[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by Oscar Wilde's Lover to Holbrook Jackson

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, signed 
books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the unusual.

DOUGLAS,  Lord  Alfred.  WITHOUT APOLOGY.  London:  Martin  Secker
(1938).  First  Edition.  Account   of  relationship  between  Douglas
("Bosie")  with  his  longtime  companion, Oscar  Wilde.  It  was  his
father's  actions  that  led to the arrest of Wilde and  his  eventual
imprisonment  in 1895. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on
the  front endpaper to bookman Holbrook Jackson on 9 April 1938,  with
Jackson's  bookplate  on the front pastedown. There are a  handful  of
interesting  marginal notes in pencil by Jackson including an instance
where  he  fills in information left blank by Douglas. Some foxing  to
preliminaries  and bulked text edges; spine sunned. Very Good, lacking
the dustwrapper.                                               $950.00

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