The Paradox Of Oscar Wilde.
£30.00
Publisher
T. V. Boardman and Co. Ltd. 14 Cockspur Street, S.W.1.
Place
London
Date
1949
Synopsis
Illustrated by drawings from toulose-lautrec, aubrey beardsley, george du maurier, sir william rothenstein and punch.
Item Description
8vo. 9.75 x 5.75 inches. 239 pp. List of Works by George Woodcock tipped in. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear and small tears, including corners and head and tail of spine. Occasional traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. 1949 signature on front pastedown. Illustrated by 7 black and white plates, including frontispiece. A biography which examines the connections between Oscar Wilde's life and work by Canadian born George Woodcock (1912-95), writer of political biography and travel books, who was also a poet, pacifist, conscientious objector and anarchist thinker. He taught in the English department of the University of British Columbia from 1955 to the 1970s.
[Stock No. 30227]
