Salome
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/None as Issued
- Seller
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Plainfield, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. Copy with all illustrations by Beardsley, including the suppressed frontispiece (hermaphrodite genitalia!). Green binding with elaborate gilt design imprinted on cover and gilt on spine. Some rubbing and wear at all extremities,especially spine and top right hand front cover edge, but still very lovely and solid. Inside front and back endpapers are very shadowed, but the rest of the pages are very crisp, clean and bright. Introduction by Robert Ross. Rather sumptuous, as is fitting. . Hard Cover. Good/None as Issued. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. 8vo.
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
- The Country Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30827
- Title
- Salome
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Illustrator
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books; Victoriana; Aesthetic Movement
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays and Playwrights; Illustrated Books;
Terms of Sale
The Country Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Country Bookshop
Biblio member since 2011
Plainfield, Vermont
About The Country Bookshop
60,000 books, old postcards, and assorted paper ephemera in an old house located in the rural town of Plainfield, VT. We have been in business since 1974. We're open 7 days a week from 10 until 5.
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- New
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- Crisp
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...