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(ALASTAIR) WILDE, Oscar.
The Sphinx.
Illustrated and Decorated by Alastair.
Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head; New York, John Lane Company, 1920
Stock code: 73548
Price: £500 Currency Conversion
First Alastair edition, first impression.
Tall quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial decoration to upper board in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece, 10 plates, and decorative initials by Alastair. Binding a little rubbed and dulled, corners bumped, spine tanned, marks to lower board, free endpapers tanned, plate facing page 34 partially separated from contents. A very good copy.
