The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
HOLLAND, Merlin & Rupert HART-DAVIS (eds)
ISBN 10: 1857027817 ISBN 13: 9781857027815
Published by Fourth Estate, 2000
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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition Thus 2000. Very Thick Royal 8vo. 1296 pp. Several illustrations from photographs, silver endpapers. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Very good in bright gilt lettered crisp royal purple cloth, together with very good unclipped portrait pictorial dustwrapper. Over 1,500 letters collated by Oscar Wilde's grandson, and revealing 'a quite extraodinary classical and philosphical education', infamous wit and the poignancy of his final years. Very heavy volume, incurs additional postage overseas, particualrly outside Europe.
About the Author: Merlin Holland is Oscar Wilde's only grandson. He is a journalist and the author of The Wilde Album (published by Fourth Estate) and the executor of the Wilde estate.Sir Rupert Hart-Davis was well regarded as an editor, and was executor to various literary figures of the mid-century. In 1962, he compiled a collection of Oscar Wilde's letters.
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Title: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st edn.
Book Type: Binding sound, text unmarked
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The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
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ISBN 10: 1857027817
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Vg hardback copy in Vg jacket with faded spine. Thick, heavy book. Overseas shipping may cost extra, up to actual cost of delivery. Not annotated at all. Seller Inventory # 042332
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The complete letters of Oscar Wilde / edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis
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London : Fourth Estate, 2000
ISBN 10: 1857027817
ISBN 13: 9781857027815
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvi, 1270 p., [32]p. of plates. Notes; Includes indexes. Contents; Oxford : 1875-8 -- London I : 1878-81 -- America : 1882 -- London II : 1883-90 -- London III : 1891-95 -- Prison : 1895-7 -- Berneval : 1897 -- Naples : 1897-8 -- Paris : 1898-1900. Subjects; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 ; Correspondence. Fingal O'Flahertie Wills. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Correspondence. Écrivains irlandais 19e siècle ; Correspondance. Authors, Irish. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Biography.Dramatists, Irish 19th century ; Biography. Letters (documents). Novelists. Playwrights. Correspondence Biographical Details Autobiographical Details. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 393987
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The complete letters of Oscar Wilde / edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis
Published by
London : Fourth Estate, 2000
ISBN 10: 1857027817
ISBN 13: 9781857027815
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxvi, 1270 p., [32]p. of plates. Notes; Includes indexes. Contents; Oxford : 1875-8 -- London I : 1878-81 -- America : 1882 -- London II : 1883-90 -- London III : 1891-95 -- Prison : 1895-7 -- Berneval : 1897 -- Naples : 1897-8 -- Paris : 1898-1900. Subjects; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 ; Correspondence. Fingal O'Flahertie Wills. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Correspondence. Écrivains irlandais 19e siècle ; Correspondance. Authors, Irish. Authors, Irish 19th century ; Biography.Dramatists, Irish 19th century ; Biography. Letters (documents). Novelists. Playwrights. Correspondence Biographical Details Autobiographical Details. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 393987
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The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Published by
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ISBN 10: 1857027817
ISBN 13: 9781857027815
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Near fine condition.Fourth Estate,2000.First UK edition-first printing(9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Purple hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small creases,nicks and ink marks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.Nice and clean pages as new but with some large ink marks on the outer edges,a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages,very small mark inside the edge of the front endpaper.Nice and clean book exempt for the ink marks on the outer edges of the pages.1292pp including List of illustrations,chronological table,introduction,manuscript of other locations,list of abbreviations,index of recipients,general index.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition-first printing.Please note: This is very heavy book(approx 2 Kg). Seller Inventory # 7380
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