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Importance of Being Earnest
Barry Humphries' Oscar Wilde First Edition Sold for £138,600
February 14, 2025
The Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection sale at Christie's has realised a total of £4,627,224 from a variety of lots of books, art, and Dame Ed
Inscribed Copy of “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Bonhams
May 13, 2014
A specially printed copy of The Importance of Being Earnest inscribed by Oscar Wilde to Major James Nelson, the Governor of Reading Gaol during the writer’s term of imprisonment there is to be sold
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