Oscar Wilde – Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime [The Canterville Ghost] – First Edition 1908
£375.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ published by Methuen in 1908. Bound in the publishers original ivory coloured buckram with gilt title lettering to spine and gilt tooling and title lettering to front board. This is the first Methuen edition. This Edition on handmade paper is limited to a 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and America. A very good book. No inscriptions. Browning to the spine, some rubbing. Thin line to the front board. The first Methuen edition of this classic Oscar Wilde collection of prose pieces. Contains ‘The Canterville Ghost’ and the ‘Model Millionaire’ amongst the seven pieces.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ published by Methuen in 1908. Bound in the publishers original ivory coloured buckram with gilt title lettering to spine and gilt tooling and title lettering to front board. This is the first Methuen edition. This Edition on handmade paper is limited to a 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and America. A very good book. No inscriptions. Browning to the spine, some rubbing. Thin line to the front board. The first Methuen edition of this classic Oscar Wilde collection of prose pieces. Contains ‘The Canterville Ghost’ and the ‘Model Millionaire’ amongst the seven pieces.
