Wilde, Oscar. Intentions [The Decay of Lying, Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks]. James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 8vo. Rebound in plain olive cloth, leather spine label lettered in gilt. 258 pp. Title page and premilinary blanks detached. Sold as is.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

WILDE, Oscar. Intentions: The Decay of Lying Pen Pencil and Poison the Critic as Artist the Truth of Masks. James R. Osgood McIlvaine & Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original olive gilt-stamped cloth. Slight spine lean. Early ownership signature. Endpapers quite foxed, otherwise a clean copy.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Wilde, Oscar. Intentions. The Decay of Living; Pen Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks. London, James R. Osgood and Mc Ilvaine, 1891., 1891.

Price: US$439.57 + shipping

Description: 4 leaves, 258 pp. 1 leaf. Gr.-8vo. Orig. moss-green cloth with gilt lettered spine and front board. Uncut. First edition. One of 900 copies for the British market of a total of 1500 incl. those with the American imprint. Copy with all characteristics called for by Mason. Collected edition of Wilde’s four treatises on aesthetics and criticism, published before separately in „The Nineteenth Century" and „The Fortnighly Review". – Mason 341. – Spine and boards affected by dampstain. Uncut margins somewhat dustsoiled.

Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland

Wilde, Oscar. Intentions: The Decay of Lying, Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. James R. Osgood McIlvaine and Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$538.72 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The spine is darkened with some fading to the lettering and slight fraying at the top and bottom. The corners are bumped and there are a few small stains on the rear of the boards. The rough-cut pages are browned at the edges and one page - page 88 - has a one inch closed tear in the edge with some creasing on the top corner. The title page of the second essay also has a one inch closed tear. A few pencil marks in places and the previous owner's name written neatly on the front endpapers. No jacket. First printing.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Wilde, Oscar. [Wilde, Oscar- F. Holland Day's Copy, with his Bookplate] Intentions; the Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison.. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1891.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt vignette and lettering on cover and spine. F. Holland Day's copy, noted publisher and photographer at the Turn of the Century, with his large printed (in red) bookplate, and also from Mark Samuel Lasner's collection of Day. Top edges rough, side edges deckled as issued. The scarce first English edition, becoming increasingly more difficult to find in presentable condition. Our copy near fine internally, covers slight soiled, corners bumped; very good. Scarce and noteworthy provenance indeed.

Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, 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.