Wilde Gerald (38 results)
Dream Big And Act Fast
Mesiti, Pat; Day, Jacqueline; Harrison, Collin; Nyasulu, Gerald; Wilde, Billie; Cory, Ian; Lambert, Martine; Korte, Julie; Ropata, Graham; Cavanagh, David
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Published by Signet Classics, 1962
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Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Guerlais, Gérald (illustrator).
Published by Journal Kansas Entomological Soc, 1975
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Vol 48, No 3, July, 1975, pp. 396-402, Photo, Extracted from orig, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, else VG.
Dream Big And Act Fast: Develop the Abundance Mindset That Leads You To Prosperity, Growth & Wealth
Mesiti, Pat; Day, Jacqueline; Harrison, Collin; Nyasulu, Gerald; Wilde, Billie; Cory, Ian; Lambert, Martine; Korte, Julie; Ropata, Graham; Cavanagh, David
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Softcover. Condition: Bon. Editeur différent. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Different publisher. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Guerlais, Gérald (illustrator).
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Published by Synergetic Press, Inc., Oracle, Arizona, 1988
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Paper Back. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. 60pp.; SC blk.w/white-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; clean,tight pgs. The life and work of Gerald Wilde. illus. Wilde, Gerald (illustrator).
A Garland of Irish Verse:
Edited by Gwynn Hayes; Illustrations by W. Lee Hankey; Poetry by Ninine, William Drennan, Edmond O'Ryan, Diarmad O'Curnain, Padraic Pearse, Jonathan Swift, Olver Goldsmith, Thomas Moore, John Anster, Samuel Lover, George Darley, Gerald Griffin, Francis Mahoney, Samuel Ferguson, John Kells Ingram, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Robert Dwyer Joyce, William Lecky, Fanny Parnell, Oscar Wilde, Katharine Tynan Hinkson, William Butler Yeats, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Nora Chesson, Eva Gore-Booth, John Millington Synge, Padraic Pearse, Thomas Kettle, Moira O'Neill, and Francis Ledwidge.
Published by Gramercy Books, New York, New York, 1993
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. dj. 92 pp. Dustjacket.
Language: French
Published by EME Editions, 2012
Series: Proximités Sociologie, Book 2 of 29. Book 2 of 29 - Proximités Sociologie
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card Wrappers. Introduction by David Sylvester, essays by William Feaver, Flash Allen and Corinna Mac Neice. Chronology, bibliography, documentation, 30 b/w illusts and 28 colour plates.
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Published by Editions Poetry, London, 1944
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, published 1944 by Editions Poetry. No jacket.Fawn cloth covered boards with faded brown titles to spine, boards marked and splashed, small rust mark, with knocks to corners and spine ends. e/ps a little spotted, all pages thereafter in very good condition, with sound binding. Drawi…ngs for The Ancient Mariner by Mervyn Peake, lithographs for T S Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night by Gerald Wilde. A interesting collection of poetry and articles. Gerald \Wilde, Mervyn Peake (illustrator).
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Published by Editions Poetry London (Nicholson & Watson),, 1944
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 185 poem, 3 colour lithographs by Wilde and 6 illustrations for Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" by Peake - also prose and letters. 264 pages, cloth binding, clean and sound inside and out.
Language: French
Published by EME Editions, 2012
Series: Proximités Sociologie, Book 2 of 29. Book 2 of 29 - Proximités Sociologie
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Published by The Millinery Works Gallery., London, 2004
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Oblong 24mo. Original paper covers. Portrait, essay byJeff Jackson, 3 colour illusts, critical texts. With the folding card Private View invitation and a cut review.
Language: French
Published by EME Editions, 2012
Series: Proximités Sociologie, Book 2 of 29. Book 2 of 29 - Proximités Sociologie
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Seller: Gallix, Gif sur Yvette, FranceGallix
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Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United KingdomJoseph Burridge Books
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 40 pages. Contents: Foreword / Corinna MacNeice -- Gerald Wilde, 1905-86 / Roger Bristow -- The hole in the wind : the work of Gerald Wilde / Cherry Smyth -- David Sylvester and Gerald Wilde / John-Paul Stonard -- The life and work of Gerald Wilde / Victoria King.
