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Price: US$308.71 + shipping
Description: Second Edition as printed to verso of the title page, 8vo. (230x45mm), pp: viii+1-31,[1], with half title and copyright page preceeding 'Copyright February 1898' , endpapers browned, signed in ink (offset) to front pastedown endpaper 'William Arkqwright', author and best remembered for his book on the Pointer and his Predecessors, published in 1902. Quarter linen backed, cinnamon cloth, worn and marked with contents very good. "Copyright February 1898" Published May 21, 1898. Textual variations match those of the second, fourth and fifth editions. First edition published Feb. 13, 1898. Cf. C.S. Millard. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol: By C.3.3.. Leonard Smithers, London, 1898.
Price: US$28000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Third edition (so stated). Octavo. Half white over purple linen, gilt stamped spine, upper cover with gilt stamped floral design by Charles Ricketts, uncut. Very good. 31 pages. Enclosed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase with folding chemise. One of 99 copies, printed March 4, 1898, signed by Wilde in black ink on limitation page, with characteristic paraph to the final "e." Mason #374. Bookplate of Chauncey Lawrence Williams on the front free endpaper and a signed pencil notation by Paul Lemperly noting he received the book from Williams. Williams (1872-1924), former member of Way and Williams, publishers and the F.W. Dodge Corp. With his memorial booklet laid in loose. Lemperly (1858-1939), noted American book collector.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. Leonard Smithers, 1898.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. This edition is limited to 99 numbered copies SIGNED by Oscar Wilde. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing marks of bookplates in the book. Overall, an attractive copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Oscar Wilde First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.