Salome
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Dutton. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Black boards titled in gilt, orange topstain, decorative endpages. New uniform edition with 4 new plates. Fine condition. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine with a pen mark to spine and a few short closed edge tears, slight soil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34740
- Title
- Salome
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1930
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Uniform Edition
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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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...
- Sunned
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