De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
Oscar Wilde wrote this while in prison to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas. This love letter is a profound look into the personal life of Oscar. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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De Profundis
by Oscar. Wilde
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London: Unicorn Press undated but probably 1930s, dustwrapper in tatters but book clean and sound. Not ex-library. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Item Price
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Used - Multiple small bumps on cover tops, top fore corner bumped, spine ends rubbed, small stains on rear cover, pencil notes on endpa
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- nd (1905)
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- Blue cloth
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London: Methuen and Co., nd (1905). Blue cloth. Multiple small bumps on cover tops, top fore corner bumped, spine ends rubbed, small stains on rear cover, pencil notes on endpaper and endpaper verso, endpaper foxing, small catalog clipping pasted to endpaper: VG- to VG/no dj. 8vo. First printing of 1st edition: Mason #388 Item Price
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DE PROFUNDIS
by Wilde Oscar
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- Used - Cloth bound in nearly fine condition.
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- Second edition
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- 1909
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Richmond, Texas, USA
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New York: Putnams, 1909. Second edition. Cloth bound in nearly fine condition.. With additional Material; ix, 154 pages. Item Price
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De Profundis
by WILDE, Oscar
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- Very Good
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- 1949
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£284.86
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New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First complete edition. Edited with an introduction by Vyvyan Holland. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, a sound, very good copy in a modestly spotted and age-toned, about very good dustwrapper. James Jones's copy with his ownership and address stamp in Marshall, Iowa. Item Price
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De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
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- Used - Very Good-
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- 4th Printing of First Edition (August 1905)
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- 1905
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- Quarter-bound paper boards with blue cloth spine and gilt titles
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San Rafael, California, USA
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Oscar Wilde's last published work, this long letter was written to his friend, Robert Ross during Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency and published after his death. The binding has soiling, some scuffs and bumps to edges and some mild staining. Hinges are tight and pages are bright and clean. There is an ink name and location ("Helen W. Smith, Linden… Read more about this item Item Price
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De profundis
by WILDE, Oscar
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- First edition in German
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- 1905
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Wareham, Dorset, GBR
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Berlin: S. Fischer, 1905. viii, 115pp, [1]. Title in red and black. Original publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt. Minor shelf-wear. Decorated endpapers, internally clean and crisp. The first edition in German, and indeed the first edition in book form, of Wilde's impassioned letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Bruce 'Bosie' Douglas, written during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol.… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- 1905
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Southold, New York, USA
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£36.63
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth spine , grey paper covered boards, paper spine label, t.e.g. light edge wear, wear to tips, previous owner's name written on fep.
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- First Edition
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- 1905
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Woodstock, Illinois, USA
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Poor. Fine in a Poor jacket, missing the spine, front flap detached. Quarter blue buckram with light blue-grey paper on the boards and spine edge. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally. The first American of Wilde's letter to Alfred Lord Douglas written during Wilde's… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
by Oscar Wilde
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- Used: Good
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- 1999-12-05
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- Paperback
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- 9781840224016
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HOUSTON, Texas, USA
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999-12-05. Paperback. Used: Good. Item Price
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De Profundis.
by WILDE, Oscar.
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- 1905
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London, GBR
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£5,000.00
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London: Methuen and Co.,, 1905. Hearts are made to be broken First edition, limited issue, one of 200 copies on handmade paper, of the author's dramatic prison letter. This was the only literary work Wilde produced during his time in Reading Gaol (1895-97), eventually published five years after his death by his literary executor Robert Ross. Wilde began… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis
by WILDE, Oscar
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- 1905
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Adelaide, South Australia, AUS
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£65.20
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London: Methuen and Co, 1905. Very Good. London, Methuen and Co., 1905 [Colonial Edition]. Crown octavo, [iii]-151 pages (bound without the half-title and advertisements). Later half roan and marbled boards; spine lettered and ruled in gilt; covers sunned and a little worn; a few spots of foxing to the the preliminaries; a couple of light pencilled emphases; one… Read more about this item Item Price
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DE Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
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- Used - Very good in black leatherette with embossed Modern Library stamp on front cover hinge starting at title page
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- 1926
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- Softcover
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Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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£40.70
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New York: Modern Library, 1926. Softcover. Very good in black leatherette with embossed Modern Library stamp on front cover hinge starting at title page. 154 pp. Item Price
£40.70
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De Profundis [Modern Library No. 117.1]
by WILDE, OSCAR
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- Used - Very near fine in good to very good dust jacket. To front pastedown, handsome old bookplate of Captain Cook's coat of arms, with
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- Reprint
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- 1930
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- Hardcover
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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£128.60
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New York: Modern Library, 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Very near fine in good to very good dust jacket. To front pastedown, handsome old bookplate of Captain Cook's coat of arms, with 'circa orbem' ('around the world') above and 'nil intentatum reliquit' ('he left nothing unattempted') below. Previous ownership signature to front free endpaper. Jacket moderately edgeworn, with small chip from… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis.
by WILDE, Oscar.
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- 1949
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London, GBR
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£500.00
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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd; The Collector's Book Club, 1949. First unabridged edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number 190 of 195 copies signed on the limitation page by the author's son, Vyvyan Holland, who also provided an introduction. Copies from this issue are comparatively scarce in commerce. In Wilde's final prose work, written between 1896 and 1897… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Forty-fifth edition
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- 1927
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Palm Springs, California, USA
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£61.04
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Forty-fifth edition (with additional matter). Small octavo. Original gilt blind stamped green cloth, uncut. No dust jacket. Very good. 156 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
7 page dedication by Robert Ross.
Printed by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the University Press, Edinburgh.
Includes listing details for all 45 printings. Item Price
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De Profundis (Modern Library Classics)
by Wilde, Oscar
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- New
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- 9780679783213
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Victoria, British Columbia, CAN
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De profundis : from a letter of Oscar Wilde addressed to a friend : written in MDCCCXCVII & called by him Epistola in carcere et Vinculis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Limited
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Diss, Norfolk, GBR
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£700.00
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Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1945. Hardback, full vellum, with original slipcase. 26.5 x 18cm. 114pp, [3]. Number 44 one of 121 copies on Fabriano paper from a total edition of 125 copies, printed in blue and black. Small repair to lower panel of slipcase, otherwise an excellent copy. Text in English.. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Item Price
£700.00
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De Profundis
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Used - Very Good-
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- Second American Edition
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- 1909
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Palm Springs, California, USA
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£56.97
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Second American edition, with additional matter (80 pages). Small octavo. Edited, with a prefatory dedication, by Robert Ross. Frontispiece portrait from the etching by J. E. Kelly. Original gilt stamped dark blue cloth over gray boards, t.e.g., uncut. No dust jacket. Very good (slight soiling). 154 pages.
Small book seller label indicating book is from library of author Sara Bard… Read more about this item Item Price
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De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 1960
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Swanton, Vermont, USA
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£7.73
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Philosophical Library, 1960. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is worn with a few small tears along the edges. Cover is foxed along the spine. Page ends are lightly soiled. Text is unmarked. Strong binding. NOT ex-library. Item Price
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DE PROFUNDIS
by WILDE, OSCAR
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- 1909
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- Hardcover
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CARLSBAD , California, USA
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£48.83
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. "Second Edition with Additional Matter. Edited, with a Prefatory Dedication by Robert Ross." Navy cloth-backed grey paper covered boards. Paper spine label with gilt title dulled. Top edge gilt. Small bookseller label on front pastedown, contemporay prior owner name on front flyleaf, extremities lightly worn. Text clean and unmarked. . Hard Cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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