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London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Book. Good. Yellow Cloth. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 31 pages. ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt stamp of the library on the front cover and spine. .

Hardcover. Very Good. 6th edn of published year by bankrupt publisher with nondescript address on tp, hand-made paper, yellow/white covers w/gilt barely discernible, ex library copy w/usual marks on fep, red stamp on tp, p. 16 and top edge.

London:: Leonard Smithers,, 1898.. Second edition.. publisher's white and gold cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine.. Ink ownership name on front free endpaper; endsheets tanned; a very few smudges and spots to text and deckled fore-edges a bit tanned. The original binding is dust-soiled and stained; spine quite tanned; but tight and sound. . 8vo,.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Wilde used his prisoner's number as his nom de plume for the early printings. This is a Very Good copy of the "Fourth Edition" (Printing). Tan and cream-coloured binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 31 pages, text printed only on the recto. There is a contemporary (22 May 1898) previous-owner signature (only three letters) on the front free endpaper. There is a tiny bookseller label (Brentano's, Paris) on the rear paste-down. The paste-downs and free endpapers are typically tanned. The corners are bumped; surfaces soiled; and there is a crease on the rear cover. The spine has darkened but the lettering remains readable. Within this rather used-looking exterior the textblock is wonderfully fresh and bright. A solid copy of this rare edition.. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Royal Arcade London W: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First Edition. Cloth (quarter white cloth over orange cloth). Very Good. 8vo. 23 by 14.5 cm. Blank, colophon, half title leaf, title leaf, dedication leaf, 31 pp. One of 830 copies in first issue, this being one of 800 on hand-made Dutch Van Gelder paper. Published pseudonymously, with C.3.3. standing for WIlde's cell location in the prison. Copy with ownership inscription or autograph of Elliott F. Shepard, the husband of a Vanderbilt heiress (Daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, and grand-daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt), who was himself a founder of the New York Bar Association and the owner of a New York newspaper of the day. The cover has a fair amount of soiling, both a bit of grubbiness and some more pronounced, although not large, stains or spots of color loss. Spine gilt lettering still readable but a touch faded. Interior-wise, other than brown impression on free endpapers, the result of the paste used to attach the opposite… Read More