Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest - A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St James's Theatre, London, 1895. Annotated and Illustrated from Contemporary Sources.
by WILDE, Oscar. DONOHUE, Joseph and BERGGREN, Ruth (edit and introduce)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross., 1995. First edition. The Princess Grace Irish Library 10. Oblong quarto. 376 pages. Copiously illustrated. Full tan buckram covers.Spine bruised at head. One corner bruised. Very good indeed in near fine dustwrapper at little creased at spine and top edge.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WILDEOSC009921
- Title
- Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest - A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St James's Theatre, London, 1895. Annotated and Illustrated from Contemporary Sources.
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar. DONOHUE, Joseph and BERGGREN, Ruth (edit and introduce)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross.
- Date Published
- 1995
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