OSCAR WILDE - SELECTED WORKS [WITH 12 UNPUBLISHED LETTERS]

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Includes twelve previously unpublished letters and a thirty-one page introduction by Richard Aldington, including 'some dates in the life of Oscar Wilde'. ***Very good in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Buff-coloured endpapers. No inscriptions. Fore-edge and top edge of text-block slightly foxed, not affecting interior pages. Corners of back board slightly bumped. In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 15 s. net. Edges of dustwrapper nicked, rubbed and creased with a few tiny closed tears. Slight loss to head and tail of spine of dustwrapper.***553 pages including eleven pages of unpublished letters to rear. Includes example of Oscar Wilde's handwriting.***220 mm x 148 mm.***'The time has come, Richard Aldington rightly says, to forget the controversial personal issues which have done nothing but obscure the importance of his work, and to judge Oscar Wilde as a creative artist of the first order. He has made a selection which may well be permanently regarded as the best of Wilde. It includes "The Critic as an Artist", "Salome", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "De Profundis", together with an assembly of some of the better and the lesser known verse, as well as a collection of letters and anecdotes, many of them published in this volume for the first time. Richard Aldington's introduction is forthright and provocative in its assessment of Wilde's rightful place in English literature.***Uncommon in the fragile post-war dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de ref. del artículo 1732

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