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“After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross”
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After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, by Oscar Wilde. Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. First edition. Hardcover Limied...
Sixteen Letters from Oscar Wilde
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SIXTEEN LETTERS FROM OSCAR WILDE. Edited and with Notes by John Rothenstein. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930. First Edition. Limited...
Connie Willis Signed Rare First Edition “Doomsday Book”
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This rare true first edition, first printing had an extremely small print run, believed to be between 800-2,000 copies. This...
The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas Signed First Edition
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The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas. First edition, first printing. Martin Secker, 1929. 8vo, dark blue vertically ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered...
Alfred Douglas Autograph Letter Signed To Critic Philip Page
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Autograph Letter Signed “Bosie,” single page, 7 x 9, Sussex, England: June 4, 1940. Fine. To literary critic Philip "Peter"...
Frank Harris Signed First Edition of “Oscar Wilde: His Life & Confessions” by Alfred Douglas
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First Edition, First Printing of Frank Harris's 1918 two-volume biography Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions, with an Introduction by...
Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis Numbered Limited Edition
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An extraordinary limited edition facsimile of the original manuscript of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis—a long, harrowing letter written to his...
Signed Etching of Walt Whitman
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An extraordinary etching made and signed by Jacques Reich from the last photograph ever taken of Walt Whitman, by Thomas...
Autograph Letter Signed to Pulitzer
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Autograph Letter Signed by renowned science fiction author H.G. Wells to American publisher Ralph Pulitzer. 1pp, undated, London, in fine...
Walt Whitman Autograph Letter Signed Framed with Leaves of Grass
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Written from his home in Camden, New Jersey, on March 7, 1882, this Autograph Letter Signed was sent by Walt...