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In Excelsis

by DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

London: Martin Secker, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [6], 7-45. Bound in light yellow cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt. Offsetting to endpapers. In the printed dust jacket that shows age-toning to verso and spine. Of an edition limited to 100 copies, this is hand-numbered copy 97 and is signed by the man of letters "Alfred Bruce Douglas" A sonnet written by Wilde's on-again/off-again paramour while incarcerated at Wormwood Scrubs Prison for libelling Winston Churchill. Having converted to Catholicism, the experience softened his once-firm rejection of Wilde and homosexuality.

  • Publisher: Martin Secker
  • Year: 1924
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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