks. £25.00

[023365] Machen, Arthur. A Few Letters From Arthur Machen: Letters to Munson Havens. Upton: The Aylesford Press, 1993. First Edition. 12mo.Paperback in Wraps. As New / As New. ISBN: 1869955293. Introduction by Roger Dobson. Hand numbered limited edition 155/250. £25.00

[004191] Machen, Arthur. A Few Letters From Arthur Machen: Letters to Munson Havens. Upton: The Aylesford Press, 1993. First Edition. 12mo.Quarter Linson. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 1869955307. Introduction by Roger Dobson. Hand numbered limited edition 40/83 copies signed by Janet Machen. £30.00

[004190] Machen, Arthur. The Good Machen: A Centenary Tribute Recalled. Upton: The Aylesford Press, 1993. First Edition. 12mo.Quarter Buckram. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 1869955323. Hand numbered limited edition of 50/67 copies signed by Brocard Sewell. Includes contributions from John Gawsworth, Richard Middleton, M.P. Shiel, E.H. Visiak and others. A celebratory reprint of the centenary tribute paid to Machen in 1963 under the imprint of John Gawsworth's Twyn Barlwm Press. Originally published as a set of booklets in limited editions of 40 copies, it included, then printed for the first time, Machen's 'Ballad of the Armed Man'. Now, thirty years later, the tributes are reprinted in one volume, with a Foreword by Brocard Sewell, one of the few people who personally remember Machen. £30.00

[017814] Machen, Arthur (Selected and edited by Roger Dobson, Godfrey Brangham and R.A. Gilbert). Selected Letters: The Private Writings of the Master of the Macabre. Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0850307821. This first major assembly of Machen's annotated correspondence spans sixty years and reveals the man behind the masterpieces. The sequences of letters to his friends A. E. Waite, Colin Summerford, and John Gawsworth, and to fellow authors and publishers, chart his progress from literary man of the fin de siècle, initiate in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, actor with Frank Benson's Shakespeare company, Fleet Street journalist, to his final years as a frail but indomitable sage living in quiet retirement in Buckinghamshire. With a foreword by the author's son, Hilary. Selected and edited by Roger Dobson, Godfrey Brangham and R.A. Gilbert. LAST FEW COPIES. £9.99

[003709] Purefoy Machen. Where Memory Slept: Memoirs. Caerleon: Green Round Press, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 0951577417. Autobiography of Arthur Machen's wife. Edited with an introduction by Godfrey Brangham. £9.99

MIDDLETON
[001316] Savage, Henry. Richard Middleton: The Man and His Work. London: Cecil Palmer, 1922. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Biography of the English poet. Minor markings to boards. £30.00

MOORE
[023428] Morgan, Charles. Epitaph on George Moore. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £10.00

MORRIS

[026071] Tompkins, J.M.S.. William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry. London: Cecil Woolf, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0900821841. £19.95

NIETZSCHE

[025827] Kee, Alistair. Nietzsche Against the Crucified. London: SCM Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0334027837. Nietzsche presents us with his philosophy for life, a philosophical faith to which he commits himself with passion. With the decadent values of the Christian religion set aside, he can describe Jesus of Nazareth as the noblest human being.' Nieztsche's philosophy from a uniquely christian perspective. Includes notes, bibliography and index. £8.95

[022371] Thatcher, David S.. Nietzsche in England 1890-1914: The Growth of a Reputation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / Very Good. ISBN: 0802052347. This volume makes a substantial contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of influences on some major English writers including John Davidson, Havelock Ellis, A.R. Orage, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Symons, George Moore, James Joyce and others. Its successful re-creation of the intellectual atmosphere of an era will interest students of literature, philosophy, and cultural history. An extensive bibliography of Nietzsche scholarship is included, containing some previously unrecorded items. Scarce. £65.00

OCCULT
[001337] Saurat, Denis. Literature and Occult Tradition: Studies in Philosophical Poetry. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Includes a study of the work of Edmund Spenser, Madame Blavatsky, The Cabala and Folklore, India, the Hermes Trismegistus. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bolton. £70.00

PATER
[023411] Pater, Walter. Imaginary Portraits. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. Reprint. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Contents: A Prince of Court Painters, Denys L'Auxerrois, Sebastian van Storck, Duke Carl of Rosenmold. Rebound in strong library binding. £10.00

