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Oscariana
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Arthur L. Humphreys. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1910. Reprint. Flexible leather. Clean, small format book bound in soft yapped red leather with gilt titles and blind stamped decoration, spine ends chipped, no inscriptions. 64 pages, 2 tipped in vignettes. Tissue guard to title page - possibly frontispiece excised? .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68442
- Title
- Oscariana
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Flexible leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arthur L. Humphreys
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Oscar Wilde, Sayings, Epigrams
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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