Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman
by WILDE, Oscar
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1893. First Edition. Small quarto (21.75cm.); original reddish-brown gilt-embossed cloth; [14],132,14[ads]pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, narrow strip of discoloration to fore-edge of upper cover, minor foxing to textblock, upper hinge cracked but still quite strong; About Very Good. Contemporary bookplate of Oscar Wilde collector Jon Weekly. 500 copies issued (MASON 357).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22477
- Title
- Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Ireland; Modern Drama; Literature Before 1900;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...