Peter Monro Jack, "New Reminiscences of Wilde", The New York Times, 6 December 1936 Vincent O'Sullivan, Sentiment, 2015 Linda G. A very good copy indeed, a few light chips to glassine and small loss to foot of spine panel, else clean and fresh. Spine darkened, extremities lightly bumped, a few marks to covers, one corner worn, slight offsetting to contents, particularly endpapers, edges of a few leaves toned. With original glassine jacket.įaint pencil drawing on front free endpaper dated 1929. Original japon boards, spine and covers lettered in gilt, covers with double fillet borders and design of a detached winged female head with the face of a pig passing into the Houses of Sin, all gilt, fore and lower edge untrimmed. He wrote a memoir of his friend, Aspects of Wilde (1936), which was praised by Bernard Shaw as "the first sane and credible description" which helped "clean up the superfluous mud that has been heaped on the story of his last days in Paris" (quoted by Jack). This friendship excluded O'Sullivan from literary and financial success, as many well-paying magazines shunned Wilde's associates, and by 1909 he was left largely destitute.
He is often remarked upon for the kindness he showed Wilde in his later years: it was O'Sullivan who paid for Wilde to travel to Naples on his release from prison in 1897, gave him a place to stay, and supported him financially. This friendship excluded O'Sullivan from literary and financial He produced several volumes of poetry and short stories laden with supernatural themes, which were praised by Wilde: "in what a midnight his soul seems to walk, and what maladies he draws from the moon!" (quoted in O'Sullivan).
O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was a short story writer, poet, and critic, born into a prosperous Irish American family, the wealth of which was lost by his brother Percy's mismanagement of the family coffee business. This volume contains the decadent poems "Malaria", "Drug", "Love in Tears", and "The Full Moon". Much has been made of Beardsley's curious cover design for this title, with scholar Linda Zatlin remarking that "Beardsley blends the winged head of a woman with the Ropsian snout of a pig", suggesting an allusion to the tradition of "the winged phallus as a symbol of male generative power" (p. The latter designed the covers for this title, having previously contributed a frontispiece to O'Sullivan's A Book of Bargains (1896). O'Sullivan was an American decadent author who wrote for the Savoy and was a friend of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. First edition, limited issue, number 22 of 400 copies printed by the Chiswick Press.
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