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James Nelson
“The Importance of Being Earnest” Given by Wilde to Jailor Sells for $93,000 at Bonhams
June 18, 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 sold for £55,
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