Search Results: Books by lord alfred douglas

London.: Curwen Press for Duckworth., 1939.. Original publisher's green buckram-backed marbled boards, printed label to upper board; spine titled in gilt.. Oblong folio. (257 x 396 mm).. Half-title with justification and John Piper's signature verso, title page followed by Lord Alfred Douglas's Introduction and 24 leaves with 12 hand-coloured aquatint views, each with title leaf and a short descriptive text printed verso on blue paper stock; tissue guard leaves. The deluxe edition of Piper's charming and evocative hand-coloured aquatints of Brighton.From the signed edition limited to 55 copies, each plate hand coloured by John Piper.Piper and his friend John Betjeman produced this work as part of the attempt to stop the redevelopment of the Georgian Brighton Seafront.The views comprise, in this order:- 'The First Avenue Hotel, Hove'- 'The Royal Pavilion' - 'Regency Square from the West Pier'- 'Brighton from the Station Yard'- 'Brunswick Terrace'- 'Bedford Square' - 'Mixed Styles:… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A green glass posy holder with the etched inscription "To Oscar Love Bosie" and measuring approximately 1 x 7 cm. Small crack to rear lip of the glass, else fine. Resembling a small vase, the posy holder was romanticized as a fashion accessory and typically used to hold the flowers brought to ladies by their courting 'gentleman callers'. Acquired from a small regional UK auction house, there is no recorded provenance with this diminutive Wilde relic. The etching is quite clearly of the period and given the unique nature of the names, we have no reason to doubt that it was indeed an item which passed between them. The English poet and journalist, Lord Alfred Douglas, also known as "Bosie," was Wilde's partner for the last decade of the writer's life.  Douglas's father, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, strongly disapproved of their relationship, and was at the center of the libel lawsuit that ultimately led to Wilde's imprisonment for sodomyThe posy holder is… Read More

1902. New York, Moffat, Yard & Company, 1902-1912. Play and Letters: 20.3 cm x 25.3 cm / Book: 13 cm x 19,5 cm. Pagination: Balld (Poem): 6 pages / Manuscript Letter (MLS): 2 pages / Book: 190 pages. Original Hardcover / Blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine in protective collector's mylar / The play protected in clear folder. The manuscript pages overall in excellent condition besides page IV of the play which has two abrasions with small parts of the text missing only. The book in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Viereck's usual vanity made him add the lovely littel note of critical success. The personal copy of this controversial author's most interesting book is a unique possibility for each collector of unusual Vampire material. Extraordinary collection ! New York City, Nov. 3, 1912 Verehrter Herr ! Ich zaehle mich zu den Freunden der Schule, deren Geist Sie in Deutschland sind, ohne natuerlich jede Planke Ihrer liter- arischen Plattform gut zu… Read More

London: Rich & Cowan, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". None. Signed presentation copies of two volumes of poetry from Lord Alfred Douglas, accompanied by six letters from Douglas to Baroness Hazel Hergenhahn, containing frequent reference to the legacy of his relationship with Oscar Wilde First trade edition, first impression presentation copies of these two volumes of poetry from poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas, best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. These two volumes are both signed by Douglas, and are accompanied by six typed letters - on thirteen sheets - from Douglas, dated between 1939 and 1940.Both volumes are inscribed to the front free endpaper to Hazel Hergenhahn and dated 1943, with each letter addressed to the same. Baroness Hazel Hergenhahn, was a well travelled Californian of extensive cultural acquaintance, and a frequent correspondent of Douglas in his final years.The correspondence is lively, with frequent mentions of Oscar Wilde… Read More

UK: Duckworth & Co, 1906. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. The Placid Pug and Other Stories Signed by Lord Alfred Douglas The Belgian Hare Oscar Wilde First Edition Duckworth & Co 1906. Illustrated by P.P. No foxing or browning, front hinge beginning to show, a VG copy. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Lord Alfred Douglas to Monsignor Francis Browning Bickerstaffe-Drew aka John Ayscough (English writer and Roman Catholic priest, made private Chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII and Pius X, and Knight of the Sacred Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre).

