WILDE, OSCAR.. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER PROSE PIECES. This Edition on handmade paper is limited to 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and America.. Methuen and Co. 36 Essex Street W.C., London, 1908.

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Description: FIRST EDITION THUS. 8.5 x 6.25 inches. [iv] + 265 + [1] pp. Bound in original cream cloth, gilt, with gold blocks on front board. Top edge gilt, fore and lower edges deckled. Extremities worn, including head and tail of spine, which is sunned. a little foxing, largely confined to fly leaves, preliminaries and a few margins; otherwise a very good copy. A 1908 limited edition collecting together a variety of short prose pieces by Oscar Wilde. The first four short stories, including the title piece, and The Canterville Ghost, were originally published in various periodicals in 1887 and collected together in 1891 under the title, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime. The Portrait of Mr. W. H. was published in a periodical in 1889 and subsequently added to the Lord Arthur Savile collection. Likewise the six prose poems entitled Poems in Prose first appeared together in The Fortnightly Review of 1894 and were separately published in 1905 as was the essay, The Rise of Historical Criticism (in the US; it had originally been written by Wilde at Oxford in 1879), before being collected for the first time in this edition. ART / LITERATURE SHORT STORIES LIT. FICTION ESSAYS 19TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE

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Wilde, Oscar. LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER PROSE PIECES. Methuen and Co., London, 1908.

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Description: Discoloration on the spine, some spotting on the inside page, and; 266 pages

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Wilde, Oscar. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other Prose Pieces. Methuen and Co, London, 1908.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Single volume from the collected works, edition of 1000 copies. Cream coloured cloth. Gilt lettering and designs by Charles Ricketts to the front board with gilt lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Edges a little age-toned and spine a little yellowed, with a light bump to the spine foot, else a very good, tight and clean copy.

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Wilde, Oscar. Lord Arthur Saville's Crime. Methuen, London, 1908.

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Condition: Good

Description: Limited edition of 80 bound in vellum. Some damp marks to cover, not hugely visible and only affects foot of front. Spine tanned, CE uncut. PP lightly tanned, else a sound, rare copy. Size: 8vo

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Wilde, Oscar. 13 matching volumes [Poems; De Profundis; The Duchess of Padua; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Pieces; A House of Pomegranates and other Tales; Miscellanies; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of no Importance; Reviews; Intentions and The Soul of Man; Salome. A Florentine Tragedy and Vera; An Ideal Husband; Lady Windermere's Fan]. Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1908.

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Description: , 13 volumes of a 14 volume set on handmade paper, limited edition of 1000 Limited Edition , missing Dorian Grey from the set, corners and spines lightly bumped, spines sunned, untrimmed edges, foxing to endpapers and occasionally to pages, good condition , cream cloth, gilt titles top front and spine, gilt illustrations to fronts, gilt top edges , octavo, 22 cm x 16 cm Hardback ISBN:

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