WILDE, OSCAR

Poems [Modern Library No. 56]

New York: Boni and Liveright, [1923-1925]. Early ML Printing. 16mo. 4.25 x 6.625 in. [vi], 275, [1] pp. ML Binding Style 3, dark green 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with monk scribe device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; Brodzky endpapers. Black & white frontis. drawing of Oscar Wilde. Very good. Some creasing to leatherette covers, with some cracking to front pastedown, as typical with early ML editions; moderate rubbing to edges of spine. Binding square & tight, text clean & bright. Lacking dust jacket.

North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his ownership signature to front flyleaf.

Price: $40.00