Wilde Oscar Jim Dine (4 results)

DINE, Jim (illustrator). The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press, 1968. Full Description: WILDE, Oscar. DINE, Jim, [artist]. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press, [1968]. Limited edition signed and numbered by the artist, Jim Dine on the limitation page in green ink. This being number 11 of 200 in Edition B. Folio (17 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 440 x 310 mm). Complete with frontispiece and twelve lithographs in color, with a set of an additional 4 loose lithographs issued in a portfolio, each annotated "Edition B" on the reverse and numbered 11/200 and signed by the artist in pencil on the front lower margin. Original full green velvet boards. Front board lettered in silver. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. With additional black cloth portfolio. Cloth portfolio with a small split at top of hinge. A fine copy. "A working script for the stage from the novel by Oscar Wilde with original images and notes on the text by Jim Dine" (From the title page). "The original colour lithographs, etchings and text pages comprising this book were prepared on zinc and aluminum plates by the artist at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, ini February, 1968; and subsequently printed on Velin Arches at the Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc in Paris." (Colophon) HBS 69253. $4,500.

Dine, Jim. Edition C, with six loose lithographs, signed duplicates of those bound in the book, and four signed etchings, this copy 100 of 100, lacking two of the prints. Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio (18.1 x 13 inches). Three editions of this work were published with an extra suite of prints: A) Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs, bound in red velvet with the title in silver, with six signed lithographs, duplicates of the plates in the text, signed by Dine B) Edition of 200 plus 25 artists' proofs, bound in green velvet with the title in silver, with four etchings signed by Dine C) Edition of 100 plus 15 artists' proofs, in a snakeskin-patterned leather binding, stamped in black, with a matching box with "heart built up on the cover" (also signed by Dine) containing all of the prints of the two other editions, 10 total, signed by Dine. THIS COPY LACKING TWO PRINTS: "Sybil in her Dressing Room" and "Basil in Black Leather Suit" Jim Dine worked on a stage version of Wilde's novel with English director Robert Kidd for the Bath Academie of Art at Corsham, moving the setting to London during the 1967 Summer of Love. The play was never finished, as the scheduled lead actor, James Fox, objected to Dine's "obscene" costumes, derailing the whole production. Petersburg Press stepped in and offered to print Dine's drafts for the adapation. Mikro 47 Snakeskin print leather binding near fine on text volume and portfolio volume, matching box and heart cover with some fading, otherwise near fine Illustrated by Jim Dine. 2 vols. Folio (18.1 x 13 inches) Edition C, with six loose lithographs, signed duplicates of those bound in the book, and four signed etchings, this copy 100 of 100, lacking two of the prints.

London, Petersburg Press 1968. Folio. Edition A. Signed by Jim Dine. No 174 of 200 copies. 12 lithograps in colour. Lacking the six loose lithographs that were issued with this edition. Original red-velvet covered boards with title in silver. Black linen slipcase. .

Condition: Good. Folio. 31 x 44 cm.Original red velvet binding with silver stamping in a black slipcase. The spine slightly lightened and the slipcase in 2 shades of black, One of 200 signed and numbered copies from the A. Edition without the extra six lithographs called for.The 12 original lithographsj include the following from the 1970 Galerie Mikro catalogue: 47a, b, c, d, e, g plus 5 not in Mikro.Printed by Atelier Desjobert, and Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris.