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An Ideal Husband
by WILDE, Oscar
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Smithers, 1899. Limited. hardcover. very good. [16], 214 pages. Square 8vo, original lavender cloth with gilt decorations on covers, uncut edges. London: Leonard Smithers 1899. Limited First Edition. Some minor soiling & bubbling on the cover but still a very good(+) internally clean copy of this exceedingly rare book.<br/> <br/> One of Wilde's most frequently produced plays. Number 38 of only 100 large-paper copies, signed by Wilde. Preserved in a 1/4 leather clam-shell case.<br/> <br/>
Synopsis
From the book:The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 295434
- Title
- An Ideal Husband
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Smithers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
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About the Seller
Argosy Book Store
Biblio member since 2004
New York, New York
About Argosy Book Store
We are a large retail store, with 6 floors of out-of-print and rare books, (including, Americana, modern first editions, history of medicine and science), antique maps and prints, autograph manuscripts, letters & signatures.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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