Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 20,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
WILDE, OSCAR. The Importance of Being Earnest. [16], 151, [1] pages, including half-title. 4to, 219x177 mm, early 20th-century burgundy levant gilt, front cover slightly bowed; conspicuous foxing on opening leaves, scattered minor foxing elsewhere, front and end leaves with offsetting from turn-ins; top edges gilt, others uncut. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899

Additional Details

first edition, large-paper issue, of Wilde's last and greatest play, first staged in 1895. number 50 of 100 copies, signed by wilde. Mason 381.