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Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol 1st Ed.

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Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol 1st Ed.

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Description

Heading:
Author: [Wilde, Oscar]
Title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3.
Place Published: London
Publisher:Leonard Smithers
Date Published: 1898
Description:

(8vo) original cream and tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. One of 800 copies on hand-made Dutch Van Gelder paper by the Chiswick Press. First Edition.

Wilde's classic work written upon his release from prison in 1897 and using the pseudonym, C.3.3., in reference to his cell number. Mason 371.

Condition

Spine sunned with a few small stains to lower spine, light rubbing and soiling to covers; offsetting to endpapers, very good.

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