1. Wilde, Oscar.

Collection of Four Rare Presentation Review Copies of Publisher Methuen & Co., with publisher’s Ephemera (presentation-slip regarding the wish for Review and publication-date, as well as a booklet “The Library of Devotion”) / The collection includes: 1. Intentions (4th Edition, 1909) / 2. Lady Windermere’s Fan – A Play about a Good Woman (3rd Edition, 1909) / 3. An Ideal Husband (3rd Edition, 1909) / 4. The Importance of Being Earnest – A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (3rd Edition, 1909).

4 Volumes. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. Pagination: “Intentions”: 263 pages / “Lady Windermere’s Fan”: 157 pages / “An Ideal Husband”: 246 pages / “The Importance of Being Earnest”: 181 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear and mild staining to bindings only.

2. Wolpers, Theodor (Hrsg.).

Gelebte Literatur in der Literatur. Studien zu Erscheinungsformen und Geschichte eines literarischen Motivs. Bericht über Kolloquien der Kommission für literaturwissenschaftliche Motiv- und Themenforschung 1983-1985.

Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. 8vo. 364 Seiten. Softcover / Broschiert. Eine Kante stärker bestossen. Sonst sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen – Philologisch-historische Klasse, III/152).

3. Wilde, Oscar.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3.3. [Oscar Wilde].

Later Edition of the First Edition [7th printing of June 1899]. London, Leonard Smithers, 1899. 8°. 31 pages. Original Hardcover (Quarter vellum with mustard boards). Unusually excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Interior also in marvellous condition. Exlibris / Bookplate of film critic Leonie Graetz (Exlibris was made by the artist Hermann Westphal) to the front pastedown. Very Rare in this condition !

4. Wilde, Oscar.

The Duchess of Padua – A Play.

Second Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. VI, [3], 183 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

5. [Mac Liammoír, Micheál] Wilde, Oscar. [1899-1978].

The importance of Being Oscar – An Entertainment on the Life and Works of Oscar Wilde. Micheál Mac Liammoír in The Edwards-Mac Liammoír Dublin-Gate Theater Production.

Original, Vintage Vinyl in original sleeve – SIGNED and inscribed by Micheál Mac Liammoír on the Cover. USA, Columbia Masterworks, c. 1971. OL 5690 / Very good- condition of Sleeve and Record with signs signs of wear to the sleeve / Sleeve VG –(with some bumping) / Record NM – (Near Mint minus). Rare signed and inscribed record by Micheál Mac Liammoír on the Cover.

6. Ellman, Richard.

The Use of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Six in the Ben Belitt Lectureship series.

Bennington, VT, Bennington College, 1984. 8°. 25 Pages. Stapled Wrappers (softcover). Excellent condition. “The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in memory of William Troy”.