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Moscow:: Progress Publishers,, 1979. F/VG. Normal slight shelf-wear (rubbing and small tears) to corners and edges of dust jacket and slight foxing; otherwise, a crisp, clean copy. Handsome sextodecimo size (16mo), 2 volume set is black cloth with gilt text on spine and cover. Sold as set only. Introduction is in Russian and text itself is in English. Reprint. Volume one contains "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Volume two contains "The Importance of Being Earnest", "De Profundis", poems, essays and letters.
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- Bookseller
- Plum Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918
- Title
- Selections
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Progress Publishers,
- Place of Publication
- Moscow:
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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