[023413] Pater, Walter. Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas Volume I and Volume II. London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. Third Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Two volumes. completely revised. Rebound in strong library binding. £35.00

[023412] Pater, Walter. Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays. London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. Third Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Essays on literature, art, and persons, such as Prosper Merimee, Raphael, Pascal, Art Notes in North Italy, Vezelay, Apollo in Picardy, Daiphaneite and more. Rebound in strong library binding. £15.00

[018335] Seiler, Robert M. (Editor). The Book Beautiful: Walter Pater and the House of Macmillan. London: The Athlone Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0485115352. These letters comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career recording in detail the relationship between this Victorian man of letters and his publishers, Macmillan and Co. £9.95

PATMORE
[021967] Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. London: Cassell & Company, 1898. First Edition. 16mo.. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00

POE
[000195] Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven & Other Poems. ill. Jeff Hill. Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, 1970. First Thus. 12mo.Pictorial Boards. As New / As New. Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's finest macabre poems. £2.95

[010047] Poe, Edgar Allan. The Gold Bug & Other Tales. ill. A.D. McCormick. London: Downey & Co., First Thus. 8vo. Decorative Cloth. Good / No Jacket as Issued. Collection of Poe's finest macabre stories. c.1890s. £90.00

[018252] Pope-Hennessy, Una. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849: A Critical Biography. Englewood Cliffs: Macmillan and Co., 1934. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. Rare. £75.00

[005508] Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never Ending Remembrance. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. First U.K. Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0297813854. Biography of Edgar Allan Poe. £8.95

POETRY

[023423] Megroz, R.L.. Modern English Poetry 1882-1932. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd., 1933. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £30.00

PORNOGRAPHY

[009766] Hyde, H. Montgomery. A History of Pornography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First US Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. £20.00

[023988] Sigel, Lisa Z.. Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815-1914. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 0813530024. A historical account of the production, distribution, and consumption of pornography in Great Britain from the early 19th century to the turn of the 20th century. It examines how pornography changed over time as a cultural and symbolic object in British society, and asks: What was considered pornographic? Who looked at pornography and read it? What sorts of messages did this medium transmit to both men and women? What was its thematic content, who controlled it, and how did these messages affect sexual and social dynamics? In contrast to recent ahistorical feminist assertions that pornography necessarily teaches men how to oppress women, this work views the use of pornography through the lens of historical and social change. In a careful analysis, it shows the cultural complexities of the medium and links Victorian pornography to other areas such as language, science, consumerism, and politics. Illustrated along with notes, bibliography and index. The best book on the subject since "The Other Victorians" by Stephen Marcus. £8.99

ROBERTSON

[022222] Robertson, W. Graham. Time Was: The Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson. London: Quartet, 1981. First Thus. 8vo. Paperback. Fine ISBN: 0704333589. Reminiscences of the author includes many of the celebrities poets, actors, writers of the 1890s including Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Bernhardt, Wilde, Ellen Terry, Whistler, Henry Irving and Binkie Beaumont. An unread copy. £20.00

ROTHENSTEIN
[014882] Rothenstein, Sir William. Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein, 1900-1922. New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. Recollections by one the era's most important artists. Numerous illustrations by the artist, including portraits of Conrad, Rodin and many others, plus additional illustrations. £25.00

SALTUS
[003070] Saltus, Marie. Edgar Saltus: The Man. Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Biography of Edgar Saltus by his wife. The author of numerous histories and novels, Saltus had a penchant for unrestrained pessimism, radical style, and vicious wit, which earned him the friendship of contemporary writers such as Oscar Wilde. As a writer, one can draw various comparisons to Saltus: he possessed some of the decadent florid imagery of Huysmans, the macabre sensibility of Bierce and Poe, the stylistic perfection of Flaubert, and the piercing wit of Wilde. Yet, Saltus was original enough as a talent to make any single comparison inadequate. £28.00

SUMMERS
[026976] Summers, Montague. The Galanty Show: An Autobiography. London: Cecil Woolf, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / As New. ISBN: 0900821388. Introduction by Brocard Sewell. £35.00

