London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891. Original salmon paper-covered flexible boards decorated in dark red. First Edition of this collection of four dark, semi-comic mystery tales. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is an amusing but macabre tale (if there can be such a thing) about a young man who.....
[the fine Bradley Martin copy] Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878. Original grey printed wrappers. First Edition of Oscar Wilde's first book, the Newdigate Prize-winning poem that he wrote while a student at Magdalen College. To quote from Pearson: He [Wilde] left Oxford.....
By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition, consisting of 1000 regular copies (so stated; there were also 100 signed copies on Van Gelder paper, plus twelve signed copies on Japan vellum). This was the fourth and.....
