The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good- (Good)
- Seller
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Bath, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press. Detaching spine cover glued back down by seller. Edge worn covers (looks like very, very thin wood veneer over boards) with scuffing and light soiling, cracking along spine edges and chips out of spine ends. Illustrated end papers and mezzotint illustrations throughout, pages tanning from edges, else pages good and binding tight. Presumed limited edition. Copyright page says, "The first impression consists of two thousand copies" . Good- (Good). Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 097379
- Title
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good- (Good)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Oscar Wilde; illustrated; mezzotints; poetry
Terms of Sale
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
Biblio member since 2013
Bath, Maine
About Vintage Quaker/Corner Bookshop
We got started selling online as Vintage Quaker Books in 2013 and opened a storefront under the name The Corner Bookshop in 2020. Vintage Quaker Books sells books by, for, and about Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) and a variety of other Christian books. The Corner Bookshop is a general used bookstore located in a cozy basement under/behind the main shopping street of Front Street in Bath, Maine.
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