Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic As Artist; The Truth of Masks
by Wilde, Oscar (1856-1900)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: The Unicorn Press, 1945. 1945 edition, first published 1891. Bright green cloth printed in gilt, gray printed dustjacket. The book is in good condition, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is in fair condition, not priceclipped and has edgewear, shelf soil, old tape on spine ends, almost no paper loss.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046684
- Title
- Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic As Artist; The Truth of Masks
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar (1856-1900)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- The Unicorn Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- ESSAYS LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...