The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

$60,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. Signed limited first edition. xii , 152 pp. Bound in publisher's original pale lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Copy number 82 of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde with a flourish. Near Fine with subtle sunning, several barely discernible spots to cloth, short bubble to rear cloth. Typical offsetting to endpapers, and a 5

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