Oscar Wilde: Stories and Fairy Tales
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983.
First Edition. Leather_bound. This limited edition of the great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and stories was exclusively printed for members of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series and features a sumptuous genuine leather binding, all gilt edges, silver silk moire endpapers, an atmospheric frontispiece and 6 illustrations by artist Zevi Blum, title page calligraphy by Michael Starkman, and a silk ribbon placemarker. In these pages, you'll find a fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid with a magical voice and must strike a deal with a cave-dwelling witch to rid himself of his human soul to have her, a beauty-loving king who would rather wear rags than raiment, a falling star and a sinister babe abandoned in a wood, a giant and his beautiful walled garden beset by children, and so much more...This 1983 Franklin Library edition collects fairy tales and stories from the following collections: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and A House of Pomegranates.
9 1/8" X 5 1/8". 232pp. Bound in full slate blue genuine leather over boards, with decorations stamped in gilt to boards and spine. Five raised bands to spine, lettered in gilt. Very mild wear to binding, with very gentle bumping to corners and to head and tail of spine. All edges gilt, with rather prominent scuffing to edges. Silk moire endpapers. Gray silk ribbon placemarker. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable leatherbound, illustrated edition of these collected stories and fairy tales by Oscar Wilde. Very good. Item #17465
Price: $75.00