Impressions of America. Edited with an Introduction by Stuart Mason. Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906. Bound in marbled boards, title label to centre of upper cover. Head of spine chipped, otherwise a good copy.

Originally issued in wrappers this copy has been rebound. Limited to 500 Copies Printed.

The lecture Oscar Wilde delivered in 1883 shortly after his two American trips of 1882 and 1883.

Wilde presents America as a land of charming absurdities and paradoxes, poking fun at its earnestness, its landscapes (finding the prairies “deficient in atmosphere” and Niagara Falls “a disappointment”), and its citizens’ habits.