Published by London: John Trafford, 1955
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1st edition. VG. 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. Double Number of this seminal 1950s British little magazine. Includes work by Stevie Smith, Honor Frost, and an impressive roster of other contributors. Unmarked copy, spine has staining, light toning to… wrappers. Not Signed.
Published by Synergetic Press. (1988), 1988
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VG .softcovers. no inscriptions or marginalia. internally a lovely clean copy. from the personal library of a collector. 1st Edition. Card Wrappers. Introduction by David Sylvester, essays by William Feaver, Flash Allen and Corinna Mac Neice. Chronology, bibliography, documentation, 30 b/w illusts and 28 colour plates.
Language: French
Published by Editions Modulaires Européennes InterCommunication SPRL, 2013
Series: Proximités Sociologie, Book 2 of 29. Book 2 of 29 - Proximités Sociologie
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. French language. 9.45x5.83x0.79 inches. In Stock.
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945
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- Periodical
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February…1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945
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- Periodical
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February…1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
Published by Synergetic Press. (1988), 1988
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VG .softcovers. Book in excellent condition with no markings. or inscriptions. internally a good crisp clean copy. From the personal collection of a dealer/collector.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition copy of Volume 2, Number 10, of this brightly illustrated and highly regarded literary magazine Poetry London. The first edition of this work, Volume 2, Number 10, ofPoetry London, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, d…ated 1945. Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915-1983) was a Tamil poet, editor, critic and publisher, who had significant influence in the literary scenes of London and New York City, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1939, he founded the literary magazine Poetry London, to which many well-known writers contributed, including: Lawrence Durrell, Kathleen Raine, W. H. Auden, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Campbell, Robin Skelton, and many others. Consequently the magazine showcased late modernist and American Beat poetry.This 1944 work is Volume 2, Number 10, ofPoetry London, containing a letter in memory of the war poet Keith Douglas (1920-1944); poetry and prose from well-known writers such as R. S. Thomas, Stevie Smith, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Durrell; a lithograph to T. S. Eliot's Rhapsody on a Windy Night by Gerald Wilde, and drawings for The Ancient Mariner by Mervyn Peake. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, cloth is generally smart, though faded to the spine and front board, with a little bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting to the first and last few pages, and to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Very Good. Gerald Wilde; Mervyn Peake (illustrator). book.
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hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.
Published by Ipswich: W.S. Cowell, 1951, 1951
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Paper bound, small oblong 8vo, 53 plates. Minor bump to bottom edge of block else very good. 190 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually… published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Note that this copy has been bound upside down - a rare variant! ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners sharp - just slightly creased lower corners. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with a neat contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink to the top of the front free endpaper: 'To my darling wife 12.1.46'. Interior pages clean with no foxing. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just some small areas of loss at the top edge. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Fading to the red titles on the spine. Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
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Published by Editions Poetry London / Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually… published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a rarer variant issue of the book in light beige cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are very clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed, with some browning to the top and bottom margins of the boards. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Unobtrusive very light sporadic foxing to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Some light production creasing to a couple of pages. Interior pages clean. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 15s. net. The fragile dustwrapper is complete, which is very unusual for this book - the dustwrapper normally has some loss. The edges of the dustwrapper are rubbed and creased, and there is a 1.5 cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel, and a couple of closed tears and associated creasing to the top edge of the back panel. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper also slightly creased and rubbed. Back panel of dustwrapper slightly discoloured and rubbed (being a white background). Illustrated front panel of dustwrapper clean and bright. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***'There has been no other periodical since the Great War that has gathered so many poets into its pages.' - Francis Scarfe in 'Auden & After' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Complete in its original thin wartime colour illustrated dustwrapper - the three full-page colour lithographs (one double-page) by Gerald Wilde are clean and bright and in very fine condition, and with the eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake, and a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. Extremely scarce to find complete in the original dustwrapper. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator).
Published by Arts Council of Great Britain., 1951
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- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo. Original card covers with an original colour lithograph by Gerald Wilde, printed by Cowell. 54 item catalogue, 54 b/w plates, foreward by Philip James. Covers lightly rubbed.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. An 11 page illustrated article on Wilde by Brian Robb (including one full page full colour illustration) in Signature New Series No 7, 1948. Wrappers. Very good in protective glassine wrapper.
- Softcover
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Condition: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Sprache: Französisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar. Guerlais, Gérald (illustrator).
