A Woman Of No Importance

by Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?

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Boston: Walter H. Baker/John W. Luce, 1906. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition. States Luce as publisher on the title page but Baker on the front panel. Very good in stapled wrappers with wear along the spine, a circle stain on the front panel, light age-toning.
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London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, one of 500 copies only printed. Octavo in lavender cloth decorated in gilt and with spine lettered in gilt. Fore edges uncut. 154 pp. plus 16 pp. of adverts for List of Books in Belles Lettres. This copy bears the rather scarce small publisher's bookplate on the… Read more about this item
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London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end (dated March 1894), Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts,… Read more about this item
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Small 4to. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1894. Small 4to, [xiv], 154, [1] pp. Original salmon buckram, covers with gilt-stamped decorations, gilt top, backstrip lettered and stamped in gilt, some browning throughout as usual, binding a bit soiled but good. § First edition (though there were 15 copies printed for the production of the play in New… Read more about this item
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1894. Shannon, Charles. London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894. 16 pp ads dated March 1894. Original violet cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of Wilde's satirical play about upper-class social scandal, which consisted of 500 copies (so stated -- half as many copies as the following year's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST). Wilde… Read more about this item
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London: John Lane, 1894. Limited. hardcover. very good. Tall 8vo ,lavender cloth, faded to tan, with gilt designs, considerably browned on the spine and edges; pages untrimmed, London: John Lane, 1894. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> Mason, 365. One of only 50 copies, printed simultaneously with the first trade edition. Internally fine and clean.<br/><br/>
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London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head,, 1894. Epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation First edition, one of 500 copies in the trade issue, from a total edition of 550 copies. The opening show of this satirical play on English manners was greeted with applause for the actors and boos for the playwright, causing Wilde to… Read more about this item
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