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Fine Literature
1:00 PM PT - Oct 9th, 2008

 

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Lot 4320 save

First of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Description: Original lavender cloth, cover stamped with stylized gilt leaf devices, spine lettered in gilt. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies. First Edition.Mason 381.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Leonard Smithers
Date Published: 1899

Condition report

Spine darkened, spine tips chipped, large waterstain across front cover; bookplates on front pastedown, a few marginal stains in text, occasional foxing, otherwise good.

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