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Who knows... : Smithers/Wright and Jones, 1904. First Edition, softcover of 64 pages, stated 'Privately printed'. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-grey wrappers. First edition of this collection, 127 of 300 numbered copies. The wrappers a little soiled and there has been some tissue repair to the spine. Loss to one corner. A comic ghost story and two further societal studies, published by Leonard Smithers, or by Wright & Jones, after Wilde's death in 1900.

About The Sphinx

The Sphinx is a one-act play written by Oscar Wilde. It's a dramatic monologue by a woman who laments the absence of her lover, who has died. The richness of the symbolic imagery intertwines themes of love with the mystery of the Sphinx.