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57 pages with color frontispiece and illustrations. Folio (12 1/4" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth over yellow boards with a tipped on blue sheet with gilt lettering and gilt and white illustration. First published in 1888. The Happy Prince and Other Talesis a small set of fairy tales of Oscar Wilde . It is one of the author's first literary works and was published as early as 1888. It is a collection of five non-traditional fairy tales, with the help of which the author creates hidden satire, criticism and parables. Condition: Corners bumped, some light soiling, spine ends rubbed else very good.
De Profundis Edited With A Preparatory Dedication By Robert Ross Introductory Essay By Frank Harris by Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, 1854-1900
by Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, 1854-1900
De Profundis Edited With A Preparatory Dedication By Robert Ross Introductory Essay By Frank Harris
by Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, 1854-1900
- Used
- Hardcover
N.Y., Modern Library, c1926. Hard Cover. [xxvi] p. 154 p.17 cm. Wilde's bitter denunciation of Alfred Lord Douglas, his supposed friend who encouraged the lawsuit that ruined Wilde. Presented by two friens: Robert Baldwin Ross (1869-1918) who was at Wilde's death bed; and Frank Harris, 1856-1931, a staunch defender. Stock# 30,264.Good, there has been gnawing for 2.5 cm o the front hinge/ dj good, some wear, same gnawing.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Format/Binding Hard Cover
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher N.Y., Modern Library, c1926
- Keywords Famous Trials