The Picture of Dorian Gray A Play in Three Acts and Prologue From the Romance of Oscar Wilde

by Grace Constant Lounsbery; Oscar Wilde

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First edition · In dust jacket

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1913. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Fair. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A scarce first edition dramatisation of Oscar Wilde s seminal novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted for the stage by Grace Constant Lounsbery, with a Rex Whistler bookplate. An excellent first edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Play in Three Acts, by Grace Constant Lounsbery, published in 1913 by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton and Kent and printed at the Ballantyne Press.Bound in the publisher s original cloth binding with gilt illustrations. Scarce with the original dust wrapper. Lounsbery was an American author, poet and playwright. Prolific among the early twentieth-century Parisian literary circle, Gertrude Stein once wrote of having a romantic relationship with Lounsbery. She often hosted events at her Parisian salon, some of which Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound are known to have attended.Her dramatisation of Wilde s novel completments her rebellious corpus of work, including her radical, politically-charged poem, Satan Unbound. This copy with an exquisite bookplate to the front paste down, designed by Rex Whistler. A fantastic, gothic scene incorporating elements of classical and biblical mythology. Includes his monogram RJW to the lower right corner, dated 1925.The bookplate is that of Whistler s associate, Ronald Fuller of Merton College Oxford, with his inscrption to the front free, dated May 18th 1924. Ronald Fuller went on to co-

• Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.
• Year: 1913
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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