[RAYMOND, JEAN PAUL; RICKETTS, CHARLES]. Oscar Wilde Recollections. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932.
FIRST LIMITED EDITION, number 447 of 800 copies, hand-numbered on the limitation page. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; tall octavo (26 x 16 x 1 cm); pp. 60, [4]. English text, with an Introductory Note by Thomas Lowinsky, the typography by Francis Meynell. Bound in publisher's decorative covers with pictorially gilt designs by Charles Ricketts; supplied with the original black dust jacket; top page edges gilt, other edges unevenly cut; title-page rubricated. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the covers remaining very clean. Interior with a touch of browning and spotting mostly to the endpapers. The dust jacket with mild edge wear and tear. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.
Notes: Of 800 numbered copies printed by Geo. W. Jones at The Dolphin Press this is one of 600 for distribution in England - the remaining 200 were sold by Random House in America. The memoir was wholly the work of Charles Ricketts, the fictional Jean Paul Raymond being a literary artifice.
