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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Later Printing. (viii) 153 pp. Glossy pictorial boards; illustrated with line drawings. Lightly rubbed at the corners; no interior markings. Size: 8vo. Book.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Importance of Being a Wit. Oscar Wilde was the master of the studied insult so perfect the victim was often proud to have occasioned it. His scathing wit is as fresh today as when it was first minted. His thrusts at hyporcrisy, pretension and boring conventionality still have the power to pierce windy pomposity. Wilde's aphorisms, paradoxes and put-downs were repeated with delight - not least by Wilde himself who had an artist's pride in his work. But as Oscar said: 'There's only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about'. Illustrations. 153 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.