May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 547

Price Realized: $ 144
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(WILDE, OSCAR.) Cosgrove, Mabel, known as Mrs. Chan-Toon. For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque. 8vo, cream boards with gilt decorations by Charles Ricketts; original dust jacket, very good condition. One of 1000 unnumbered copies of the book that was later determined to not be authored by Wilde, but by the delusional Mrs. Chan-Toon, i.e. Cosgrove, a childhhood friend of Wilde. London, (1922)