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Reviews
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Methuen and Co., 1908. 1st Edition . Fair. 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5 x 21.5 cm). First printing. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Cream buckram binding. Spine heavily browned. Marking and soiling to boards. Top page edge gilt, but dulled, other edges untrimmed and browned. Foxing and a couple of small stains to endpapers. 12 leaves within the text have heavy staining to lower margin. Lesser staining to several other leaves. Text is otherwise clean throughout. Gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1936. Overall condition is Fair. Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xiv, 555
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1231E057
- Title
- Reviews
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 6.5 x 8.5 inches (16.5 x 21.5 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- , Essays_Letters_Tracts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays, Letters & Tracts;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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