Wilde Oscar POEMS IN PROSE 1905 Carrington Paris
Paris: Privately Printed [by Charles Carrington], 1905. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Decorations and initials in red.
Carrington's pirated edition of six short prose vignettes reprinted from the July 1894 issue of THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.
This is the issue on paper; [an issue of fifty numbered copies on Japan paper is noted opposite the title-page].
The texts were re-pirated by Mosher in the US in 1906, and then printed with authorization in Methuen's Collected Edition.
MASON/MILLARD 609. GUACAMOLE 269.
Our copy :
On nice laid paper.
Half-binding with small corners, speckled hard covers predominantly red, orange end papers, Printed wrappers, original soft covers and the back are in the binding, [small number of prints on Japanese imperial paper (pirate edition printed at 50 copies)], 38 pp., stained left side first cover but the book is superb,
EXEMPLARY IN SUPERB CONDITION except the stain (probably water) on the first cover of the book.
OSCAR WILDE
Poems in Prose
A Paris, Privately Printed, 1905
1 vol. in-8 (140x225), demi-reliure à petits coins, plats mouchetés à dominante rouge, p. de gardes orangées, couverture et dos conservés, tirage à petit nombre sur papier impérial du Japon (édition pirate tirée à 50 exemplaire), 38 pp., couverture tâchée mais,
EXEMPLAIRE EN SUPERBE ETAT
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About the Poem :
Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_in_Prose_(Wilde_collection)
