The Ballad of Reading Gaol (By C. 3. 3)
by WILDE, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leonard Smithers, 1899. Hardback. Original white cloth-backed orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed and entirely unopened. Very light foxing to endpapers, contents clean; a very good copy throughout. Leonard Smithers's pirated edition, with Wilde's name in square brackets to the title page, and line 17 on page 15 printed as:And loud they sang, and loud they sang, as in his last authorized edition of 1899. Wilde published this work under the pseudonymC.3.3. after his cell in Reading Gaol (cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C). The first edition, published by Smithers in 1898, sold out rapidly, and a second edition was printed within weeks. After Wilde's death Smithers began publishing unauthorised editions of his works on laid paper, from stereotyped plated, with his address suppressed. These were continuously printed with the title page dated 1899 until Smithers's death in December 1907. Published: Leonard Smithers, 1899 (Mdccccxcix)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9454
- Title
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol (By C. 3. 3)
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leonard Smithers
- Date Published
- 1899
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
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Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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