Oscar Wilde - Editor. The Woman's World - Original Bound Edition, 1888. Volume I. Cassell, 1888.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st edition Volume I, 4to (12¼ x 9½ ins). Original 3/4 leather and cloth boards. Quite worn with spine missing and both covers loose. First 4 (1/2, 3/4) pages torn along bottom right-hand edge & Final 2 pages 571/2 torn along center. Pp. iv + 572 pages + v-viii. All other contents are very good and better, Many illustrations and color plates. NOTE: This is NOT a reprint, it is the Original Printing from 1888.

Seller: White Mountains, Rare Books and Maps, Lincoln, NH, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar (Editor). The Woman's World. [Volume I]. London: Cassell & Company, 1888.

Price: US$636.01 + shipping

Description: Small folio, iv, 572 pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates, recent owner's inscription to paste down. Contemporary maroon half morocco, recently rebacked retaining the original backstrip. Wilde was appointed editor of "The Lady's World" in June 1887. Quickly renamed "The Woman's World", Wilde contributed 13 articles in his 2 years as editor, of which 5 appear here, all titled "Literary and other Notes," and comprising mostly book reviews. Scarce. Mason 277-281.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom