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WILDE (Oscar)
1 : After Reading; Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
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Illustrated by Ethelbert White. LIMITED EDITION OF JUST 75 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND ILLUSTRATOR. Beaumont Press, 1921. Original vellum backed boards, a trifle discoloured at head o/w very good indeed.
£ 400.00    Ref: 570003
WILDE (Oscar) and JACKSON (John Wyse)
2 : Aristotle at Afternoon Tea; the rare Oscar Wilde
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First Edition. Fourth Estate, 1991. Fine in d/w.
£ 18.00    Ref: 569688
WILDE (Oscar)
3 : De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Tauchnitz Edition, 1908. Wrappers. Worn on darkened spine o/w good.
£ 20.00    Ref: 570031
WILDE (Oscar)
4 : De Profundis; a facsimile.
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Folio.Introduction by Merlin Holland. LIMITED EDITION OF 495 COPIES. The British Library, 2000. Blue cloth. Fine.
£ 45.00    Ref: 564624
WILDE (Oscar)
5 : For Love of the King
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Small 8vo. First Trade Edition. Methuen, 1923. Green cloth. Spine a little discoloured o/w very good. Lowes Dickinson's copy with his signature on browned fly leaf.
£ 40.00    Ref: 569057
WILDE (Oscar)
6 : Selected Essays and Poems
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First Edition. Penguin Books, 1954. Wrappers. Very good.
£ 8.50    Ref: 569861
WILDE (Oscar)
7 : Selected Works, with 12 unpublished letters
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Edited with an Introduction by Richard Aldington. First Edition. Heinemann, 1946.Very good in torn d/w.
£ 12.00    Ref: 570033
WILDE (Oscar)
8 : Small collection of ephemera
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3 postcards, prospectus for The Sphinx (to be printed by Curwen Press), 1981,and Theatre programmes for An Ideal Husband (2 - one dated 1961 and another dated 1978, both at theatres in Bromley), A Woman of No Importance Savoy Theatre, N.d., The Importance of Being Earnest at The Lyric Theatre. N.d (but John Gielgud played John Worthing and the price of an Armstrong Siddeley motor car was £295),and Lady Windemere's Fan at Theatre Royal, Haymarket,N.d.Directed by John Gielgud. Decor by Cecil Beaton (in the play not in the production, sadly) and a few newscuttings. An amusing pot-pourri !
£ 20.00    Ref: 569998
WILDE (Oscar) and NICHOLLS (Mark)
9 : The Importance of Being Oscar
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First Edition. Robson Books, 1981. Very good indeed in d/w faded on spine and part of lower panel.
£ 15.00    Ref: 569689
WILDE (Oscar)
10 : The Poems
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Tauchnitz Edition, 1911. Wrappers. Broken in binding. Spine very worn o/w good.
£ 20.00    Ref: 570032
WILDE (Oscar)
11 : The Sphinx
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First Edition thus. John Lane, 1918. Small 4to. 2pp adverts at end. Original illustrated boards by Charles Ricketts. Very good in the scarce d/w.
£ 65.00    Ref: 569681
WILDE (Oscar) and CROFT-COOKE (Rupert)
12 : The Unrecorded Life of Oscar Wilde
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First Edition. Illustrated. W.H.Allen, 1972. Very good in d/w worn and chipped at head of spine and on corners.
£ 12.50    Ref: 569721