Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol 1906
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde, (C.3.3.); published by John W. Luce and Company, Boston, 1906; small quantity pirated edition.
John W. Luce Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. [See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214.]
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labor in prison.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) ---- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ----- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, original spine and 1/3 red cloth with 2/3 green cloth [a little soiling, one bright spot on the front board; 4” x 5.1/4”; private ex-libris inside cover, two title pages, 42 pages printed on heavy laid paper, a little foxing mostly endpapers, very good condition.
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"The Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde, (C.3.3.); published by John W. Luce and Company, Boston, 1906; small quantity pirated edition.
John W. Luce Company was a small publishing house founded in Boston in 1904. It was briefly first known as Robinson, Luce Company. The firm was involved in the founding of Bruce Humphries (q.v.) but subsequently resumed publishing in its own name. John W. Luce and Company ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and the firm went out of business shortly afterwards. [See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 214.]
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labor in prison.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) ---- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ----- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, original spine and 1/3 red cloth with 2/3 green cloth [a little soiling, one bright spot on the front board; 4” x 5.1/4”; private ex-libris inside cover, two title pages, 42 pages printed on heavy laid paper, a little foxing mostly endpapers, very good condition.
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