THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. This item is unavailable.THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

Tall Octavo, 124 pages. In Very Good minus condition, with a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket spine black and blue with gilt lettering. Heavy wear to dust jacket, including chipping with material loss to corners; front cover detached from spine; gilt lettering to spine faded yet legible; protected by a mylar covering. Quarter bound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blue paper boards; deckled text block, untrimmed fore-edge. Mild shelf wear to boards, including bumping with slight material loss to head, tail, and corners; slight cocking to spine (boards shaken, no shelf lean, binding intact), binding visible at gutter between rear free endpaper and rear paste-down; age-toning to text block and less so to interior pages, illustrations and text remain clear and legible. Shelved in Poetry. Originally published in 1898 by Leonard Smithers. 1403425. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.