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Wilde, Oscar. Salome. John Lane, London, 1907.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Incomplete. Lacks four plates but has the suppressed title page. Some rubbing of covers. Some wear at extremities. Glue darkening inside covers and on end papers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. Salome A Tragedy in One Act. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1907.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: With 16 black and white plates (including suppressed frontispiece, title page and contents marginalia) by Aubrey Beardsley, copy of 'The Harlot's House' by Oscar Wilde pasted in at the end of Robert Ross' introduction, xviii, [8], 65pp, [5]. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped design to front board, gilt titlea to spine, gilt top edge. Octavo. Section of spine torn, rear board darkened, corners and spine edges worn, front ffep stuck down with 2.5cm high strip cut away from bottom edge of first three leaves, and small triangle from bottom of fourth, sections loose and rear hinge split, plates largely clean and front board reasonably bright, poor condition.
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Wilde, Oscar. Salome. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London & New York, 1907.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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. Size: 8vo
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar & Beardsley, Aubrey. Salome. John Lane / Bodley Head, 1907.
Price: US$834.25 + shipping
Description: Salome, John Lane / Bodley Head, 1907, first edition thus, small area of minor bubbling to the rear cloth cover, else just about fine with all the Beardsley plates present and in fine condition. A large paper copy with extended (uncut) margins.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Wilde, Oscar. Salome - A Tragedy in One Act. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1907.
Price: US$1030.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [12], xiii-xviii, [8], 65pp, [5]. Original gilt decorated cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed to extremities, lower cover very slightly soiled. Some browning to endpapers, occasional light marking to margins, but generally fairly bright and clean. Bookplate of previous owner (M. A. Gouldsmith) to front pastedown. With sixteen designs by Beardsley on Japanese vellum. Housed in a cloth slipcase. Mason 355 Size: 8vo
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Description: First edition thus: with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia. Royal octavo. pp xx, [4], 66, [2] adverts. Decorated buckram gilt. Four page introduction, A Note on 'Salomé' , by Robert Ross. Cover design and sixteen plates, on Japanese vellum, by Aubrey Beardsley. Translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. Includes the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera. Top edge gilt.On the rear free endpaper is a much-faded gift inscription from a member of the San Francisco Haas family. The inscription includes the address 2007 Van Ness Avenue, which is now the Haas-Lilienthal House, one of only two house museums in the city.Endpapers faintly tanned. Rear cover partially darkened. Small bump to bottom edge of rear cover. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom