"Books are a hardbound drug with no danger of overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
— Karl Lagerfeld

See below our stock of Oscar Wilde First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: Gordon Spilstead, 1980. [Illustrated Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.47 [1]. With a black and white illustration by Peake facing every poem. Number 158 of 200 copies SIGNED by the illustrator's wife, Maeve Gilmore, in the publilsher's pink silk-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and..... More
London: Murdoch and Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION in book-form. Pamphlet, pp.16, printed wrappers. Trivial toning. A fine copy, but for the rust-through from the single staple at fold. The text of Wilde's celebrated letter to the Daily Chronicle, appearing on 28th May 1897, which concerned the affair of Warder T...... More
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 214; [2], blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt, edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Ernest Thornton-Smith to paste-down. Edges toned, deckles are dusty, covers with some expected soiling/handling to light coloured cloth, spine..... More
London: Ward, Lock, and Bowden Ltd., [1895]. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, showing the imprint as Ward Lock and Bowden (amended from Ward Lock & Co.). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.334. Bound in the original grey paper-covered bevelled boards with titles and ornate gilt decoration to upper, parchment-backed with gilt..... More