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WILDE, Oscar. Intentions. The Decay of Lying. Pen, Pencil and Poison. The Critic as Artist. The Truth of Masks. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1891.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First American edition using the English sheets (see *Mason* 343: "Of the English edition. . 600 copies were printed for America). Octavo. 258pp. Pinkish-red cloth stamped in yellow. Spine is slightly faded, else a nice, very near fine copy. Scarce.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar. INTENTIONS . THE DECAY OF LYING PEN PENCIL AND POISON THE CRITIC AS ARTIST THE TRUTH OF MASKS. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1891.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar. Intentions, The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil, and Poison; The Critic As Artist; The Truth of Masks. Dodd, Mead and Company [1891], New York, 1891.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Octavo, pink cloth stamped in yellow. Of a total of 1500 copies printed, 900 were for sale in the UK, and 600 were bound with the Dodd, Mead and Company title page. Very Good condition, spine darkened, time toned paper. No dust jacket.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar. Intentions, The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil, and Poison; The Critic As Artist; The Truth of Masks. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1891.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Octavo, pink cloth stamped in yellow. Of a total of 1500 copies printed, 900 were for sale in the UK, and 600 were bound with the Dodd, Mead and Company title page. Very Good condition, spine darkened, time toned paper. No dust jacket.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

WILDE, OSCAR.. Intentions. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891, 1891.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Publisher's cloth; cloth soiled and with some wear; only a good copy. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the leaf opposite the title, 'Oscar Wilde/ May Ô91.' The inscription is faintly blotted onto the title page. The book was published on May 2, 1891 in an edition of 1500 copies, 600 of which were issued with the American Dodd, Mead imprint. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.