Wilde, Oscar

"PAMPHLETS, Oscar Wilde" [gilt spine title, four titles]

c. 1890s. Hardcover. Good. Item #22-4171

Grey cloth, 8.5 x 6.5", vp, covers heavily worn and stained, front cover almost detached, rear inner hinge cracked, contents a little toned but still good. Bound in are: "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young", Privately Printed: London 1894, 7.25 x 4.75", wraps, 11pp, with adhesion marks along spine on front cover; "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.", Privately Printed, 8.25 x 6.5", wraps, 48pp, front cover unevenly toned, LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #65); "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, A Study of Duty", Privately Printed, 8.25 x 6.5", wraps, 47pp, LIMTED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #83); and "The Priest and The Acolyte", Privately Printed: (1894), 8.25 x 6.5", wraps, 44pp, written in MS is "no. 30 of 50 copies". An incredible collection of rare Wilde pamphlets, very SCARCE individually, and even more valuable collected together, however bad the binding is.

Price: $1,495.00