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Unpag., quarto, cloth with gold, lavishly illustrated and decorated by Alastair, hand-made paper, this edition is limited to 1'000 copies and cannot be reprinted as the stones from which offset plates were printed were in Belgium at the time of the German invasion and were destroyed. Sprache(n)/language(s): deCover with sight traces of wear, otherwise fine.

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.