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WILDE, Oscar.. Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde.. , 1906.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: 65pp John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1906. Front cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Backstrip missing, covers slightly marked, contents very good.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: 1st edn trade. 12mo (6¾ x 5¼ ins). Original pictorial paper-laid boards (illus by Aubrey Beardsley - bright VG). Pp. [vi] + 66 + [2] publisher's catalogue (neat red number on front free endpaper; no other inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. 16mo. (16.5cm); beige paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations printed in olive green on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; dustjacket; [viii],66 +[2]pp ads. Gentle sunning to spine, some trivial wear to extremities, with a hint of foxing to lower text edges, and a few faint scuffs to rear cover; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustjacket by Aubrey Bearsley, spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, with a few small nicks and tears, and some shallow loss to spine ends; Very Good+. Attractive edition of Wilde's tragic play, first appearing in French in 1893, telling in one act the Biblical story of Salomé, step-daughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her step-father's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils. Scarce in dustjacket. Mason 352; Samuels Lasner 59c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.