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Wilde, Oscar.

The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. [Preface by Robert Ross].

London: Methuen for Mr. George Alexander, 1910. Presentation Edition of 1,200 copies. 8vo., pp. x, [vi], 181, green cloth, gilt rules front cover, gilt lettering, t.e.g. others untrimmed. Names of two previous owners ffe. Covers lightly scuffed, edges browned, very small tear (without loss) head pp. 7-14, else very nice, bright copy. On front cover, "Presentated by Mr. George Alexander As a Souvenir of His Twentieth Year of Management of the St. James's Theatre February 1st, 1910". Sir George (knighted 1911) created the part of John Worthing and continued to manage St. James' s until the year of his death in 1918.

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