7711. Wilcox, Joe.

White Winds – America’s Most Tragic Mountaineering Expedition.

Second printing of the First Edition. Los Alamitos, Hwong Publishing Company, 1981. Octavo. X, 498 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7712. Wild, Ian.

Intercourse with Cacti.

First Edition. Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2003. Octavo. 68 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7713. Wild, Ian.

Intercourse with Cacti. A Collection of Poetry.

First edition. Cork, Bradshaw Books, 2003. 13,5 cm x 20,5 cm. 68 pages. Original Softover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Signed / Inscribed – With the author’s dedication to Kruger on half title.

7714. Wilde, Edy de (Editor).

La Grande Parade. Hoogtepunten van de schilderkunst na 1940.

Trilingual: Nederlands / English / Français Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1984. 27,5 cm x 21 cm. 251 pagina’s / pages. Met talrijke illustraties in kleur / With many colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Afkomstig uit de bibliotheek van de modeontwerper Frans Molenaar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage / From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7715. 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.

7716. Wilde, Oscar.

Poems – With the Ballad of Reading Gaol.

London, Methuen & Co., 1945. Small Octavo. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7717. 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 cloth with mustard boards). Unusually excellent condition of the binding but with some stronger signs of occasional foxing to the text and the edges (several pages are entirely without foxing) with only very minor signs of external wear. Bookplate of film-critic Leonie Graetz (Exlibris was made by the artist Hermann Westphal) to the front pastedown.

7718. 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.

7719. Wilder, Thornton.

The Ides of March – A Novel [including a vintage photograph of Thornton Wilder during his visit to Frankfurt, Germany in the year 1957 when he accepted the german literary Prize “Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels”].

First Edition (Letters M – W). New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948. Octavo. VIII, 246 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket price-clipped and slightly frayed only. Small sticker of former owner on pastedown: “Mrs. Raymond Ziesmer – Appletree Farm, Julian, California”. The excellent photograph measures 17,5 cm x 23,5 cm. The original and rare press-photograph is titled on the back and the story of the picture is told: (Translates:) “….Thornton Wilder arrived on the 11th of September 1957 on the airport in Frankfurt…On August 6th 1957 he received the “Peace-price of the german Bookseller Association in the Paulskirche [Frankfurt]”.

7720. Wildhaber, Robert / Uffer, Leza. [Hrsg].

Schweizer Volksmärchen.

Erste Auflage. Düsseldorf / Köln, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1971. 11.5 x 19cm. pages. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur einigen Annotationen im Text. Namenseintrag im Vorsatz. [Die Märchen der Weltliteratur].