The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde, C. 3. 3

$35,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. One of thirty copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, this being copy twenty-four. Published under the pseudonym C.3.3., Wilde's cell number while he was at Reading Gaol, in an attempt to separate Wilde's then-notorious name from the publication. A lovely, Fine copy.Wilde's long poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, published just two

• Binding: Leather

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