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USA: John Lane Bodley Head/Dodd Mead, 1925. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition Thus 1925. A new illustrated edition with twelve full page engravings by Henry Keen. Printed at simultaneously and in the same format as the UK version. Book is very good++ and very bright. Beautiful bright gilt work to boards and spine. Contents good. Pages lightly age toned. The wrapper is very good with small loss to spine top and rear edge. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 17169

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by Oscar Wilde that follows a young man named Dorian Gray, who becomes the subject of a painting. As Dorian engages in a hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he finds that the portrait reflects the consequences of his actions on his soul, while he himself remains young and beautiful.

A first edition can often be identified by examining the publishing details in the book's front matter, such as the publisher's name, the date of publication, and for this book, the earliest state would typically be the 1891 three-volume edition without the suppressed passages that were reinstated in a later one-volume edition.