A House of Pomegranates. With An Introduction by H.L. Mencken. Illustrated By Ben Kutcher. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1926. First Edition Thus. Pp xvi, 180. Sixteen Plates in the text. Publisher’s black cloth, title lettered in gilt, with pictorial gilt decoration to boards, pictorial endpapers & matching dust jacket. Light wear to head & tail of jacket, neat ink inscription to verso of title page. Overall a nice bright copy.

A collection of Wilde’s seven fairy tales including The Happy Prince, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, and The Star-Child.

Delicately illustrated in pen & ink drawings by Ben Kutcher and American artist in the style of Aubrey Beardsley.