Picture Dorian Gray by Wilde Oscar, Signed (9 results)

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Book Good. No dust jacket. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front pastedown. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. Barbara G. Mertz's copy with her signature on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. (Irish literature, classic literature, gothic, horror, philosophical fiction, decadent literature, LGBT literature, Victorian literature).

4to (185 x 218 mm). (4 blank), VII, (1 blank), 334, (4 blank) pp. Ca. 1930s brown master binding signed by Edith Holm of Munich, with blind rules to covers and leading edges; title blind-stamped to spine. Top edge trimmed, deckle edges on fore-edge and bottom. First edition of Wilde's only novel, signed limited issue: number 40 of 250 large-paper copies of the de luxe issue on Van Gelder handmade laid paper, signed "Oscar Wilde". The title-page and half title were designed by Charles Ricketts, who provided illustrations and cover designs for many of Wilde's works. This luxury issue is the corrected second issue, published about two months after he first authorized trade edition produced in April 1891. - Front hinge lightly rubbed; some dust-staining to spine. Internally an almost immaculate copy with very minor browning and/or staining mostly confined to the edges and corners of the blank leaves at the beginning and end of the volume. - German private collection. - Mason 329. Ellman 314.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Deep forest green morocco, gilt decorated spine and gilt-ruled boards; marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, binding near fine. No fading or browning to the spine. The color is uniform and the morocco boards are completely fresh and flexible. Contents near fine, the entire text with only a few faint spots, no paper tears or folds at all. Small 4to, one of 250 signed copies on watermarked Van Gelder laid handmade paper. Advertised in The Athenaeum on 16 May 1891 as the Edition de Luxe, and just so. A real highspot of the era. Previously sold at Christie's London, April 19, 1991. A marvelous copy of a great book. Price is net to all.

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. .

First edition in book form, signed limited issue, number 228 of 250 copies signed by the author, in an exquisite exhibition binding by Zaehnsdorf. This copy is from the library of the American suffragist and writer Katherine Mackay of Harbour Hill, with her armorial bookplate and ownership inscription dated "April 1902". Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay (18781930) began her suffrage activities in 1908, when she founded the Equal Franchise Society as an organization advocating women's suffrage in the United States. She was also the first woman on the Roslyn School Board, and during her term contributed to removing corporal punishment from the public schools in Roslyn. In 1898, Katherine married the telecommunications magnate Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and the couple resided at Harbour Hill, a spectacular mansion in Roslyn, New York designed by the famous architect Stanford White. A fervent individualist, Wilde was always sensitive to women's cultural and social causes. He actively supported women's advances in the arts and fostered their roles and contributions in the public sphere; throughout the 1880s and 1890s, he campaigned for women's rational dress reform. Appointed editor of the Woman's World in 1887, he transformed a fashion magazine into "the recognised organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art, and modern life" (Complete Letters, p. 297), notably commissioning articles on the campaign for women's suffrage. This copy has Zaehnsdorf's blind exhibition stamp to the rear pastedown; rather than signifying that it was exhibited, this means that it was bound to "exhibition standard", that is, applying the highest quality standards in the choice of materials, and execution of the forwarding and finishing. The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July 1890, and was substantially revised for book publication, with six new chapters. The misprinted "nd" for "and" on line 23 of p. 208 in the trade issue is corrected here. Mason 329. Merlin Holland & Rupert Hart-Davis, eds., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, 2000. Small quarto (213 x 175 mm). Contemporary brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Charles Scribner's Sons, with Zaehnsdorf's blind exhibition stamp to rear pastedown, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine with gilt-dotted raised bands, spine compartments and sides with gilt border enclosing floral decoration, board edges and turn-ins elaborately tooled in gilt, orange silk endpapers, edges untrimmed. Couple of minor scuffs to covers, joints and corners professionally repaired, short tears to last leaf neatly repaired, internally bright and clean. A very good, generously margined copy, presenting handsomely in the binding.

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.

New Unopened copy. Half Bound in burgundy Nigerian Goatskin in Curved Edge Slipcase with Design by Gregory Manchess. Illustrated throughout and Signed by Manchess. Number 154 of Edition Limited to 250 copies, stunning production printed on 150g Zerkall Smooth Mould Paper by Hand and Eye Letterpress.