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The Letters of Oscar Wilde
by Wilde, Oscar & Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardback. Purple cloth boards rubbed on corners, lightly sunned at top-edges and on spine, gilt lettering bright; Pages lightly age-toned, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, no annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 958 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51706
- Title
- The Letters of Oscar Wilde
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar & Rupert Hart-Davis (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Date Published
- 1962
Terms of Sale
Walden Books
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
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