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Lot 103
Sale 2721 - Books & Manuscripts
May 28, 2020
9:00AM ET
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$438
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[Literature] Wilde, Oscar De Profundis
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1949). First unabridged edition. 8vo. (148) pp. Inscribed by editor and Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, on front free endpaper: "From Vyvyan/to/C.J./who censored the/introduction, I am/glad to say./October 1949." Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, slightly cocked; all edges trimmed; in original dust-jacket, spine darkened, covers spotted, creasing and chipping along edges, two repairs on verso; in fall-down-back box; for Asprey & Garrard.