About this title: This is the tragic story of Oscar Wilde, an accomplished comic writer, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society. The music is by Widor, Curzon, Dvorak, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Chabrier.
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Description: Very Good. As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, some soiling to the rear cover, reading crease along spine edge of front cover, and other light shopwear. read more
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd., London
Date Published: 1949
Description: Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library, Minimal Stamping Yellow cover with brown lettering on spine and green decoration on upper board significantly soiled with sun faded and nicked spine. Age spotting to page block, prelims and page edges. Pages are clean. Light dust tanning to top of page block. Front and back inner paper hinges are torn. Library plate on front inside cover. Illustrated with monochrome plates from photographs. read more
Edition: First Cheap Edition
Binding: Hardback with dustwrapper
Publisher: Methuen & Co
Date Published: 1954
Description: Very Good Plus. in Good jacket. Some shelf wear. Wrapper price clipped. 399pp including index. Illustrated with mono photographs. read more
Binding: hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket
Publisher: Methuen & Co, publishers, London
Date Published: 1946
Description: Page edges and protected jacket have foxing. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. 390 pages. Helped by the records of those who met Oscar Wilde when he dominated social and theatrical London, the author has added much fresh material of his own, having collected information from those who knew Wilde well-notably the actor-managers who produced his plays (Sir Herbert Tree, Sir George Alexander). Sepia photographic portrait of Wilde as frontispiece, and 14 other sephia photos, and index. read more
Description: Good. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Some creasing to covers & spine, page edges are browning. No Inscriptions. Contents otherwise clean & sound. 399pp Illustrated in b/w. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen & Co
Date Published: 1947
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. Cover stained. Binding cocked., 650grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Methuen, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: Cover scuffed through use and inside binding torn. Hardback, Ex-Library, with usual stamps markings, in fair to good all-round condition, no dust jacket, 389pages., 600grams, ISBN: read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Methuen, Great Britain
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 399 pages with index, few b/w photos. If interested a more complete description can be supplied. 1Copy. read more
Description: 1954. Methuen. 6th reprint. Book-Good, spine browned and pencil annotations throughout. Green flower on the front cover. Frontis b/w plate. 15 b/w plates throughout. 7.5 x 5. 340pp. read more
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