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Poems
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.
Synopsis
From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy bloody knout or treacherous cannonadesRob nations of their rights inviolateAnd I remain unmoved - and yet, and yet,These Christs that die upon the barricades,God knows it I am with them, in some things.
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- Bookseller
- The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 912120498
- Title
- Poems
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1881
- Pages
- 230pp.
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry 1st Editions, 19th Century Irish Literature, Poetry, 1st Editions, Oscar Wilde, First Editions
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The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
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About The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg
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- 12mo
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
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