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10mo, [viii], 9-[46] pages; G-/G-; original pictorial boards, orange dust jacket with black designs; backstrip loose but present; publisher's dust jacket with front cover, rear cover, and both flaps present but separated from each other, spine missing; notoriously fragile, with this copy being no exception; CX consignment; shelved case 0. In 1904, Charles Ricketts presented the Sphinx manuscript to Robbie Ross, who then gifted it to the British Museum. Before doing so, he published this smaller format with his own notes.; 1346240. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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.