Item #028888 Oscar Wilde, Three Times Tried (Limited to 999 Copies of Which This is Number #7). Oscar Wilde, John Sholto Douglas Queensberry, Alfred Taylor.
Oscar Wilde, Three Times Tried (Limited to 999 Copies of Which This is Number #7)

Oscar Wilde, Three Times Tried (Limited to 999 Copies of Which This is Number #7)

Paris; Nd(ca.1915): Privately Printed. Limited Edition. Octavo. Item #028888

Limited to 999 copies. The present copy is number 7. Mostly unopened. In two volumes, continuous pagination, 432 pages. The original edition was published in 1912 in London but Wilde's case which became more widely discussed because of his open homosexual lifestyle that associated not only with Lord Douglas but also of the lower-class types which raised the stakes for the prosecutors. Bound in maroon cloth, paper spine labels lettered in black, spine ends warn, inner hinges weakened and appear to have been reglued. A good set.

Price: $375.00