The Ballad of Reading Goal

by Oscar Wilde

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

First edition

London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First Edition, first printing. One of 800 copies originally printed, which sold out immediately. Very Good. Covers soiled, corners and spine ends softened. Endsheets offset from binder's glue. Previous owner name partially effaced from front paste down. Slight odor to pages. Clipping with apparently forged signature of Oscar Wilde tipped in on recto of final blank sheet, by no means assumed to

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