Eckardt Wolf Sander Gilman Edward (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dj has very light edgewear. Lightly bumped corners. Light wear.

Hardcover. First Edition. 285pp. Owner's name blacked out on front fly-leaf, else VG, text clean and tight / VG+ dj.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. With chapters on: Art and life, Call of the stage, Readers and writers, London's growth, and London's shame, The lower classes, Religion, spirits, hosanna, Juliets of a night etc. 285 pages with a great many b&w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edtion. Oversize 7 3/8" x 10 1/2" design. Black full cloth boards, blindstamped cover titles, gilt spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. Lt. blue endpapers. Provides a portrait of the city in which Oscar Wilde became famous and which he celebrated in so many of his plays and books. The text is illustrated with vibrant, historical photographs and drawings giving an authoritative account of a writer in the London he loved. 285 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

black 1/2 cloth hardcover ~ 2º (4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 8"x11"). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. couple of small tears at spine top, spine bottom chipped, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. high quality book club edition. decorative title pg. xii+285p. b&w photos & illustrations throughout. notes. selected readings. index. biography. english history. english literature. poetry. theatrics. true crime. NOTE: book contains some explicit photographs inappropriate for children. "I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious," predicted Oscar Wilde. He may not have known what he would do when he left Oxford University in 1887, but he was sure that, whatever it was, he would do it in style and in the city of London. Now, authors Von Eckardt, Gilman, and Chamberlin offer a vivid portrait of the city that Oscar Wilde made and that made Oscar Wilde. Through evocative words and pictures, we discover the city of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India~the capital of the empire that bravely bore "the white man's burden" but could not bear its own industrial grime and drudgery. Here is London in all its fascinating contradictions: the gas~lit luxury and back~street intrigue, drawing room wit and poorhouse humor, teenage prostitutes and ladies who profess to be offended by the sight of bare piano limbs. This is a city of etiquette books and feminism, intellectual coteries and bawdy public houses. It is the London of decadence and idealistic reform, of the Aesthetic movement which pitted Beauty against the machine, of great theaters such as Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy, and of such wonderful writers as the Brownings, Tennyson, Barrie, Shaw, and Huxley. With its narrative infused with quotes from luminaries of the day, and accompanied by a gallery of rare photographs, paintings, sketches, cartoons, and posters, OSCAR WILDE'S LONDON reveals an epoch as eccentric, notorious, and brilliant as Wilde himself. It is an authoritative and captivating testament to a time and artist that dared to demand something new, and forever changed the face of a city, and of the world.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. xii, 285 pp., illus.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. xii 285p large format hardback, fresh dustjacket, clean and tight copy, no names or stamps, excellent condition, first edition Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st UK edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. . 10.5ins x 7.5ins, xii, [ii], 285pp. Large number of illustrations within the text. VG / VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st UK edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. . 10.5ins x 7.5ins, xii, [ii], 285pp. Large number of illustrations within the text. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. VG / VG.

Anchor Press, New York 1987. xii, 285 pp. Hardback with d/w. 26,5x19 cm. Illustrated. Good condition.

In-8,legatura editoriale in tutta tela con sovracoperta,pp.285 con illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo.