The Picture of Dorian Gray, OSCAR WILDE, 1890

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1890
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray, in: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, No. 271, pp. 1-100. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, July 1890.

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

The first appearance of Wilde's most famous story, in the rarer American issue with fine wrappers. The book was printed in America but published in Philadelphia and London simultaneously, on 20 June 1890. J.M. Stoddard, the American publisher of Lippincott's, had traveled to London in the fall of 1889 in search of new material. He procured not only Dorian Gray but also Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of Four. Mason 82.

Octavo (238 x 157mm). 24 pages of advertisements at beginning and 26 pages at end. Original wrappers printed in red and black (mild toning, small chip at foot); custom quarter morocco case.

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