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TypeNotice
CollectionLord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publication nameSheffield Evening Telegraph
Publication dateYear 1896Month 01Day 20
ArchiveBritish Newspapers Archive (accessed 18 June 2026)
Contributed byRegina M. Ponciano
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SALE OF WILDE'S WORKS. At a sale of books in London on Saturday, a number of first editions of Oscar Wilde's works were disposed of. Prices ruled very low. The principal items were:—Newdigate Prize Poem, 'Ravenna,' original wrapper, recited in the theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878, 7s.; 'The Picture of Dorian,' [sic] 1891, 7s; another copy one of 250 with the author's signature, 1891, 15s.; 'The Sphinx,' one of 250 copies, 1894, 38s.; 'Lady Windermere's Fan,' 1893, 14s.; 'A Woman of No Importance,' 1894, 10s. The following in one lot, realised £1 1s.: 'Intentions,' 'The Decay of Lying,' 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,' 'Aristophanes at Oxford,' and another.