From Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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About this Item
First edition. Thick octavo. Eight b/w portraits. Original gilt and blind stamped purple cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped; few tiny tears). Very good (light foxing mostly to edges). 314 pages + 31 publisher's catalog bound in at end, dated November 25, 1914. No signatures or bookplates. Includes chapters on Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Carlyle, Maeterlinck, Burton, Robert Browning, Swinburne, Rodin, John Davidson and others. Back panel of jacket has advertisement for "The Works of Oscar Wilde" in 14 volumes. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh. Seller Inventory # 2221511
Bibliographic Details
Title: Contemporary Portraits
Publisher: Methuen & Co. Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1915
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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