The only copy we have seen. Small abrasion to the front wrap resulting in a bump to the first several pages and a small light crease to the bottom corner else fine in glossy wrappers. Once relatively common, this prepublication state of the author's first novel seems to have largely disappeared from the market. This is a clean and presentable, very nice copy. Octavo sheet folded vertically, and written on four sides, folded horizontally once, presumably as mailed.
Old tape shadows on last page, otherwise sound and very good.
At the urging of Forbes-Robertson, a literary relation of a noted English theatrical family, Wilde took up playwriting in an attempt to secure fame and fortune. I shouldn't have been able to write. He mentions that Modjeska has asked him to adapt a play for her, probably Luisa Miller . I feel burned out. An insightful look into Wilde as an ambitious, self-doubting young man.