For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque
by WILDE, Oscar [Mrs. Chan Toon]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good-
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
London: Methuen, 1922. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good-. Octavo, 39pp. A very good copy in the publisher's white cloth, stamped in gilt. Thin dust-soiling to extremities. In the uncommon dust jacket, chipped at a few corners, but overall about very good, with a faint ring stain on the front panel. Limited to 1000 unnumbered copies on handmade paper. This volume was purported to be a posthumously-discovered manuscript of Oscar Wilde's, though it was later revealed to be a forgery by Mabel Cosgrove Wodehouse Pearse (AKA Mrs. Chan Toon), an Irish novelist. Despite this unhappy history, nevertheless an important volume in the wider Wilde bibliographical canon.
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- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8480
- Title
- For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar [Mrs. Chan Toon]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Plays, Drama
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About the Seller
Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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