WILDE, Oscar. Impressions of America.

Edited, with an introduction by Stuart Mason. Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906. First edition. Octavo. pp. 40. Recent full brown morocco, title in gilt along spine. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy in an attractive binding.
Oscar Wilde’s celebrated American lecture tour of 1882 brought him to more than one hundred cities across the United States and Canada, where his wit, flamboyance, and advocacy of the Aesthetic Movement attracted enormous public attention. Impressions of America gathers Wilde’s observations on American society, culture, politics, and manners, revealing both his sharp powers of observation and his characteristic humour. Edited by Stuart Mason (Christopher Millard), Wilde’s first bibliographer and one of the foremost authorities on his life and work, this posthumous publication remains an important addition to the Wilde canon. Scarce in commerce, it offers a fascinating glimpse of Wilde’s impressions of the New World at the outset of his literary career.
Includes two previously unpublished poems by Wilde and a preface by Stuart Mason.

[Cat 164]