NMLP P-039007 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde · David Nutt (London) · 1888

No book-club edition applies to an 1888 title. The trap here is "first thus": later Nutt reissues and the Duckworth and subsequent reprints carrying the Crane plates are not the 1888 first, and any copy lacking the red-and-black printed upper cover with the Jacomb Hood vignette, or lacking the Wilde/Nutt-signed limitation leaf in the case of a large-paper copy, is not the first. Sources cite the Mason number inconsistently as 313 and 314 across the trade and large-paper issues, so cite Mason with care.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-039007 for "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039007, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).