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Oscar Wilde, a critical study: Available Copies

1913. Third Edition. 234 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages; more prominent and heavier to text block edges and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible marking and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with moderate crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

1913 printing. Small hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Light scuffing with age, minor fraying to edges. Gilt titles remain bright. Spine cracked, but all pages intact. Mild yellowing to page edges. Text clean, no underlining. Good copy.

Light wear to cover edges. Plate inside the front cover. Inscriptions on endpapers, rear and front. No markings on text pages or major defects.; 234 pages

Print on Demand. Excerpt from Oscar Wilde. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase.

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Spine, binding and cover all fine; gilt on spine very bright. Contents very clean, no inscription; outer edges have some foxing and softening a little.

Gilt blue cloth.; Foxed; browned.

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.04

5th edn. 12mo. Original blue cloth (casing with lean and worn at edges), no dustwrapper. Pp. vii + 234 (endpapers heavily tanned; from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her bookstamp on front endpaper; no inscriptions).

1913. Methuen and Co Ltd. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Blue boards. Gilt titles on spine. Spine sunned. Spine worn. Boards and spine marked. Some edgewear. Previous owners name. Pages discoloured. Foxing throughout to pages and page edges. 6x4.

Covers have some very slight wear to extremities. Endpapers are browned. Pages are slightly browned. Page ends have very slight foxing.

New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

hardcover octavo (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days

LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1912 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 238 Language: English

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1923 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 246 Language: English Pages: 246

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1913 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 248 Language: English Pages: 248

Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1915 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 272 Language: English Pages: 272

Good condition, previous owner's signature, spine darkened slightly, shading on end papers, some age spotting to page edges, corners slightly rubbed.

1913 copy of Oscar Wilde; A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome. Blue boards heavily worn and rubbed in places. Some knocks along the edges and marks overall. Foxing to outer text block edges and within, heavier in places. Inscription to ffep.

Methuen & Co. London, 1913. Hardcover First thus .vii 234, pages + 8 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. soiling and scuffs to boards with name to fep and light tanning to extremeties but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Excerpt: .painting, a Gabriel Metsu or a Jan van Eyck, in which he paints Wainewright with his cats, his curiosities, his crucifixes, his rare books, his cameos, and his 'brown-biscuit tea-pots, filigree worked,' against a background in which green predominates. 'He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.' Wilde also was fond of green. I have not counted occasions, but I have the impression that green is the colour most often mentioned alike in his verse and in his prose. Green and jade: these are his keynotes in colour, unless I am mistaken, and in these matters impressions are less likely to err than mathematics. But the most striking and beautiful thing in Intentions is that dialogue between the two young men in a library whose windows look over the kaleidoscopic swirl of Piccadilly to the trees and lawns of the Green Park. They talk through the summer night, supping delicately on ortolans and Chambertin, and, in the early morning, draw the curtains, see the silver ribbon of the road, the purple mist among the trees, and walk down to Covent Garden to look at the roses that have come in from the country. Pg 115 There is something of Boccaccio in that setting, something, too, of Landor in the lucid sentences of their talk, and something of Walter Pater in the choice of the fruit they so idly pluck from the tree of knowledge. But Pater could not have let their conversation change so easily from smooth to ripple and from ripple to smooth; Landor would have caught the ripples and carved them in transparent moonstone, and Boccaccio would have given them girls to talk of, instead of 'The Critic as Artist.' That would seem to be a question for the learned and not for two young exquisites with a taste for music and books and an æsthetic dislike of the German language. But the only critical dialogue in English literature. 44 pp. Englisch

Fine in cloth-covered boards.

212 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.48 inches. This item is printed on demand.

RO60105775: 1913. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 234 pages. Titre doré sur le dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

212 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.48 inches. This item is printed on demand.

This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days

This is a first edition copy of the first reprint of Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study, by Arthur Ransome. The original printing of the title was in 1912, but due to a libel suit against the author, was removed from shelves and then released as a reprint (according to the author's note in the book). The book is in very good condition.

New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.