Salome
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Williams, Belasco & Meyers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, salmon endpapers, top edge blue, fore-edge deckle, printed on fine, thick stock. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. . Covers very mildly soiled, else fine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. . New Classics Library Series. B&W Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 67, (16-Plates) pp .
Synopsis
Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome. Salome dances the Dance of the Seven Veils so well that she receives a boon from her stepfather Herod Antipas. Much to his dismay and her mother's delight she requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Though John is a favorite of Herod and under his protection, Herod cannot rescind his boon.Wilde originally wrote the play in French, and it was translated three years later into English.
Reviews
On Jan 29 2016, a reader said:
I have number 183. This is a wonderful illustration book. Every page is a work of art not to mention the Wilde part of it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18048
- Title
- Salome
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Illustrator
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Williams, Belasco & Meyers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Plays, Drama, Literature;, Illustrated Books, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theatre & Performing Arts;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Fine
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
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