[008784] Summers, Montague. Letters to an Editor. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback in Wraps. Private Press. As New / As New. ISBN: 0948189088. Collection of letters from Montague Summers to C.K. Ogden with an introduction and notes by D.E. Wickham. Hand numbered limited edition of 145 copies in original burgundy wrappers, printed paper labels. (Anderson 116) £20.00

SYMBOLISM
[025788] Kosinski, Dorothy M.. Orpheus in Nineteenth-Century Symbolism. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0835718689. Academic study of the portrayal of the Orpheus myth in all art forms during the 19th century. Profusely illustrated with full bibliography and index. Part of the series Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde, No 61. £35.00

SYMONS
[022182] Karl Beckson and John M. Munro (Editors) (Symons, Arthur). Arthur Symons: Selected Letters 1880-1935. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 087745213X. In this volume of selected letters of the symbolist critic and poet, Arthur Symons (1865-1945), the editors have included the best of Symons' extensive correspondence with such figures as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Paul Verlaine, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Augustus John and many others. The letters reveal the world of literary London in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of the development of early Modernism and of Symons' sudden mental breakdown in 1908. Supplementary material is included, such as a long previously unpublished letter on Symons by Havelock Ellis, his friend for over forty years. Edited by Karl Beckson and John M. Munro. Includes a select bibliography of Symons' works. £14.95

[017641] Markert, Lawrence W.. Arthur Symons: Critic of the Seven Arts. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 083571845X. Biographical study of the pivotal 1890s poet, editor, literary, theatre and music critic Arthur Symons (1865-1945). He became a friend of Yeats, G. A. Moore, and H. Ellis, and attended the Rhymers' Club; his early volumes of poetry (Days and Nights, 1889; London Nights, 1895) were very much of their time in their celebration of decadence and the demi-monde of stage, street, and Café Royal. He was editor of the Savoy, 1896, and published Beardsley, Conrad, Dowson, L. P. Johnson, etc. His The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) was an attempt to introduce French Symbolism to England, and he wrote critical studies of Blake, Baudelaire, Pater, Wilde, and others. He is largely remembered as a leading spirit in the Decadent movement, a defender of "art for art's sake". Includes a full bibliography. (Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism, No 25) £15.00

[019584] Symons, Arthur. Dramatis Personae. London: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1923. First US Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Collection of literary essays. Sine faded. £25.00

[002120] Symons, Arthur. Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory. London: Constable & Company, 1909. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Spine faded. £25.00

THOMPSON
[023406] Thompson, Francis. The Poems of Francis Thompson. London: Hollis & Carter, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Poet and opium addict. Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00

[023407] Megroz, R.L.. Francis Thompson: The Poet of Earth in Heaven: A Study in Poetic Mysticism and the Evolution of Love-Poetry. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Poet and opium addict. Contents: 1. The making of the reed; 2. The critic and the prose writer; 3. The artist; 4. His imaginative type; 5. Coventry Patmore; 6. Crashaw; 7. Shelley; 8. Donne and St Augustine; 9. The triumph of death; 10. Nature poetry; 11. Science and sanctity; 12. Poetry and childhood; 13. Bedouin and Spanish romance; 14. The spiritualizing of love. Appendices: "The Mistress of Vision": A commentary by Rev John O'Connor; A letter from Robert Browning; Bibliography; Some of the poet's second thoughts (some of Thompson's revisions). Rebound in strong library binding. £25.00

THOMSON
[023404] Thomson, James. Complete Poetical works of James Thomson. London: Oxford University Press, 1908. First Edition. 12mo.Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Edited with notes by J. Logie Robertson. Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00

[023405] Thomson, John. The Life of Francis Thompson. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1923. Third Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Poet and opium addict. Rebound in strong library binding. £20.00

