Wilde (Oscar). Pamphlets. A handsomely bound volume in blue ...

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Wilde (Oscar). Pamphlets. A handsomely bound volume in blue morocco gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled e.p.’s, armorial bookplate of CALM (?), containing the following pamphlets by Wilde, each with front cover (only) bound in:
-       Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf.  L’Envoi. Printed for private circulation, 1904, no. 107 of 200 copies, pp. 30;
-       Children In Prison and other Cruelties of Prison Life, L., Murdoch 1898, pp. 16;
-       Impressions of America, ed. Stuart Mason, Keystone Press, Sunderland 1906, one of 500 copies, 40 pp;
-       Wilde v Whistler, being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art. L. , privately printed 1906, pp. 20;
-       Poems in Prose.  Paris, privately printed 1905, one of 50 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, 38 pp.
A fine collection, well presented. All the items are scarce, the second particularly so. (1)