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Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910

Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910
Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910
Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910
Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910
Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910
Wilde The importance of being Earnest c. 1910

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4 800 SEK

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3 000 SEK

Beskrivning

WILDE, OSCAR. The importance of being Earnest. A trivial comedy for serious people. London - New York, Samuel French, (later printing, ca 1910?). (The Dramatic Works of Oscar Wilde).
8vo (178x115 mm.). Original green printed wrappers with the year printed 1893, on verso printed Acting Rights, bookseller´s label from Boyveau-Chevillet, Paris.
Later half calf with marbled boards, rubbed and worn, faded spine, gilt title to spine.

Later printing, probably from 1910 with the original green wrappers from the 1893 edition.

First trade edition was published in 1899 and the so called "Acting edtion" was published between 1893-95. Earnest was first staged in London, ´at the St. James´s Theatre, on Thursday, February 14th, 1895´.
Bought at Stockholms Auktionsverk, 26, Nov. 1973.

Konditionsrapport

Later printing with original wrappers

Auktionsnummer:

885648

Datum:

2021-03-07