Wilde oscar subject (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Good hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight,hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and small tear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Full Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering on the sine, light wear to the extremities of the dust jacket. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a VERY GOOD brodart protected dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Slightly Frayed and Chipped. Later Printing.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Later Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 420 pages illustrations, facsimiles (on lining papers), portraits 23 cm ; ISBN: 0670529060; 9780670529063 LCCN: 69-15653 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 821/.8; B ; OCLC: 93013 ; green and black cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Une biographie qui insiste plus particulièrement sur les relations entre Oscar Wilde et la France." ; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, WIlliam Rothenstein, James MacNeil Whistler, Maurice Greiffenhagen, William Powell Frith, Julia Margaret Cameron, A J Wyatt, Toulouse-Lautrec ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. BOOK, ALSO INCLUDED, GUY DE MAUPASSANT, ERLE STANLEY GARDNER, SCOTT TUROW, EMIL ZOLA.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, 3rd printing ; xvii, 680 pages [32] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394554841; 9780394554846 LCCN: 87-45354 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.809; B ; OCLC: 16089096 ; brown cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1989.; Contents: Beginnings -- Toil of growing up -- Wilde at Oxford -- Rome and Greece -- An incomplete aesthete -- Advances -- Setting sail -- Declaring his genius -- Indoctrinating America -- Countering the renaissance -- Two kinds of stage -- Mr. and Mrs. Wilde -- Exaltations -- Disciple to master -- The age of Dorian -- Hellenizing Paris -- A good woman, and others -- A late victorian love affair -- Sailing into the wind -- Disgrace -- 'I am the prosecutorin this case' -- Doom deferred -- Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading -- Escape from Reading -- Exile -- Prisoner at large -- The leftover years. ; "In this long-awaited biography, Wilde the legendary Victorian--brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions--is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. The author depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. He presents Wilde's Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and lovers, his clothes, coiffures, and the decor of his rooms. The saga of his 1882 American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties, of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle époque" and the Greece, Italy and North Africa of Wilde's travels. This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthetic who was perilously at odds with Victorian society. After his period of success and daring, the fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas is followed by exposure, imprisonment, a few wretched years abroad and death in exile. The tragic end of Wilde's life leaves the reader with a sense of compassion and grief for the protagonist." ; arguably the greatest biography of Wilde in existence ; remainder mark at bottom ; tiny crease on front endpaper ; else FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, 3rd printing ; xvii, 680 pages [32] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394554841; 9780394554846 LCCN: 87-45354 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.809; B ; OCLC: 16089096 ; brown cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1989.; Contents: Beginnings -- Toil of growing up -- Wilde at Oxford -- Rome and Greece -- An incomplete aesthete -- Advances -- Setting sail -- Declaring his genius -- Indoctrinating America -- Countering the renaissance -- Two kinds of stage -- Mr. and Mrs. Wilde -- Exaltations -- Disciple to master -- The age of Dorian -- Hellenizing Paris -- A good woman, and others -- A late victorian love affair -- Sailing into the wind -- Disgrace -- 'I am the prosecutorin this case' -- Doom deferred -- Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading -- Escape from Reading -- Exile -- Prisoner at large -- The leftover years. ; "In this long-awaited biography, Wilde the legendary Victorian--brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions--is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. The author depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. He presents Wilde's Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and lovers, his clothes, coiffures, and the decor of his rooms. The saga of his 1882 American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties, of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle époque" and the Greece, Italy and North Africa of Wilde's travels. This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthetic who was perilously at odds with Victorian society. After his period of success and daring, the fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas is followed by exposure, imprisonment, a few wretched years abroad and death in exile. The tragic end of Wilde's life leaves the reader with a sense of compassion and grief for the protagonist." ; arguably the greatest biography of Wilde in existence ; remainder mark at bottom ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. xii, 410 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN: 0374227470; 9780374227470; National Library: 014833416 LCCN: 75-22439 ; Contents: Part one: Success -- Ireland and Oxford -- London and America -- Marriage and The woman's world -- Prelude to disaster -- Part two: Nemesis -- The first trial -- The second trial -- The third trial -- The prisoner -- The exile Postscript: Full circle. ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.8/09; B ; OCLC: 1531885 ; green boards in pictorial dustjacket ; slight wear to dustjacket ; illustrated ; well-received biography of Wilde ; VG/G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, 1st printing ; x, 289 pages illustrations 22 cm ; LCCN: 72-85843 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.8/09; B ; OCLC: 508434 ; black cloth ; no dustjacket ; ownership stamp and writing on front endpaper ; Contents: The biographers and the legends -- Oxford -- Sharing rooms in London -- On show in America -- Paris and an English lecture tour -- Marriage and editorship -- Bosie Douglas -- Plays and playthings -- The enemy -- Card with hideous words -- The trials -- Prison -- Freedom -- Frivolous last years ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. vii, 381 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm ; LCCN: 40-27323 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 753719 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Part one: Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards. ; name on front endpaper ; spine sunned ; numerous illustrations, some rarely seen ; G. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. vii, 381 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm ; LCCN: 41-24742 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 635129 ; orange cloth, in dustjacket ; Contents: Part one: Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards. ; dustjacket illustration by Simon ; name on front endpaper ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. vii, 381 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm ; LCCN: 41-24742 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 635129 ; orange cloth, in dustjacket ; Contents: Part one: Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards. ; dustjacket illustration by Simon ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 374 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0312059973; 9780312059972 LCCN: 90-28738 ; "A Thomas Dunne book." ; LC: PS3569.A784; Dewey: 813/.54 ; OCLC: 22983512 ; "During his lecture tour of the American West, English writer and personality Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been murdering prostitutes, and after he is named a suspect, he is determined to find the madman and clear his name" ; "A savage killer haunts the lecture tour of a vaunted Irish playwrightThough a world-renowned dandy, Oscar Wilde is not too refined for Colorado. As he travels across America on the lecture circuit, the famously witty playwright has found much to love about the western states. Whiskey, saloons, and friendly conversation with notables like John 'Doc' Holliday-Wilde loves it all. There is even, in every town his entourage visits, a sensational murder. In the nights after Wilde gives his talks, a man with a knife goes lurking in the back alleys and red-light districts of these dusty western towns. Each morning, the police find the remains of a savagely murdered prostitute. Booze-addled detective Earl Grigsby is tracking the killer, and suspects Wilde may be the one with blood on his hands. If he ever wants to leave America, Wilde will have to use his wit to unmask the savage killer." ; "Walter Satterthwait (b. 1946) is an author of mysteries and historical fiction. A fan of mystery novels from a young age, he spent high school immersed in the works of Dashiell Hammett and Mickey Spillane. While working as a bartender in New York in the late 1970s, he wrote his first book: an adventure novel, Cocaine Blues (1979), about a drug dealer on the run from a pair of killers. After his second thriller, The Aegean Affair (1982), Satterthwait created his best-known character, Santa Fe private detective Joshua Croft. Beginning with Wall of Glass (1988), Satterthwait wrote five Croft novels, concluding the series with 1996's Accustomed to the Dark. In between Croft books, he wrote mysteries starring historical figures, including Miss Lizzie (1989), a novel about Lizzie Borden, and Wilde West (1991), a western mystery starring Oscar Wilde. His most recent novel is Dead Horse (2007), an account of the mysterious death of Depression-era pulp writer Raoul Whitfield" ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Full Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. First American Edition. FIRST AMER. EDITION, first printing. This is volume IV of the "Plays of Oscar Wilde" series. Full purple cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. Light wear to the top & bottom of the spine. Price sticker removal abrasion to the front free endpaper. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in EXCELLENT condition. A good gift. A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms, and strangles him. This awakens the affection of his wife, and two are reconciled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; xxi, 221 pages : facsimile ; 22 cm ; National Library: 014833497 LCCN: 63-20020 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 362883 ; black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: From Pentonville to Wandsworth ; Bankrupcy and breakdown ; Reading under Major Isaacson ; Reading under Major Nelson ; Last months in Reading ; Release ; "The ballad of Reading Gaol" ; "De profundis" ; "Based largely on the British Home Office papers in the case, to which access has always been withheld in the past. After a great deal of official obstruction to his seeing these important documents,Mr. Montgomery Hyde raised the matter as a member of Parliament on the floor of the House of Commons, and eventually the papers were made available to him. No restrictions have ben placed upon their use for the purposes of this book." ; an important Wilde source book ; bookplate; spine sunned, else FINE/FINE. Book.…