WILDE OSCAR The Importance of Being Earnest

Sale 1980 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 12,650

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

WILDE, OSCAR. The Importance of Being Earnest. 4to, publisher's mauve cloth with gilt lettering and repeating leaf designs by Charles Shannon, spine dulled, foot bumped with small 4-mm cloth split and crease extending 3 inches into front board; offsetting to front endpaper and half-title and impressions from paper clips. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899

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limited first edition. one of 100 numbered large-paper copies signed by wilde.