A. Edward Newton Oscar Wilde

NEWTON, A. EDWARD. THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918.
First Edition bound in three quarter morocco, upper corner bumped, edges rubbed, 1/2 inch chip to upper spine. Gilt lettering to spine, front hinge. Binding tight, text clean. Marbled end papers.

First edition American born A. Edward Newton was the leading authority on book collecting in the first half of the 20th century (1864-1940). Ninety illustrations, plus color frontispiece; caricature of W.M. Thackeray & Charles Dickens. Illustrations include such rarities as: Charles Dickens incription to Charles Dickens, Jr.; Title of George Moore's "Pagen Poems", presentation copy to Oscar Wilde; Original Illustration for Vanity Fair; First Page of a Rare Edition of "Robinson Crusoe"' ; Caricature of Oscar Wilde, from the original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley, etc. Many letters, incriptions, original title pages of first editions, great collectors, collections , auctions, etc. Third Impression. A wonderful book on collecting. In protective polyester wraps. Three-Quarter Leather Very Good

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Fabes, G.H. / Fabes, G.H. & Foyle, W.A. Modern First Editions : Their Points and Values. [First, Second & Third Series, complete] W. & G. Foyle, London, first-third series, 1929-1932.
Editions limited to 750, 1000 and 750 numbered copies. An early attempt to provide bibliographical information for the collectors of "modern firsts", and still of interest for the lesser authors for whom no comprehensive bibliography exists. With interesting introductory essays by Fabes and, in the second volume, his collaborator William Foyle, who finds it necessary to defend himself against the charge of revealing trade secrets to the public. Authors for whom one or more works are described are : Lascelles Abercombie, Michael Arlen, Maurice Baring, J.M.Barrie, H.E. Bates, Max Beerbohm, Hilaire Belloc, Arnold Bennett, Augustine Birrell, David Bone, Rupert Brooke, Thomas Burke, Roy Campbell, A.E. Coppard, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, 'Baron' Corvo, Hubert Crackanthorpe, S.R. Crockett, John Davidson, Rhys Davies, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, William de Morgan, Austin Dobson, Ernest Dowson, C.L. Dodgson, Norman Douglas, A. Conan Doyle, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, L. Feutwanger, J.E. Flecker, Ronald Firbank, John Freeman, John Galsworthy, R.B.C. Graham, Robert Graves, H. Rider Haggard, James Hanley, Frank Harris, A.P. Herbert, Radclyffe Hall, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Norah Hoult, A.E. Housman, Lawrence Housman, Aldous Huxley, W.W. Jacobs, J.K. Jerome, Margaret Kennedy, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, Francis Letwidge, Shane Leslie, Sinclair Lewis, W.J. Locke, Arthur Machen, Compton Mackenzie, Katherine Mansfield, John Masefield, W.S. Maugham, George Meredith, Leonard Merrick, Alice Meynell, C.K. Montague, George Moore, R.H. Mottram, H.H. Munro, A.E. Newton, Alfred Noyes, Liam O'Flaherty, Eden Phillpotts, T.F. Powys, J.B. Priestley, A. Quiller-Couch, E. Remarque, Michael Sadleir, Sean O'Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, A.D. Sedgwick, Osbert Sitwell, George Bernard Shaw, M.P. Shiel, Somerville & Ross, J. Stephens, R.L. Stevenson, J.A. Symonds, Arthur Symons, Edward Thomas, Helen Thomas, H.M. Tomlinson, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, Stanley Weyman, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats.

3 vols, cloth, 8vo, xi, 83, xvii, 93, xxvii, 99 pp. Approximately 300 entries. A Good set, volumes 1 and 3 in torn dustwrappers. Name on front pastedown endpaper of Vol 3. .

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Sotheby Parke Bernet& Co. Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents [ Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 29th June,1982 ]. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 29th June 1982
Among the highlights noted were the following: One of the Longest Autograph Letters of Jane Austen (to Her Sister Cassandra); an Autograph Letter of John Keats; a Remarkable and Unpublished Letter of Joseph Haydn, with Other Letters Relating to Him; the Working Drafts and Papers for Graham Greene's Recent and Already Celebrated Essay "J'accuse"; An Apparently Unrecorded Autograph Manuscript by John Locke: "A Call to the Nation to Unity"; Papers of the Society of Authors; Lennox Robinson; Sir Samuel Baker; Dorothy L. Sayers; and B.J. Lees, Allegedly the Medium of Queen Victoria; A Remarkable Collection of Shakespearian Forgeries by William Henry Ireland; A Certificate Signed by Oscar Wilde's Doctors Three Days Before His Death; Literature: Letters or Manuscripts by W. H. Ainsworth, H. C. Andersen, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Elizabeth Bowen, Vera Brittain, Rupert Brooke, E. B. and Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Roy Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, John Clare, Joseph Conrad, John Davidson, C. Day Lewis, de la Mare, Charles Dickens, C. L. Dodgson, T.S liot, Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster, Roy Fuller, John Galsworthy, Leon Garfield, David Gascoyne, Edward Gibbon, Goethe, William Golding, Edmund Gosse, Robert Graves, Thomas Gray, Lady Gregory, Thom Gunn, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, A.E. and Laurence Housman, Leigh Hunt, Aldous Huxley, W, E, Johns, David Jones, James Joyce, D.H. and T. E. Lawrence, Jack London, W.S. Maugham, Iris Murdoch, Sean O'Casey, George Orwell, Ezra Pound (Important Series), J. C. Powys, Proust, Allen Ramsay, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.B. Shaw (including a Long Series to Sean O'Casey), Robert Southey, Stephen Spender, Lytton Strachey, Stevie Smith, Thackeray, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Valery, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, P. G. Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, George, J. B. and W. B. Yeats; Music: Letters or Manuscripts by Bartok, Bellini, J. B. Cramer, Delius, Donizetti, Joseph Haydn, Liszt, Rossini, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Wagner and Vaughan Williams; History, Art Etc: Letters or Manuscripts by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, George II, III and IV, Victoria, Churchill, Disraeli, Sir Thomas Phillipps; Baden Powell; General Gordon (Important Series), J. A. Grant, Stanley, Livingstone: Abraham Lincoln; H.B. Stowe: Louis XVIII, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon I, de Sade, George Sand, Garrick, Irving, Kean, Lillie Langtry, Macready, Sheridan, Constable, Degas, Delacroix, Lovat Fraser, Eric Gill, Lear, Matisse, Monet, Henry Moore, Rowlandson, Stanley Spencer, Turner, Whistler, G.E. Moore, Jeremy Taylor, John Wesley, Darwin, Freud and Newton. Indexed

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 273 pp, plates, ills. lots. Corner of front wrapper and one or two pages creased, Good.

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