Description: My Friendship with Oscar Wilde, Being the Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas, Coventry House, New York, 1932, 307pp, cloth, 6 x 9.5", 8vo Fair condition. No dust jacket. Some wear and staining to boards. Paper title plate on spine. Bookplate for Arthur T. White on flyleaf. Provenance in ink above bookplate (Arthur T. White, June 1934). Frontispiece of the author opposite title page. Title page in black and dark green ink. Minor toning and finger-staining throughout textblock. Binding intact. Photos scattered throughout textblock. Please see photos. First American edition, limited to 1000 copies. There is a space for this copy's number to be written in, but it has been left blank. The first 100 copies of this 1000 copy run were signed by the author; please be aware that this copy is not signed. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married a poet, Olive Custance, in 1902, and had a son, Raymond. FORN-TUB-0051-BB-2407-JC1021
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Author: Alfred Douglas
Publisher: Coventry House
Topic: Nonfiction
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
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