The Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1937. George Macy conceived of the Heritage Press as a way to offer less-expensive versions of his publications with the Limited Editions Club. They are beautiful productions in their own right; here is Macy's offering of Oscar Wilde's most famous poem. Bound with a smooth, polished cloth in a design of a prison's barred window set in a brick wall. Clean text; xii, 43 pages, page edges are stained red. With an Introduction by Barton Rascoe, and illustrated with eight black-and-white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Lacking a slipcase, the book remains in Fine condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Zhenya Gay. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002840
- Title
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Illustrator
- Zhenya Gay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
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