The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

by Oscar Wilde

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899. First edition, first printing. One of 1,000 copies, unnumbered. xvi , 152 pp., printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations by Charles Shannon. Near Fine with sunning to spine and extremities and fading to spine gilt, light soiling and scattered foxing to cloth, light rubbing to extremities, and slight bumping to lower corners.

• Printing: first

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