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RENIER, G. J. Oscar Wilde.

London. Issued to Subscribers by Peter Davies, 1933. First edition.
8vo. Limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 489, signed by the author.xi, [1], 184pp. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's cream cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Without glassine dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Bookplate of Lionel Brett and ticket of Blackwell's, Oxford to FEP.
The first edition of Dutch historian Gustaaf Johannes Renier's (1892-1962) succinct biography of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), limited to five hundred copies.
£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 28495