Beardsley aubrey decorations (1 risultati)
Altre immaginiEditore: John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1906
- Prima edizione
Da: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 4 stelleMembro dell’associazione: ABAA
Condizione: Usato
EUR 1117,20
EUR 4,77 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst UK Trade Edition. 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.