London: The Academy Publishing Company, 1909. Second edition. Second edition. 8 x 6 inches. Expertly bound (unsigned) in elegant Arts & Crafts style in royal blue crushed morocco with an artful series of four series of gilt blossom arising from intertwining and winding double filet design work, as well as gilt rectilinear squares with dots. In the central area, there is an inlaid green border, with a small gilt wreath of inlaid white flowers nestled in the top and bottom. Gilt-ruled spine compartments, but no lettering. Superb full morocco doublures in blue and green with a gilt central ornament on the front doublure reading "C I". Green morocco flyleaves. Printed on Aldwych handmade paper. Postface by T.W.H. Crosland. Slight fading to spine and some light foxing to pages, otherwise fine. A distinctively A&C binding displaying a high degree of expertise and creativity.

Bruges: St. Catherine Press for P.C. Boutens, 1908. Modern green half morocco signed B. Graafland, marbled paper on covers, gilt flat spine. The original wrappers are bound in. In very good condition condition.. Modern green half morocco signed B. Graafland, marbled paper on covers, gilt flat spine. The original wrappers are bound in. Very rare private Bruges edition of the poems of Lord Alfred Douglas. Printed in 40 copies for private circulation. This publication contains "Poems" (Mercure de France, 1896), together with the other poetry by the same author, as found in the volume "The city of the soul" (London, Grant Richards, 1899). Published by the Dutch poet P.C. Boutens (1870-1943) and printed by the St. Catherine Press (Bruges) of Eduard Verbeke, who was a rival of J.E. Buschmann from Antwerpen.

London: The Academy Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original paper-covered boards. Light wear to extremities. In half brown morocco clamshell box. First edition. 30 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed with ALS. Inscribed on the verso of the half-title: "Alexander Tucker from Alfred Douglas July 1909." With an ALS to Tucker from Douglas on The Academy stationery, dated July 26, 1909, sending him this copy of Sonnets, and noting, "I think, in the words of Homer, that 'The wine had gone round a bout our minds' the other evening". NCBEL III:623

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1898. Cambridge Edition. Frontispiece portrait, vignette title page. 887 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilt-stamped cloth; rubbed at spine tps and corners, sunned along fore-edge of upper board. Very good. Cambridge Edition. Frontispiece portrait, vignette title page. 887 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., decorated naval officer of WWII, and royal of Hollywood's Golden Era, credited in more than 50 films (including the starring role in GUNGA DIN) -- with his bookplate on the front paste-down. It is inscribed to him on the flyleaf by his first wife, Joan Crawford: "To Douglas, my dearest and best pal / 'One of my first works.' / Happy birth-day from your little [illegible] / Billie." ("Billie" was one of Crawford's many nicknames, referring to her character in OUR MODERN MAIDENS.) They wed when Fairbanks was only 19, and Crawford 23. Initially, she found her husband's education and good taste inspiring, but… Read More

Oxford: James Thornton, 1893. First edition. First edition. Two volumes. Original dark gray wrappers with black lettering on cover consisting of title and contents. Vol. IV, No. I and No.II. A kind of set, often seen paired together, these two numbers packed with important authors and original articles by Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson, H. M. Beerbohm, Pierre Louys, J.A. Symonds, Alfred Douglas, Gleeson White, etc. Wilde's "The Disciple," appears for the first time in No. II. 1-48pp; 49-100pp. Side and bottom edges uncut. A superb, near fine set, rarely seen thus with spine paper still in tact.

London: Martin Secker, 1919. First edition, number 135 of 200 copies, signed by the author. Printed on Japon vellum. 126 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue boards, paper spine label. Fine. First edition, number 135 of 200 copies, signed by the author. Printed on Japon vellum. 126 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Coventry House, , 1932. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. SIGNED limited. Good, label missing from spine, spine sunned. Hinges are sound. Blue cloth. Binding weak in places. edgewear. #496 of 100 copies. 307pp. 6 X 9.

