Salome - A Tragedy in One Act.
by WILDE, Oscar. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrates)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Lane The Bodley Head, London., 1912. New edition. pp xxii, 82, [6] adverts. F'cap octavo. 16 black-and-white drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Original green cloth with gilt rules and device to front. Top edge gilt. 6 pages of adverts at rear. The text of the 1912 edition is considered to be the most authoritative translation from the French. The title-page carries Beardsley's hermaphroditic figure.Free endpapers tanned. Some light spotting here and there. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WILDEOSC008473
- Title
- Salome - A Tragedy in One Act.
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (illustrates)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head, London.
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- irish
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