Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study
by Ransome, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1913). Hardcover. Occasional pencil markings.; vii, [1], (9)-234, [2] pages + [4], 8 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 169 x 103mm. Third edition. Methuen's Shilling Library. A study of Oscar Wilde's writings. This edition, like the second edition, has some passages excised that were present in the original 1912 Secker & Warburg edition. "In bringing out this new edition I have considered the question of reprinting the book in its original form, as I have a perfect right to do, but as a I do not consider that the passages complained of are essential to the critical purpose of my book I have decided, in order to spare the feelings of those who might be pained by the further publication of those passages, to omit them from this edition." - from the Author's "Note to Second Edition". Contents: Introductory; Biographical Summary; Poems; Aestheticism; Miscellaneous Prose; Intentions; The Theatre; Disaster; De Profundis; 1897-1900; Afterthought. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18268
- Title
- Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study
- Author
- Ransome, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1913)
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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