WELLS

[017481] Wells, H.G. Smith, David C. (Editor). The Correspondence of H.G. Wells. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / No Jacket as Issued. ISBN: 1851961739. 4 volume set. This is the first major scholarly collection of the correspondence of H.G. Wells, one of the most prolific and significant writers of the twentieth century. The collection draws on over fifty archives and libraries throughout the world, many of them newly discovered, including the recently deposited papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The edition contains 2,800 letters, fewer than 100 of which have previously been published. Letters currently available in other scholarly editions (such as those to George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett) have been deliberately excluded, except where their inclusion seemed essential. A few of the letters are business letters to publishers, agents and secretaries, but the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A J Balfour to persons such as 'Mark Benney', who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is rich correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lillah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. A letter from Moura Budberg, with whom Wells had a long-standing passionate affair, which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how the great advocate of birth control was himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed a lively correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his most powerful letters on the controversies of free love, socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat) and J.C. Smuts. Volume 1 1880-1903, Volume 2 1904-1918, Volume 3 1919-1934, Volume 4 1935-1946. £135.00

[022626] Parrinder, Patrick. Shadows of the Future: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Prophecy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0853234396. H.G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase "the shape of things to come" described his life's work as one of "critical anticipation". This work identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. The book both unravels the complex layers of meaning in "The Time Machine" and shows how, throughout his life, Wells sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. He has also been described as Europe's first futurologist. In this work Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championship of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. £9.99

WHISTLER
[021794] Sutton, Denys. Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler. London: Country Life Ltd., 1963. First Edition. 4to. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. £20.00

WILDE

[006187] Laupts, Dr.. Perversion & Perversité Sexuelles: Une enquête médicale sur l'inversion. Notes et documents. Le roman d'un inverti-né. Le procès Wilde. La guérison et la prophylaxie de l'Inversion. Paris: Georges Carré, 1896. First Edition. 8vo. Full-Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. One of the most rare and important works on homosexuality. Includes 85 pages on Oscar Wilde. Preface by Emile Zola. Rebound with marbled end papers, some minor edge wear. French text. £745.00
[007423] O'Sullivan, Vincent. Aspects of Wilde. London: Constable & Co., 1938. Second Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. With an Opinion by Bernard Shaw. Rare in any edition, Some chipping to clipped d/j. £195.00

[009913] O'Sullivan, Vincent. Aspects of Wilde. London: Constable & Co., 1936. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / No Jacket. Rare. £295.00

[015748] Pearson, Hesketh. The Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen & Co., 1946. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. £15.00

[008849] Ross, Alan (Editor). The London Magazine Volume 1 No. 2 May 1961. London: The Shenval Press, 1963. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Fine Includes poems by Hugo Williams, and features on Oscar Wilde and Lotte Lenya £20.00

[023092] Sinfield, Alan. The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. First US Paperback Edition. 8vo. Paperback in Wraps. As New / As New. ISBN: 0231101678. Beginning with the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895, the book ends here, in our time, having circuited back through the history of sexuality in Britain since the 16th century in order to reach the 1990s. In this nuanced account of the cultural limits of the 'held' ideas about gay identity, Oscar Wilde stand-in as the alter-icon of a purported cultural transgression, as progenitor of imaginative new possibilities. Includes notes and index. £19.95

[023858] Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Creation Books, 2000. First Thus. 8vo. Paperback. As New ISBN: 1840680172. In his introduction, Jeremy Reed contests that this original Lippincott’s edition is both radically different from the later version and far more homoerotic. Arguably, it is this version which remains closest to Wilde’s initial preconception. £8.95

[022733] Wilde, Oscar. The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde. London: Alvin Redman, 1962. Third Printing. 8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Very Good. Introduction by Vyvyan Holland. £15.00

[010291] Wilde, Oscar. Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal. London: Icon Books, 1966. First Thus. 12mo. Paperback. Fair Introduction by H. Montgomery Hyde. Reissue of the first clandestine edition printed in Paris in 1893. Top corner clipped from cover, some creasing. £12.00

[008022] Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man Under Socialism. New York: Oriole Chapbooks, 1977. First Thus. 8vo. Booklet. Very Good ISBN: 0882110128. £25.00

YEATS

[015378] Murphy-Gibb, Dwina / DuQuesne, Terence / Morgan, Chris (Editors). Celtic Dawn 3 1989. Oxford: Prebendal Press, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Magazine. As New Short lived literary magazine based around W.B. Yeats and his circle along with new translations of mystical poetry from around the world. Perfect bound. £20.00

