After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Very Good and sound overall.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. Some minor shelf wear, white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine, short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text, old ink spot affecting first few leaves, else interior fine. In publisher's two-toned cloth (white over blue), upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, unadorned spine. Tucker and Emma Goldman were two of the few Americans to publicly defend Wilde during his trial (George Haggerty, Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures (2013), page 52. Tucker, the noted anarchist publisher and editor of the journal Liberty, in which Tucker published the essay "The Criminal Jailers of Oscar Wilde" in 1895. Is it possible that what Horodisch thought a deluxe issue is merely error, some of which made it to the wild? Issued by Benjamin R. A printer's binder's issue is extant, as at least one leaf is hinged at the top edge. This copy comports with the first state, with text printed one side only. It is therefore clear that they are not two independent editions, but the one-side issue constitutes merely a kind of de-luxe variety, while the two-sided is a cheaper, popular version of the same edition" (Horodisch, pages 76-77). This edition was published in two states, the first in which the text appears on rectos only and some leaves are untrimmed in the second the text is printed on rectos and versos: "Both editions, that printed on one side and that printed on both sides, are from the same type.
Preceded by the Brentano's edition (circa 1898) though often considered the first American edition.
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