Plays
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$9.46$7.57
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London & Glasgow: Collins, 1954 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collection of plays by Oscar Wilde, first published individually from 1880 to 1908. Introduction by Tyrone Guthrie. 448pp illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to spine, top edges tinted, patterned endpapers. Slight rubbing and fading to spine, corners bumped and spine a little slack, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions..
Synopsis
Penguin Plays
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007460
- Title
- Plays
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London & Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...