The Sphinx - Pamphlet

London: The Bodley Head New York: John Lane Company: John Lane, 1920. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALASTAIR [i.e. VOIGT Hans H.] 1887-1969. Superb illustrations! First limited edition, in gilt printed cream buckram, gilt title to spine, light edge finger marking. Internally, half title, frontis, [1], 36… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane,, 1894. A fine copy First edition, one of 200 unnumbered copies. Wilde's poem, together with Charles Ricketts's art nouveau illustrations, was described by W. E. Henley, Wilde's harshest critic, as "about as fin-de-Siecle a business as you ever saw" (Frankel, p. 155). Wilde first met Ricketts in 1889, and in the two years… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. [44]p (including blanks), original gilt decorated vellum designed by Charles Ricketts, with his monogram to bottom left hand corner of upper cover and the monogram of the binders (Leighton, Son and Hodge) to the bottom left hand corner of the lower cover. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, vellum generally quite bright and clean.… Read more about this item

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1894. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo (4 1/2" x 7 3/8"), stiff pictorial wraps, 22 pages; half title with date of 1894; original glassine dust jacket and original box, with printed label: "The Sphinx. Wilde Nippon Booklets." Early edition, printed in America. Pictorial front wrapper, with color… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed, 1901. Limited numbered pirated edn (30 of 300). Tall 8vo (10 x 8 ins). Bound in half maroon crushed levant morocco by C. Walters, top edge gilt (outer joints rubbed - otherwise bright VG). Pp. 32 printed on Japan vellum, with original wrapper bound-in at rear, versos alternately illustrated with a head of a sphinx or… Read more about this item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1920. Illustrated and decorated by Alastair. Pp. 36, frontispiece and 10 plates with lettered tissue guards, plus 2 extra folding plates functioning as free endpapers, 13 large decorative initials, all printed in teal & black, as is the title page; med. 4to; white buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the upper board decorated in… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894, 1894. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 7", illustrated by Charles Rickets, limited to 200 copies, printed in 3 colors, bound in original art nouveau gilt decorated vellum, covers straight (often found quite bowed), inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine,… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. RICKETTS, Charles. . The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. Full Description: WILDE, Oscar. The Sphinx. With decorations by Charles Ricketts. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the… Read more about this item

First edition limited to 1000 copies that cannot be reprinted. 9 beautiful tissue protected plates by Alastair. A very good copy in decorated boards with some slight soiling to cover. Attached to the inside cover is an original water color signed D.H. Pinder

London & New York: John Lane Company, 1910. [46]pp [bookplate; spine backing completely chipped away exposing gauze; some discolorations to boards]. Illustrated Boards. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

John Lane, Bodley Head, London. 1918. Small 8vo, 46pp plus two pages of advertisments. A good hardback copy bound in pale green papered boards with illustrated front cover. Boards lightly bowed with wear to extremities and slight discolouration and creasing to spine. Tick mark in black pen to top corner of cover. Foxing to fore edges and end… Read more about this item

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane: At the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. First English Edition (Mason 361). Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (44 pages. One of 200 copies produced in England at the Ballantyne Press). One of Wilde’s great works and one of English literature’s great feats of book design, executed by Wilde’s friend, the artist and… Read more about this item

John Lane, London, 1920. Edition Unstated . Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Alastair. Size: 12 1/4" x 9 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped and illustrated ivory cloth over boards, page edges deckled, illustrated with 10 plates plus two additional folding plates that… Read more about this item