[Rarebooks] For Sale: 10-Volume Set of Oscar Wilde's Complete Writings

[Norman Kane]

WILDE, OSCAR.  COMPLETE WRITINGS.  INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD LE GALLIENNE.  ILLUSTRATED       . . .   [10 VOLUMES.]  N. Y.: Pearson Publishing Co., 1909.  1 of 1000 numbered sets of the Deluxe Library Edition.  Original half morocco by Brentano's with raised bands and gilt decorations, top edges gilt,  marbled boards, some spines with inconspicuous professional repairs, some joints neatly reinforced. The "Poems in Prose" volume contains work by Lady Wilde; "De Profundis" is from the original unexpergated German edition,translated by Henry Zick; there is a 296-page "Life of Oscar Wilde"; Wilde's translation of Barbey D'Aurevilly's "What Never Dies" is included.  
$390.00         (Trade Discount Available)

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