OSCAR WILDE A PRESENT TIME APPRAISAL
by ERVINE , ST JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: ALLEN & UNWIN, 1951 Green cloth with black lettering to spine.336pp + 6 of publisher's adverts. An absorbing biography in which Ervine set out to judge Wilde not as a subject for pity or reproach, but as a Writer and especially as a Dramatist. Book clean - no insc. It has the usual brown band on the feps between the d/j flap and the spine associated with books of this age and very slight foxing to fore edges of pages. Attractive book plate to pasted down fep. The Dust Jacket is in exceptional condition - not price clipped 5mm closed tear to rear bottom spine fold and very slight foxing to rear flap at fore edge o/w wise bright and clean in clear proprietary protective cover. PLS see our image
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 654
- Title
- OSCAR WILDE A PRESENT TIME APPRAISAL
- Author
- ERVINE , ST JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- ALLEN & UNWIN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 220x145 mm Approx
- Keywords
- AUTHOR, PLAYWRIGHT St John Irvine a Present Time Appraisal of OSCAR WILDE, Modern FIRST EDITIONs, D/j, 1951, Biography, Criticism , FOR DISCUSSION as Writer and Dramatist His Work Amounts to ?
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- Fore Edge
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