OSCAR WILDE A Present Time Appraisal by St John Ervine - 1951

N.Y., William Morrow, 1952. The Irish playwright whose naturalistic plays were performed at the Abbey Theatre takes on the ironic drawing-room writer whose plays couldn't appear there at all. Hard Cover. 336 pages; 22 cm. Good+, covers soiled/ no dj. Stock#30263.

LONDON: ALLEN & UNWIN, 1951 Green cloth with black lettering to spine.336pp + 6 of publisher's adverts. An absorbing biography in which Ervine set out to judge Wilde not as a subject for pity or reproach, but as a Writer and especially as a Dramatist. Book clean - no insc. It has the usual brown band on the feps between the d/j flap and the spine associated with books of this age and very slight foxing to fore edges of pages. Attractive book plate to pasted down fep. The Dust Jacket is in exceptional condition - not price clipped 5mm closed tear to rear bottom spine fold and very slight foxing to rear flap at fore edge o/w wise bright and clean in clear proprietary protective cover. PLS see our image

George Allen & Unwin, 1951. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (small nicks at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 336 (previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and neat inscription on front free endpaper).

George Allen & Unwin, 1951. 336pp, green cloth covered boards, faded to spine. Bookplate to inner board, otherwise internally very clean. A biography and appraisal of Wilde's work, by a playwright.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.