INTENTIONS ... THE DECAY OF LYING PEN PENCIL AND POISON THE CRITIC AS ARTIST THE TRUTH OF MASKS
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Hardcover
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead, [nd. but ca. 1891?].. Rose cloth over boards, lettered in yellow, top edge stained brown. Spine a trifle darkened, with some hand-smudging to cloth, small nick at crown of spine, but a very good copy. An American issue of the British sheets. Mason/Millard was unable to examine a copy of the American issue of the first edition sheets, but describes a literal date in the title-imprint, in a binding of the same color of cloth as this copy, with the same overall dimensions. However, the American issue of the second London edition does bear a literal date (1894) in the title imprint, and is bound in tan cloth. Hence the copy in hand is most likely not a variant of the American issue of the second edition, and may very well be the American issue of the first edition sheets (600 copies), at variance from Mason/Millard's speculative description. With the pencil ownership inscription of American publisher Ingalls Kimball, dated Chicago August 1894. MASON/MILLARD 343.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT61926
- Title
- INTENTIONS ... THE DECAY OF LYING PEN PENCIL AND POISON THE CRITIC AS ARTIST THE TRUTH OF MASKS
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [nd. but ca. 1891?].
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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