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Lot 265
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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Live / New York
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$8,000 -
12,000
Price Realized
$21,590
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Lot Description
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
London, New York, etc.: Ward Lock and Co., 1891. Deluxe first edition, #43/250 copies signed by Wilde. 8vo. (ii), vii, (i), 334 pp. Superbly bound in full modern crimson morocco, finely decorated in silver, black, and in gilt, with a gilt stamped portrait of Wilde on front board, lettered in gilt and in silver on rear board; edges stained teal with gilt speckling; full black French chagrin doublures: front doublure decorated in gilt, red, and blue, rear doublure decorated with gilt and leather mosaic onlay depicting a "grotesque" style mirror-portrait of Wilde; gray reverse calf endleaves; marbled and red paper front and rear blanks; in black gilt morocco and marbled suede-lined slip case and chemise; housed in grey linen slip case and chemise; by Robert Wu, Toronto, 2019; minor spotting to text. Binders typed specs and letter laid in.
Rare signed deluxe edition of Oscar Wilde's only novel, exquisitely bound by Robert Wu.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.



