Ravenna. Newdigate Prize Poem. Recited in The Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878

by Oscar Wilde

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Oxford: Thomas Shrimpton and Son, 1878. First edition. Oxford crest present on front wrap and title page; a later pirate edition lacked these. Mason 301 . 16 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-green printed wrappers. An unsophisticated copy, Very Good with toning and and few small edge chips to fragile wrappers. Contents bright and in great shape. The author's first book. Item #140943843

• Binding: Wrappers

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