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Happy Prince and Other Tales

SIGNED BY OSCAR WILDE: “WHEN I WAS ALIVE AND HAD A HUMAN HEART,I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TEARS WERE”—THE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITIONOF THE HAPPY PRINCE, ONE OF ONLY 75 LARGE-PAPER COPIES

WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London, 1888. Large-paper limited first edition, number 21 of only 75 copies on handmade paper, signed by Oscar Wilde and the publisher David Nutt. Extraordinarily rare. $48,500.

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Faerie Queene

"GREAT SPENSER’S NOBLE RHYME HAVE I ESSAYED TO PICTURE"

(CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene. London, 1897. Six volumes.

Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester. $5200.

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Faerie Queene

"GREAT SPENSER’S NOBLE RHYME HAVE I ESSAYED TO PICTURE"

(CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Faerie Queene. London, 1897. Six volumes.

Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. $4200.

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Echoes of Hellas

SIGNED BY WALTER CRANE

CRANE, Walter, illustrator. WARR, George C. Echoes of Hellas. London, 1887. Two volumes.

Signed limited first edition of these English adaptations of Homer and Aeschylus, with each of its 82 pages designed and illustrated by Crane in black and red on handmade paper, and with covers and endpapers also decorated by Crane—this copy number 145 of an unknown limitation signed by Crane. Complete with companion volume of music written to accompany the text, signed at a later date (1901) by principal composer Otto Goldschmidt next to his name on the title page. $2800.

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