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Wilde, Oscar.
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories.
Publisher: The Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2013
Stock Code: 12112
FIRST THUS. Crown Quarto, pp. xix, [1], 172. Colour frontispiece and five additional coloured plates. Bound in publishers’ teal cloth with pictorial upper board; and silver titles and illustration to spine; blue & silver patterned end-papers. Housed in a silver slipcase. An exceptionally clean & neat copy with no annotations or inscriptions; appears unread. Just a few barely visible surface scratches to slipcase. Near fine. A children’s classic imaginatively illustrated by Grahame Baker Smith. With eight other allegorical fairy stories by Wilde including “The Happy Prince”, “The Star Child”, and “The Fisherman and His Soul”. £85.00