[Wilde, Oscar] COLLECTIONS OF LETTERS BY WILDE TO LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS AND ROBERT ROSS, TOGETHER WITH WORKS BY DOUGLAS AND ROSS: Wilde, Oscar. After Reading. Letters...to Robert Ross. Beaumont Press, 1921, one of 400 on handmade paper, inscribed by Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland to the literary barrister Edward Haynes, autograph letter signed by Holland to Haynes loosely inserted (21 April 1921); with another issue of the same; After Berneval. Letters...to Robert Ross. Beaumont Press, 1922, one of 75 on vellum, also a presentation copy by Holland to Haynes; with another issue of the same; Letters...to Alfred Douglas. San Francisco: for William Andrews Clark Jr, 1924, with facsimiles, one of 225 copies for private distribution; Letters to the Sphinx. 1930, limited to 275 copies signed by the "Sphinx" Ada Leverson--Douglas, Lord Alfred. Poèmes. Paris, 1896, wrappers, with autograph letter signed by the author in pocket at the end, discussing his suppression of the book; The City of the Soul. 1899, autograph letter by the author tipped-in, about his sonnets; Sonnets. The Academy Publishing Company, 1909, presentation copy inscribed by the author to "Mrs Lamont", autograph letter signed to recipient loosely inserted; Oscar Wilde and Myself. 1914, dust-jacket; Nine Poems. Private printed for A.J.A. Symons, 1926, limited to 50 copies, this one inscribed by Symons to Frank Nutt; The Collected Satires. Fortune Press, 1926, limited to 550 copies, additionally signed by Douglas; and other ephemera, including an anti-Semitic speech made at the Memorial Hall ("The Truth about the Battle of Jutland and the Jews")--Harris, Frank and Lord Alfred Douglas. New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde". Fortune Press, [1925], presentation copy inscribed by Douglas to his son Raymond; this housed with the second edition, 1927; and nine others, including two further inscribed presentation copies of works by Douglas, and two copies of Ross's Masques & Phases (later editions, one an inscribed presentation copy, one with an autograph letter loosely inserted); various sizes, chiefly first editions, original bindings, some preserved in slipcases or specially made boxes (23)
[Wilde, Oscar] COLLECTIONS OF LETTERS BY WILDE TO LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS AND ROBERT ROSS, TOGETHER WITH WORKS BY DOUGLAS AND ROSS: Wilde, Oscar. After Reading. Letters...to Robert Ross. Beaumont Press, 1921, one of 400 on handmade paper, inscribed by Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland to the literary barrister Edward Haynes, autograph letter signed by Holland to Haynes loosely inserted (21 April 1921); with another issue of the same; After Berneval. Letters...to Robert Ross. Beaumont Press, 1922, one of 75 on vellum, also a presentation copy by Holland to Haynes; with another issue of the same; Letters...to Alfred Douglas. San Francisco: for William Andrews Clark Jr, 1924, with facsimiles, one of 225 copies for private distribution; Letters to the Sphinx. 1930, limited to 275 copies signed by the "Sphinx" Ada Leverson--Douglas, Lord Alfred. Poèmes. Paris, 1896, wrappers, with autograph letter signed by the author in pocket at the end, discussing his suppression of the book; The City of the Soul. 1899, autograph letter by the author tipped-in, about his sonnets; Sonnets. The Academy Publishing Company, 1909, presentation copy inscribed by the author to "Mrs Lamont", autograph letter signed to recipient loosely inserted; Oscar Wilde and Myself. 1914, dust-jacket; Nine Poems. Private printed for A.J.A. Symons, 1926, limited to 50 copies, this one inscribed by Symons to Frank Nutt; The Collected Satires. Fortune Press, 1926, limited to 550 copies, additionally signed by Douglas; and other ephemera, including an anti-Semitic speech made at the Memorial Hall ("The Truth about the Battle of Jutland and the Jews")--Harris, Frank and Lord Alfred Douglas. New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde". Fortune Press, [1925], presentation copy inscribed by Douglas to his son Raymond; this housed with the second edition, 1927; and nine others, including two further inscribed presentation copies of works by Douglas, and two copies of Ross's Masques & Phases (later editions, one an inscribed presentation copy, one with an autograph letter loosely inserted); various sizes, chiefly first editions, original bindings, some preserved in slipcases or specially made boxes (23)
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