R. S. HICHENS. — The Green Carnation. A novel.

Argus Books, Chicago, 2nd Edition, The second American edition, following the anonymous Appleton edition of 1894, and thus the first US edition issued under the author's real name. 8vo. 211pp. Green cloth lettered in green at the spine and upper board, with a double green-stamped border within a second blind-stamped border. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and soiled dust wrapper, with two miniscule fractions of loss from the head of the spine panel. A very nice copy of the author's noted satire of the Aesthetic Movement, featuring thinly disguised portraits of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. The fact that the novel was initially issued anonymously was merely a ploy by the publisher to arouse interest (at one point Wilde himself was suspected as the author), yet it was briefly withdrawn after the scandal of the Oscar Wilde trial., Fine, Very Good