1001 NACHT. Aus der von Felix Paul Greve Besorgtenvollstandigen Ausgabe und in Vier Banden Herausgegeben von Paul Ernst. de GROVE, Frederick Philip [Felix Paul Greve] - 1911

Canada: Oberon Press [1976]. (Hardcover) 243pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece. Minor dampstaining on bottom edge of book, dust jacket rubbed. Also writes as Felix Paul Greve. Originally published as Felix Paul Greve--Maurermeister Ihles Haus. Introduction by A.W. Riley & Douglas O. Spettigue. Translated by Paul P. Gubbins. (Fiction, Canadian).

Toronto: MacMillan [1946], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 458pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Frontispiece. There is some offsetting on the endpapers, there is some faint underlining on the blurb on the front flap of the dust jacket, and the dust jacket has very minor edgewear with a small chip. Also writes as Felix Paul Greve. Locale: Manitoba. (Fiction, Canadian, Autobiography, Immigrants--Canada, Memoir).

Toronto: Macmillan Company 1946. (Hardcover) 457pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dark red cloth with gilt lettering and cover decoration. Photographic frontispiece. The covers are lightly worn, the dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn and creased. "A Canadian by law and conviction, Mr. Grove was born in Sweden in 1872 of a Swedish father and a Scottish mother. As a young man he wrote with equal distinction in French, German, Swedish and English". Also writes as Felix Paul Greve. Locale: Manitoba. (Fiction, Canadian, Autobiography, Immigrants--Canada, Memoir).

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart [1922], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Good to very good, no dust jacket. 231pp. Also writes as Felix Paul Greve. Illustrations by C.M. Manly. (Fiction, Canadian).

Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1984. First edition in English. . Beige silk, decorative paper labels on spine and front cover. Brown end papers. Printed in brown & black. Of an edition of 106 copies, this is one of 90 bound in Coromandel silk. A fine copy. Issued as Publications of the F.P. Greve Seminar, Number One. Originally published in German in 1903. A handsome book, nicely produced. Woodsworth A32a.

Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns, 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First German translation of Wilde's short story, "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." , first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891). The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. which has led to speculation of the Bard's bisexuality. From the library of famous American art collector, lawyer and bibliophile John Quinn (1870 - 1924) with his book plate, designed by Yeats, on the pastedown. 8vo, gray cloth, printed in black. (8), L, 136. Art-Nouveau style endpapers. Book ticket from The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, Ohio bottom rear pastedown. Covers moderately soiled, slight lean to spine, solid binding, clean internals. Prelims include publisher's descriptions of its other Wilde titles. Scarce edition with a unique provenance.