First edition, ordinary paper issue. Small octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas by Walter Spindler. Original cream wrappers, glassine dust wrapper (just a trifle chipped), edges uncut. Very good. 191 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in tan cloth slipcase with leather label.

Douglas first book was a translation from the French of Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1894.
Poems is unusual in that the text has been printed in both English and French.
Printed by L'Imprimerie Albouy.

London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. vii, 109 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Backed in Japon vellum, blue paper boards. Spine soiled and rubbed, but gold stamped title and publisher still readable, leaves untrimmed, text block is soild and fine. Inscription to front endpaper, "E. M. B. from D. R. G. / August 28, 1905. First edition. vii, 109 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

London; (1919): Martin Secker. First Edition. Octavo. 125(1) pp. Limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. The present copy is #21 specially printed on Japon paper. The author says in part; "Certain poems which appeared in an edition published in Paris in 1896, with a French translation, he had refrained from putting into this collected edition for the same reason which caused him to refuse to include them in "The City of the Soul, "published in 1899 and which impelled him to withhold permission for the republication of the entire Paris edition which had been more than once urged on him by Mercure de France, his first publishers. He understands having written these poems he cannot escape responsibility for them, and he had no doubt that after his death they will eventually be reprinted. His reason for omitting them from this edition is that, although there is no actual harm in them, they lend themselves to evil interpretations, and the fact that they have been interpreted by those… Read More

London: Duckworth, 1940. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed copy of Lord Douglas's final book on the Irish playwright and author, inscribed on front free endpaper to cricket broadcaster John Arlott (1914–1991) and dated February 1943.  Inscription is faded but signature remains bold.  Purple cloth in dust jacket. 143 pp. Frontis portrait of Wilde, portrait of Lord Alfred Douglas, from the drawing by Walter Spindler; facsimile of letter written to Douglas from Wilde in 1897. Foxing throughout, wear and some small tears and edge losses to dust jacket, else fine.Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's partner for the last decade of the writer's life.  Douglas's father, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, strongly disapproved of their relationship, and was at the center of the libel lawsuit that ultimately led to Wilde's imprisonment for sodomy.

Oxford: James Thornton, 1893. 1st edn. 8vo (8½ x 7 ins). Original printed wraps (intact with chips to rear cover with light toning and edge wear). Pp. 50-100 (no inscriptions), including "The Disciple," by Oscar Wilde, two pieces by Alfred Douglas and others by Beerbohm, Symonds, et al.

1935. London: Rich and Cowan, 1935. 8vo., blue cloth, embossed with device to upper board, gilt to spine; in the matching jacket; upper edge blue, else untrimmed; pp. vi, 3-110, [ii]; slightly sunned to lower edge, else a near-fine copy, many of the pages entirely unopened, in the very good, unclipped jacket (7/6 net), which is nicked to head of spine, and slightly dulled to backstrip/folds. First edition, inscribed by the poet to the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for G. Catalani by Alfred Douglas. April 1937." Most of Douglas's homoerotic poetry was written between 1893 and 1896 and appeared in undergraduate literary journals such as The Spirit Lamp, which he edited, and The Chameleon, or in small-circulation magazines like The Artist. Some of these poems appeared in a French edition of Douglas's verse in 1896, but most were not republished until the Lyrics of 1935, along with a companion volume of Sonnets, which appeared in the same year.

Rich and Cowan, London., 1935. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 111. Frontispiece portrait. Full parchment with gilt device to front board.Number 8 of 50 copies signed by the author.Very near fine in the original slipcase which is splitting and darkened at the sides.

London: Rich and Cowan, 1935. Frontis., [iv], 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth and printed light blue dust jacket. Fine, in very good toned, price clipped dust jacket. Frontis., [iv], 112 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.