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A Critic In Pall Mall: Being Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies
by WILDE, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen, 1919. Hardback. First edition, 1919. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. VG condition; boards are clean and bright with minimal rubbing and edgewear, bumps to corners and spine, deckle edges, endpapers tanned, foxing to inside covers, pages clean and tightly bound, owners mark in pencil on inside cover. Published: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1919
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- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10018
- Title
- A Critic In Pall Mall: Being Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Date Published
- 1919
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
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.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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