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Salome
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise book is fine./Price clipped dust jacket is a little soiled. Edges a somewhat frayed with several shallow chips and closed tears.
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Illustrated Editions Company, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-9/16". Red cloth cover. Beveled boards. Black cloth spine stamped in gold. 120 pp. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise book is fine./Price clipped dust jacket is a little soiled. Edges a somewhat frayed with several shallow chips and closed tears.. Sixteen Drawings Aubrey Beardsley.
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
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1945
- Title
- Salome
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Illustrator
- Sixteen Drawings Aubrey Beardsley
- Format/Binding
- 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-9/16". Red cloth cover. Beveled boards. Black cloth spine stamped in gold. 120 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise book is fine.
- Jacket Condition
- Price clipped dust jacket is a little soiled. Edges a somewhat frayed with several shallow chips and closed tears.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Illustrated Editions Company
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Frogtown Books, Inc.
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Frogtown Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2022
Toledo, Ohio
About Frogtown Books, Inc.
Online store with a selection of used, rare and out of print books, autographs and Hollywood memorabilia.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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