[015379] Murphy-Gibb, Dwina / DuQuesne, Terence / Morgan, Chris (Editors). Celtic Dawn 1 Spring 1988. Oxford: Prebendal Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Magazine. As New Short lived literary magazine based around W.B. Yeats and his circle along with new translations of mystical poetry from around the world. Perfect bound. £15.00 [018626] MacNeice, Louis. The Poetry of W.B. Yeats. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £25.00

[012668] Malins, Edward. A Preface to Yeats. London: Longman, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. ISBN: 0582351057. A series of scholarly and critical studies on William Butler Yeats. £15.00

[023424] Reid, Forrest. W.B. Yeats: A Critical Study. London: Martin Secker, 1915. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. A series of scholarly and critical studies on William Butler Yeats. £195.00

[014038] Ure, Peter [Yeats,W.B.]. Yeats and Anglo-Irish Literature: Critical Essays. London: Liverpool University Press, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. As New / As New. ISBN: 0853233225. Mainly on Yeats, but also on George Moore, Joseph Conrad and George Bernard Shaw. With a memoir of Peter Ure by Frank Kermode. Edited by C.J. Rawson. £14.95

[021307] Yeats, W.B.. The Celtic Twilight. London: A.H. Bullen, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / No Jacket. Rebound in strong library binding. £65.00

ANTHOLOGIES

[001108] Aldington, Richard (editor). The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes. London: William Heinemann, 1950. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Poor. £15.00

[010017] Sewell, Brocard (Editor). The Aylesford Review Vol VIII Number 1 Summer 1966. Maidstone: St. Alberts Press, 1966. First Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Very Good Includes features on Montague Summers, W.B. Yeats, Eric Stenbock and others. Unread, though some foxing to front cover. £25.00

[001106] Stanford, Derek (editor). Poets of the 90's: A Biographical Anthology. London: Richards Press, 1965. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth. Ex-Library. Good / Good. Anthology with biographical notes on the authors. Includes Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, John Gray, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Symons, John Davidson, Lionel Johnson, Aubrey Beardsley and others. £18.00

[001104] Stanford, Derek (editor). Writing of the Nineties from Wilde to Beerbohm. London: J.M. Dent, 1971. First Thus. 8vo. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Very Good / Good. ISBN: 0460007734. £15.00

[013708] Wright, Stephen (Editor). Different: An Anthology of Homosexual Short Stories. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. First Edition. 16mo.. Paperback. Signed by Author. Fine ISBN: 0553083821. Anthology of stories about homosexuality including 'The Crooked Man' by 'Twilight Zone' writer Charles Beaumont; also stories by Sherwood Anderson, Phil Andros, James Blake, Alfred Chester, Lonnie Coleman, Paul Goodman, Joseph Hansen, Christopher Isherwood, Henry James, Stanley Kauffmann, D.H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning, Francis Marsh, Michael Mason, Guy de Maupassant, Wilma Shore, Howard Overing Sturgis, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde. An unread copy signed by the author to Clarence Hastings. £15.00

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 CYRANO de BERGERAC Roundabout Theatre production Frank Langella. Art by Scott McKowen 14x22" Poster Paper $25 1 only;

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 rhotograph 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.

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.

IV. Bookshops

We 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: 431 items when we looked for this issue. 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:

Described as ‘a mounted albumen photo taken in Belmont California (possibly at Ralston Hall, the home of Senator William Sharon as another photo I have listed this week features him). The man in the centre is the Marquis of Queensberry, who introduced the Queensberry Rules in boxing and also the man who initiated the downfall of Oscar Wilde, after his objections to his son's involvement with Wilde. The man immediately to the left is Will Tevis who I believe is either the son or grandson of Lloyd Tevis the mining investor and at one time President of Wells Fargo. The woman is Lady Hesketh or Lady Fermor-Hesketh, Senator Sharon's daughter Florence Emily Sharon, who married Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh. (Many of her possessions were auctioned at Sotheby's in 2005).

The photo was from a private collection and is very possibly unpublished. It is 9 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches (241x196mm) and has lost a little contrast. It is mounted onto card.’

Described as a delightful edition in small format (Facchi, Milan, 1932).

The Sphinx illustrated by Alastair, with twelve pochoir plates, ten with lettered tissue guards, the other two appear at front and rear end papers. 12", circa 1920.

Finally, we include 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 never as he was, is available from http://howcool.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=24401

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