Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. One of 2000 copies. This interesting edition is most notable for its powewrful decorations and mezzotint illustrations by Lynd Ward. Bound in brown wood covers.Green decorative endpapers. Light bumping and rubbing. The delicate spine is torn and chipped, and the joints are exposed. Front hinge is cracked. Interior pages are tight and firm, with browning to margins. About very good. Small quarto. 106 pages. POE/011023.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. MacY-Masius: the Vanguard Press, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends & top corner, tape repair to spine, 3" piece trimmed from top edge FFE else a bright & solid copy. Limited Edition 1/2000 copies. Illustrated mezzotints by Lynn Ward. ; 4to 9" - 12" tall
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Vanguard Press; First Impression, 1928.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1928. HEAVY COVER WEAR. An acceptable hardcover copy with previous owner's name inside front. Pages are yellowed, but clean. Cover is smudged and faded. Corners and edges are bumped and rubbed; showing cardboard. No dust jacket. No ISBN. Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the U.S. and around the world.
Seller: Booksavers of MD, Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Macy Masius: The Vanguard Press, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited ed. (2k copies); copyrighted by Macy-Masius; unmarked; no bent/torn pp.; some separation of outer covering of spine at top edge; unmarked; no bent/torn pp
Seller: Harmonium Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ; Limited edition of only 2000 copies. Cover is heavily worn and soiled and lacking backstrip. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Signed on front white end sheet. Gift inscription on second white end sheet. Pages are lightly toned with modest soiling on just a few pages which are overall in very good condition. ; Signed by Artist
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Macy-Masius: The Vanguard Press, New York, 1928.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: Detaching spine cover glued back down by seller. Edge worn covers (looks like very, very thin wood veneer over boards) with scuffing and light soiling, cracking along spine edges and chips out of spine ends. Illustrated end papers and mezzotint illustrations throughout, pages tanning from edges, else pages good and binding tight. Presumed limited edition. Copyright page says, "The first impression consists of two thousand copies"
Seller: Vintage Quaker Books, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 107 pp. Illustrated with mezzotints by Lynd Ward. Large 8vo, publisher's wood-veneered boards in dust jacket. First impression; one of 2,000 copies. Unopened; and the delicate binding only slightly tanned at the spine and top edge with traces of rubbing at edges: very unusual for this book. The jacket has some tiny chips and edgewear, and one chip at the top of the back panel affects t\he "I" in "WILDE."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Oscar Wilde. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. Vanguard Press, New York, 1928.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Rubbing along panel edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel. Tape along spine. Illustrations by Lynd Ward.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.