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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
WILDE, OSCAR. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 8vo, original parchment-backed grey-paper bevelled boards, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt to a design by Charles Ricketts, spine tanned and lightly worn at the tips, corners rubbed with mild exposure; contents clean with binding tight; partly unopened; custom cloth drop-back case. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., [1891]
first trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 250 copies); this is the first issue (misprint to p. 208, eight lines from the bottom, lacking the "a" and reading "nd"). Partly unopened copy; lacking the ads at end. Mason 328.
