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C.3.3 (Oscar Wilde). Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Price: US$52.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1899 printing in original format ,Good Copy with soiled boards ,internally clean bright some foxing to the deckle edge extremities , no inscriptiond

Seller: Between The Boards, Connahs Quay, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

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Seller: Rain Dog Books, Bloomington, IL, U.S.A.

[WILDE, Oscar] C. 3. 3.. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Description: [8] 31 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's white and gold cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine. Seventh edition. Bookplate; same owner's old ink ownership signature on front free endpaper; endsheets a bit tanned. The original binding is dust-soiled; spine quite tanned with shallow chipping at its extremities; tight and sound.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

O.) (Wilde. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol By C.3.3. Leonard Smithers, 0, 1899.

Price: US$62.76 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: pp 31 foxing rebound in an old style half binding not retaining t he original wrappers

Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand

C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$65.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Slightly grubby spine, title to spine fading, pp clean and bright, very good. Size: 8vo

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

C. 3. 3. [Wilde, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Leonard Smithers 1899, 1899.

Price: US$66.69 + shipping

Description: HPgmt. mit LWd-Deckeln, Rückentitel, 31 Seiten, 4° (15,5 x 23 cm), Decke stark angeschmutzt, Ecke des hinteren fliegenden Blattes ausgeschnitten, Seitenränder gedunkelt, sonst sauber, insgesamt guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English

Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic

Wilde, Oscar:. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3.3. [Oscar Wilde].. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Price: US$70.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 31 S. Einband berieben und bestoßen, papierbedingt gebräunt. - Stuart Mason, A Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde: The type is different, and there is no printers' device, etc., at end of book Blank page before half-title is not lettered A. The publisher appears on the title-page as Leonard Smithers / London / MDCCCXCIX /. Printed on wove paper from stereotyped plates, and the number of the edition is not stated. The small designs dividing the various sections of the poem are different from those in preceding editions, and the figures in C. 3. 3. on the title-page and at the end of the poem have rounded tops instead of square. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550

Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde]. 7th edition.. London, Leonard Smithers, 1899., 1899.

Price: US$81.91 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A lovely copy. No jacket. One of the first copies to bear Oscar Wilde's name alongside the C.3.3 as it was originally published under. Mild edgewear to boards and spine. Neat dedication to the prelims otherwise pages are clear.

Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde].. London, Leonard Smithers 1899. 1899, 1899.

Price: US$83.24 + shipping

Description: Unauthorized edition by the printer of the first edition. Considered as the 8th printing. (8), 31 pp. Cloth-backed mustard coloured boards, gilt lettering on spine. Inscription on free endpaper. Slightly soiled and with minor stains on spine. Overall still very good. The title page gives Oscar Wilde's name in brackets, as well as the pseudonym C.3.3.

Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. Condition. Very Good-. Unauthorized or pirated edition by the printer of the original, first edition . The last edition that was authorized by Wilde for Smithers to print was dated 1899, later unauthorized editions also show that date. Probably printed in 1904 based on 1904 gift inscription on FFEP. Soiling to boards. Backstrip of spine has tears along the hinges, particularly at the bottom. Binding is nonetheless firm. Clean interior with light offsetting to pastedowns.

Seller: EGR Books, Centreville, VA, U.S.A.

Oscar WILDE. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C. 3. 3. (Oscar Wilde). Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$102.26 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 31 pages. Language : English. Copyright February 1898, entered at Stationners' Hall. Entered at the Library of Congress Washington U S A. Uncut. Hard cover. Very fine condition. Shipping cost can probably be reduced, solid envelope category, about 500 grams ; please ask us. Langue : anglais. « La Ballade de la Geôle de Reading ». Poème rédigé par Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) après sa libération de la prison de la prison de Reading (mai 1897), lors de son exil en France (près de Dieppe). Publié la première fois par l'éditeur Leonard Smithers en 1898, sans que le nom de l'auteur puisse être mentionné, ce poème décrit les derniers moments d'un condamné à mort. La désignation, à la place du nom de l'auteur, de C.3.3. désigne : C, cell block C (cellule, bloc C) ; landing 3rd ; Cell 3. Couverture rigide, brun beige et blanc, titre en dorure sur le dos. Probable réduction des frais d'expédition, catégorie enveloppe solide, environ 500 g ; nous vous renseignons volontiers. Etat : très bon. Non coupé. 23 x 15 x 1.2 cm 225g.

Seller: ABC - Eric Girod, Penthaz, VAUD, Switzerland

C.3.3. (Oscar Wilde). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, England, 1899.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 31 pages, 8vo. Scarce. Seventh Edition: this is the first edition to use Oscar Wilde's name on the title page, in parenthesis. Mustard cloth boards with cream white spine, gold lettering along spine. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and cover boards, some light smudges on cover boards, heavy foxing on free endpapers and inside covers, light foxing on page leafs. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Price: US$123.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde. Leonard Smithers. Dated 1899 but probably circa 1908. Early reprint. Original publisher's binding. Half title page uncut as issued. Slight corner bumps. Small pencil inscription and a little light foxing. Near VG.

Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom

C.3.3. [OSCAR WILDE].. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.. Leonard Smithers., London, 1899.

Price: US$130.02 + shipping

Description: 8vo in fours. 9 x 6 inches. [viii] + 31 pp. printed on recto only. Bound in cream cloth, gilt, over cinnamon boards. Deckled edges. Spine sunned, a little wear to extremities, page edges browned and some scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. 1913 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Oscar Wilde's famous poem relating events in Reading Gaol during his two year incarceration, written in France after his release. Issued by the publisher of the first edition of 1898, one of the unauthorised editions based on the seventh, which was the first to have the title page bearing the author's name in square brackets below his prisoner designation. The name also appears on the spine. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 19TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

C. 3. 3. [WILDE, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$130.02 + shipping

Description: [8], 31pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. The last published work of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) before his death in exile in November of 1900. The Anglo-Irish poet and playwright, remembered as one of high society's greatest wits, suffered a criminal conviction for gross indecency and was subsequently sentenced to two years hard labour - the bulk of which was served at Reading Gaol. Size: 8vo

Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom

C.3.3./ Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers & Co., 1899.

Price: US$151.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Leonard Smithers & Co. 1899 seventh edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom

Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers 1899 [1908], London, 1899.

Price: US$156.02 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The final unauthorised edition of Oscar Wilde's anonymously authored poem, inspired by his witnessing of an execution while imprisoned in Reading Gaol. An unauthorised edition, based upon the seventh printing of the work, which was the first to feature Wilde's name to the title page. Identified as an unauthorised edition by the lack of a publisher's address to the title page, while Wilde's name appearing to the cloth back strip means that this was published following the death of the original publisher - Leonard Smithers - in 1907, and was the last unauthorised edition produced. According to Mason's Wilde bibliography, about one thousand copies of this edition were seized by Wilde's literary executor, with litigation threatened, thus ending the production of these unauthorised editions. Mason, 585.With a French language inscription, dated 1911, to the front free endpaper.A smart copy of the scarce final pirate edition of this important work from Wilde, penned during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, where he had in 1895 been convicted of 'gross indecency'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with significant discolouration to back strip. Small split in cloth to front joint, resulting in some fraying. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned but generally clean, with one or two spots. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

C.3.3. [Oscar WILDE]; [GARNETT, Emmeline]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers and Xo, London, 1899.

