The Birthday of the Infanta
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1928.
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Alaistair. Large quarto. Rebound in contemporary red pebble-grain cloth gilt with cyclone-themed endpapers. Errata slip tipped-in. Modest rubbing else near fine. Copy number 64 of 100 numbered copies. The tragic story of a dwarf hired to entertain a young princess on her birthday.
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Oscar Wilde
birth name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
born: 10/16/1854
died: 11/30/1900
nationality: Ireland
Biography
Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th Century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore