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Oscar Wilde: Famous Trials, Seventh Series.

Name: Oscar Wilde: Famous Trials, Seventh Series.
Author: MONTGOMERY HYDE, H.; [HUTCHINSON, Jeremy]

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FIRST PENGUIN EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MMP. Illustrated orange wrappers. Toned and foxed. Inscribed by Montgomery Hyde in blue ink to verso of biog. page: “For Jeremy Hutchinson, In admiration of his gallant defence at Bow Street of Miss Fanny Hill, from, H. Montgomery Hyde. February 1964,” biog. page loosening at top. Else, clean.

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An apt, infamous-British-trials-related association copy of the first Penguin edition of H. Montgomery Hyde’s account of the Wilde trials, inscribed to the British barrister Jeremy Hutchinson in the month he lost the obscenity trial against Gareth Powell’s uncensored Mayflower Books edition of Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure, Fanny Hill (1963); Hutchinson had worked on the (successful) defence team in The Lady Chatterley trial, R v Penguin Books Ltd (1960), the test case for the Obscene Publications Act 1959.
Three years before the publication of this new and enlarged paperback edition of Montgomery Hyde’s account of the Wilde trials, the Unionist MP for Belfast North was deselected by his party, having argued in favour of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in a debate about implementing the Wolfenden report.

Author MONTGOMERY HYDE, H.; [HUTCHINSON, Jeremy]

Date 1962

Binding MMP

Publisher Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Condition Good+

Price: £75.00

Offered by Quair Books

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