Price: US$156.02 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Seventh edition (printing) and first to include Wilde's name on title page. Slim 8vo (in 4s), pp. [viii], 31 printed and numbered on recto, [2]. Original quarter cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fawn cloth boards. Edges untrimmed. Grubby and stained, extremities bruised and worn, white stains to leading edges. Edges and endpapers toned and scantly foxed. Emmeline Garnett's sober ex libris to ffep, plus inscription above in blue ink: "Emmeline Garnett/ July 1946/ St. Leonards". Else, clean and bright. A robust copy of the last authorised edition published by Smithers; one of 2000 copies. Very good Composed during Wilde's exile in Bernavel-le-Grand with Robbie Ross following his two-year incarceration for gross indecency under the Labouchere Amendment Act and first published under his prison cell number at Reading, 'C.3.3'. The popularity of Wilde's ballad afforded him a small income for the rest of his life, having been forced to admit bankruptcy whilst imprisoned. Emmeline Garnett (1924-2022) was a "teacher, author and historian par excellence", who wrote extensively about Lancashire, including John Marsden's Will: The Hornby Castle Dispute, 1780-1840 and Juvenile Offenders in Victorian Lancashire: W. J. Garnett and the Bleasdale Reformatory as well as Florence Nightingale's Nuns.

Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom

C.3.3. [WILDE, Oscar].. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.. Leonard Smithers. London Seventh edition?, 1899.

Price: US$156.02 + shipping

Description: pp. (viii), 31 (numbered and printed rectos only, (ii) blank. Quarter white cloth over light brown cloth covers, uncut, one early leaf with a couple of small tears in the fore-edge margin, the following leaf with one small tear, no loss to either, in all other ways a very good copy, with Wilde's name in the title but not on the spine.

Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar (C.3.3.). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers 1899, London, 1899.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 31 pp, one of the unauthorised editions printed between 1899 and 1907 based on the 7th edition (Mason 378) which first identified Wilde as the author. They printed at 137 Dalling Road Hammersmith. Quite heavily foxed first few pages, fading and marks to spine. 8vo.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

WILDE, Oscar.. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde].. Leonard Smithers, London., 1899.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Description: Seventh and last authorised edition; also the first to have the author's name on the title-page. Octavo. 31 leaves, printed on rectos only. Two-tone buckram covers.Some light foxing to prelims. Small bump to top edge of rear cover. Covers a little marked. Very good.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 7th edition (as stated to verso of title page); the first edition to use Wilde's name to title page. The last authorised edition published by Leonard Smithers and Co, with the publisher's address to title page. One of apparently 2000 copies. Original two-tone cloth boards; spine lettered in gilt. 31 numbered pages, printed to recto only. First and last few leaves uncut. Page edges untrimmed. Covers grubby and stained. Spine ends chipped. Leaves clean with just the slightest hint of foxing and some off-setting to endpapers. A very good copy.

Seller: Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom

C. 3. 3. [Wilde, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$216.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: One of 2000 copies. Bound in publisher's original quarter tan and orange cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Uncut. First edition to use Wilde's name. Last authorized edition issued by Smithers. Binding has seperated at page 1 but still intact. Gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. Some minor soiling to the covers.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

[Wilde, Oscar] C. 3. 3. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$218.43 + shipping

Description: 230mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 31pp. Early reprint. Publication date February 1898 to copyright page but with addition at this later stage of Wilde's name in square brackets beneath C. 3. 3. G - in Good condition. Cover lightly marked. Spine darkened. Inner hinges sympathetically reinforced. Light foxing of endpapers. Sm. tear to copyright page and chip to rear pastedown. Untrimmed Mustard hardback cloth cover with white spine

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

(WILDE, Oscar).. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. [Oscar Wilde]. Leonard Smithers 18991907, London, 1899.

Price: US$228.26 + shipping

Description: One of the unautorized editions published by Smithers between 1900-1907. This issue with Wilde’s name added to the spine, was published just before Smithers death in 1907. 8vo., orig. white cloth spine, cinnamon cloth boards, 31 leaves paginated on recto only. Bookplate, inscription, upper corners bumped and as is often the case with all the early editions of this title, the white spine is darkened and while the lettering is dull it is quite legible. A good copy. Mason 585.

Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada

Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers 1899 [1908], London, 1899.

