Wilde, Oscar

Vera; or the Nihilists. Privately printed, [Leonard Smithers], 1902, third (pirated edition), original wrappers bound in, [Mason 624]; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Privately printed [? Smithers], c.1904, pirated edition, limited to 200 copies, original wrappers, [Mason 611]; The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: F.M. Buckles and company, 1907, original cloth; [edition in French] Paris: Falaize, [1952], one of 50 copies on Vélin de Madagascar, original wrappers, glassine; The Soul of Man under Socialism. Arthur Humphreys, 1912, preface by Robert Ross, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ROSS, original red dust-jacket; Impressions of America. Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906, original wrappers; Poems in Prose. Paris: privately printed [Charles Carrington], 1905, pirated edition, one of 50 copies, original wrappers, [Mason 609], housed with edition in French, 1911, yellow wrappers; Poemes en Prose. Paris: C. Carrington, 1906, second pirated edition, original wrappers; all rebound in morocco bindings or housed in similar quarter morocco folding boxes or slipcases (9 works in 8)

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