Books

A. Works by the Author: 1. Lady Windermere s Fan - A Play About A Good Woman. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909. First Edition thus, First Printing. Vol. 4112. Name, date and bookseller's label on front free endpaper, else a near fine copy in original boards. 2. A Woman Of No Importance - A Play. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909. First Edition thus, First Printing. Vol. 4157. Name on title page, else a near fine copy in original boards. 3. De Profundis - The Complete Text. Edited, with an Introduction, by Vyvyan Holland. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949. First Edition, Fourth Printing (1953). A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. 4. The Original Four-Act Version of The Importance Of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. With an Explanatory Foreword by Vyvyan Holland. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Proof Copy. Book is near fine in the original printed wrappers. On the front someone has written price and month of publication and on the spine author and title, the lower wrapper is unevenly darkened, but not creased in any way. 5. Salome. Newly translated by R. A. Walker and with the original illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Heinemann, 1957. First Edition thus, First Printing. A very good copy in a similar dustwrapper. 6. The Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. A near fine copy in a similar dustwrapper, which is foxed on the spine. 7. More Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. London: John Murray, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 8. The Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Harold Jones. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1985. First Edition thus, First Printing in Paperback. A near fine copy. B. Works on the Author: 1. Hesketh Pearson. The Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1946. First Edition, First Printing. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. 2. Vyvyan Holland. Son of Oscar Wilde. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 3. H. Montgomery Hyde. Oscar Wilde - A Biography. London: Eyre Methuen, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. 4. Richard Ellmann. Oscar Wilde. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Price for the collection: 1'350. Please note that due to size and weight we will have to charge additional postage.

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It explores themes of English upper class society and highlights the double standards between men and women during the Victorian era.