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Signed Book “My Friendship With Oscar Wilde”
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Hard-to-find, signed and numbered copy of the 1932 hardcover book, My Friendship With Oscar Wilde: Being the Autobiography of Lord...
Signed Book “Complete Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas”
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LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945) The Complete Works of Lord Alfred Douglas Publisher: Martin Secker, London Publication Date: 1928 Binding: Hard...
“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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Lord Alfred Douglas “Bosie” Autograph Letter Signed to Literary Critic Philip Page — Discussing His Poetry — 1940 Lord Alfred...
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...