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Oscar Wilde – The Sphinx without a Secret, The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire – Private Printing
£1,250.00
First Edition, softcover of 64 pages, stated ‘Privately printed’. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection, [unnumbered] of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers are soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Rubbing and wear to the edges
A comic ghost story and two further societal studies, published by Leonard Smithers, or by Wright & Jones, after Wilde’s death in 1900.
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First Edition, softcover of 64 pages, stated ‘Privately printed’. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection, [unnumbered] of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers are soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Rubbing and wear to the edges
A comic ghost story and two further societal studies, published by Leonard Smithers, or by Wright & Jones, after Wilde’s death in 1900.
