Oscar Wilde and Myself, Lord Alfred Douglas, Duffield & Company, 1914, HC, VG.

Douglas, Lord Alfred. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 8 3/4" x 5 3/4", 306 pp.

Green cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, minor wear to edges and tips, some soiling to front cover, title page verso, and pages 49, 23, 107, small closed tear to pages 87-88, binding starting to open between some signatures, otherwise, clean, and unmarked throughout. [v] xiii, [3] 306 pp. Includes thirteen black-and-white illustrations, Preface, List of Illustrations, Introduction, Index, and XXVIII (28) chapters including "My Letters to Wilde," "'The Picture of Dorian Gray'," "To Be Done With It All," and much more. Written by English poet, author, and journalist, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945) who was a known friend and lover of Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). This biography was written in denial of his and Wilde's relationship in light of Wilde's letter "De Profundis," written whilst he was imprisoned for "gross indecency."