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Salome
by Oscar Wilde
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Folio Press: J. M. Dent, London, 1974. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Frank martin (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Book is in very fine condition, blue binding over cloth with fine gilt spine lettering and gilt blind stamp on front. Internally book is flawless except for a small spot where a book plate was removed on front paste down. The haunting story of Salome's dance for the head of John the Baptist was crystallized by Wilde into a great work of art, magnificent in its tension between barbaric and elemental savagery of theme and supreme sophistication of style and image. A profoundly human tragedy, with its surging passions of the flesh and ots disturbing quest of the spirit, it is the most perfect and powerful of Wilde's dramas. A fine collectible.
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
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 535
- Title
- Salome
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
- Illustrator
- Frank Martin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society: J.M. Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Translated by Vyvyan Holland
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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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