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Oscar Wilde A Certain Genius
by BELFORD, Barbara
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0679457348
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457343
- Seller
-
ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
First edition, so stated,* in brown back-strip with lavender lettering and beige boards, octavo, pp. xiv, 381 plus colophon. Black and white illustrations. Mild crease at top of dust jacket rear panel from pre-mylar days (see our image), but jacket now protected in a new sheet of archival Brodart. *Random's First Edition number lines begin with 2 and not 1.
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Details
- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3728
- Title
- Oscar Wilde A Certain Genius
- Author
- BELFORD, Barbara
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679457348
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457343
- Publisher
- New York: Random House, [2000]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography/Reference;
Terms of Sale
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
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About the Seller
T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Biblio member since 2013
ELLSWORTH, Maine
About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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- First Edition
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- Brodart
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- Octavo
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
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