De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very good condition. Decorated blue cloth boards, front and spine panel stamped in gold, gold titles, gilt device on the front cover, other edges untrimmed. Gilt top edge to text-block. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. All edges of text-block untrimmed. Preface by Robert Ross, 151 text pages plus 40-page publishers catalogue to rear dated July 1906. 224 mm x 140 mm.
Details
- Bookseller
- Varennes Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio4
- Title
- De Profundis
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Format/Binding
- Octavo 224 mm x 140 mm.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Referred to as Sixth Printing of 1905 edition in publisher's cat
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- March 1906
- Keywords
- Oscar Wilde
- Bookseller catalogs
- VARENNES BOOKS; BRITISH LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Varennes Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Varennes Books
Biblio member since 2016
Middlebury, Vermont
About Varennes Books
Established in 2016,Varennes Books specializes primarily in limited online sales of turn of the century and Inter-War period signed First Editions in the following areas of concentration: French, German and American Literature, including Poetry, Drama and, Fiction, European Literary Journals and a few unique antiquarian books.
Glossary
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Edges
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....