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Oscar Wilde's copy with his signature on title

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Description

Heading: (Wilde, Oscar, his book)
Author: Calverley, C.S.
Title: Fly Leaves
Place Published: Cambridge
Publisher:Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Date Published: 1873
Description:

(8vo) original cloth; custom red morocco pull-off case with gilt lettering on spine and raised bands. Third edition.

Oscar Wilde's copy with his signature on title page dated "Michaelmas 1873", his final year at Trinity College, Dublin. A fitting book to have been in Wilde's collection, C.S. Calverley (1831-1884) was a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge and a wit best-remembered for his odes to beer and smokes. ;Additional provenance: ;Daniel Henry Holmes (1851-1908), retail heir and poet of Covington, KY, and New Orleans (bookplate on case dated December 1906 in manuscript); Carlos Sanz de Santamaria (1905-1992), Ambassador of Colombia to the US and Representative to the UN (bookplate on front free endpaper).

Condition

Rubbing to box at extremities, mild sunning; volume shows slight bumps at spine ends, light rubbing with a few minor stains and with light soiling; binding shaken with internal cracks; very good.

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Oscar Wilde's copy with his signature on title

Name: Oscar Wilde's copy with his signature on title
SKU: 134603096
Price: 7000 USD
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