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157 - Wilde (Oscar) Poems, first edition [one of 250 copies], occasional light finger-soiling, bookplate and ink ownership inscription of Henry Bradshaw Isherwood, ink inscription "Malcolm Lawson from the composer of that name" to half-title, endpapers browned, original parchment boards with gilt floral designs to covers and spine, rubbing and soiling to covers and spines, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, [Mason 304], 8vo, David Bogue, 1881.
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Wilde (Oscar) Poems, first edition [one of 250 copies], occasional light finger-soiling, bookplate and ink ownership inscription of Henry Bradshaw Isherwood, ink inscription "Malcolm Lawson from the composer of that name" to half-title, endpapers browned, original parchment boards with gilt floral designs to covers and spine, rubbing and soiling to covers and spines, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, [Mason 304], 8vo, David Bogue, 1881. *** "The first printing (June 1881) consisted of 750 copies, of which only 250 copies were used for the first edition, the remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and third editions." - Mason.
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