Price: US$253.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The final unauthorised edition of Oscar Wilde's anonymously authored poem, inspired by his witnessing of an execution while imprisoned in Reading Gaol. An unauthorised edition, based upon the seventh printing of the work, which was the first to feature Wilde's name to the title page. Identified as an unauthorised edition by the lack of a publisher's address to the title page, while Wilde's name appearing to the cloth back strip means that this was published following the death of the original publisher - Leonard Smithers - in 1907, and was the last unauthorised edition produced. According to Mason's Wilde bibliography, about one thousand copies of this edition were seized by Wilde's literary executor, with litigation threatened, thus ending the production of these unauthorised editions. Mason, 585.With the inscription 'To Lord Provost Urquhart May 1910' to the front free endpaper. Sir James Urquhart was Lord Provost of Dundee.A smart copy of the scarce final pirate edition of this important work from Wilde, penned during his incarceration at Reading Gaol, where he had in 1895 been convicted of 'gross indecency'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light handling marks and areas of discolouration to the cloth. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with only the odd spot. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar.. Ballad of Reading Goal. By C.3.3 (Oscar Wilde).. London Leonard Smithers, 1899.

Price: US$285.69 + shipping

Description: 8°. 31 S. Orig.-Leinen. Mason 378 - 7. Auflage, in der erstmals in Klammer der Verfasser genannt wird.

Seller: Libelle mit H & B, Basel, Switzerland

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, ff 31 (62 pp), uncut, deckled edges. Unauthorized or pirated edition by the printer of the original, first edition . The last edition that was authorized by Wilde for Smithers to print was dated 1899, and the numerous later unauthorized editions continued to bear that date. The title page gives Oscar Wilde's name in brackets, as well as the pseudonym C.3.3, his cell number at the jail. Mason's bibliography of Wilde identifies this as the 8th printing (p. 378). White cloth over mustard colored boards. Minor foxing to endpapers, text block unaffected. Very good copy.

Seller: PLAZA BOOKS ABAA, Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.

Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of the Reading Gaol. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: a very good copy in the original 1/2 parchment cloth and cinammon boards. by Leonard Smithers, the 1st edition was limited on vellum 1898, then there was a 1st limited edition on handmade paper of 800 copies and then a first trade editon, then this edition, a later issue 1899. This is Oscar's great poem of lament from his 2 year stint in Reading Gaol. Great poetry and many heart rending verses an unsual association copy, with a set of period postage stamps linlaid, and a Tit Tat Fleet Street reporters card dispatch laid in from the period, the Press followed Oscar to jail, the story was a huge scandal in UK at the time.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

[WILDE. The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (Oscar, 1854-1900, Irish Poet & Dramatist)]. , 1899.

Price: US$728.75 + shipping

Description: later Edition of the First Edition (7th printing of June 1899), 31 pages, original hardcover, quarter vellum with mustard boards, Leonard Smithers very slight fraying on spine but tight copy in very good condition The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. Wilde spent mid-1897 with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge. No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. The finished poem was published by Leonard Smithers on February 13, 1898 under the name C.3.3., which stood for cell block C, landing 3, cell 3. This ensured that Wilde's name – by then notorious – did not appear on the poem's front cover. It was not commonly known, until the 7th printing in June 1899, that C.3.3. was actually Wilde. The first edition, of 800 copies, sold out within a week, and Smithers announced that a second edition would be ready within another week; that was printed on February 24th, in 1000 copies, which also sold well. A third edition, of 99 numbered copies "signed by the author" was printed on March 4th, on the same day a fourth edition of 1200 ordinary copies was printed. A fifth edition of a 1000 copies was printed on March 17th, and a sixth edition was printed in 1000 copies on May 21st, 1898. So far the book's title page had identified the author only as C.3.3., although many reviewers, and of course those who bought the numbered and autographed third edition copies, knew that Wilde was the author, but the seventh edition, printed on June 23, 1899 actually revealed the author's identity, putting the name Oscar Wilde, in square brackets, below the C.3.3.

Seller: Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA, Calne, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Goal. Leonard Smithers, London, 1899.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed, which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled, corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet, by no means assumed to be authentic.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.