WILDE, OscarABAA
Aubrey Beardsley Alfred Bruce WildeBiblio.com
Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
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1973ref. 102152Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1973. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Lord Alfred Douglas. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fine in a near fine slipcase. ; 51 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1973ref. 95833Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Fine. 1973. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Lord Alfred Douglas. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. A reprint edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fine in a fine slipcase. ; 51 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1946ref. 71001Buenos Aires:: Privately Issued. Very Good. 1946. Paperback. Volume II only. Text is in Spanish. Limited edition: this copy is number 17 of 28 copies. SIGNED by Anibal Bargas Nigoul. Fine unbound folio sized sheets in near fine age toning illustrated wraps with glassine cover. Housed in a very good three inch tear at the top of the front joint moderate shelf wear blue cloth slipcase. ; 97 pages . Privately Issued, paperback
1946ref. 71001Buenos Aires:: Privately Issued. Very Good. 1946. Paperback. Volume II only. Text is in Spanish. Limited edition: this copy is number 17 of 28 copies. SIGNED by Anibal Bargas Nigoul. Fine unbound folio sized sheets in near fine age toning illustrated wraps with glassine cover. Housed in a very good three inch tear at the top of the front joint moderate shelf wear blue cloth slipcase. ; 97 pages . Privately Issued, paperback books
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1967ref. Q-0486218309Dover Publications 1967-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dover Publications paperback
ref. 63640080University of Virginia Press . Hardback. New. pp. 108 University of Virginia Press hardcover
ref. 9375548139.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1927ref. 49809New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1927. First Trade Edition. Small Quarto; black boards stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers; illustrated dust jacket; 57pp. Thirteen plates featuring illustrations by Vassos including frontispiece complete. Mild shelfwear to boards and spine very slightly cocked; binding sound and pages unmarked. Dust jacket chipped with several tears and tape mending to verso; colors remain bright; still about a Very Good copy. E.P. Dutton & Company unknown
1906ref. 1416187John Lane 1906. Hardcover. VG-/No Jacket. used hardcover copy lacking a dust jacket as issued. Aubrey Beardley illustrated front cover off white boards are rather discolored with age though still quite legible. light shelfwear corners slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. John Lane hardcover
1912ref. mon0001000944Bodley Head 1912. Hardback. Very Good. in x in x in. New edition. Pages clean and bright no markings light wear to edges. Binding tight. Review copy with the publisher's blind stamp on the title-pagernRubbing to corners and edges of spine. With 16 drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Bodley Head hardcover
1930ref. 1534new york: williams belasco & meyers 1930. 1930. a tragedy in one act: translated from the french of wilde with sixteen drawings by beardsley. new york: williams belasco & meyers. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. 65 sheets. hardcover. bound in deep blue cloth-covered boards. deckled edges. book condition: slight shealf-wear. owner's gift inscription to front free-endpaper. near fine. no dust jacket as issue. williams, belasco & meyers unknown
ref. 101653Book Collectors Association Inc. Publisher's green cloth with gilt title on spine. Clean text and interior. Tight square binding. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Dust jacket uniformly lightly soiled but with a pea-sized stain on the front cover see picture. Uncommon with dust jacket. Undated. 0. Illus. by Aubrey Beardsley. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book Collectors Association Inc. hardcover
1973ref. 310591Connecticut: Easton Press 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded bottom and side edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Notes from publisher neatly laid in.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
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ref. 0265200296.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1930ref. 23392New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1930. Salome: A Tragedy in One Act. Second edition "new edition". 60 pp. Illustrated with four new designs by John Vassos. Issued as a new edition uniform with The Ballad of Reading Gaol and The Harlot's House and Other Poems. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. First Vassos-illustrated trade edition. 124 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos with tissue guards over the plates. The Harlot's House and Other Poems. First Vassos-illustrated edition. 102 pp. Illustrated by John Vassos. With presentation inscription to Francis Heisler noted civil-liberties lawyer and defender of COs in landmark mid-century cases dated December 7 1930 signed with the initials "E.S.T." incorporating a quotation from Thomas S. Jones Jr.'s poem "Dusk at Sea." The three volumes are in their original Art Deco bindings & dust jackets designed by John Vassos. They are preserved together in a contemporary specially constructed striking black-and-gold geometric Art Deco slipcase purpose-built to accommodate the complete group. The slipcase closely reflects Vassos's distinctive Art Deco aesthetic. Dutton is documented as having issued Vassos/Wilde volumes with slipcases although surviving institutional records do not conclusively establish this particular three-volume case as a standard Dutton issue. These three volumes represent a purposefully conceived Dutton uniform series of Oscar Wilde works illustrated by John Vassos. Dutton issued The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1928 and The Harlot's House and Other Poems in 1929 followed by the 1930 "new edition" of Salome which was specifically described as "uniform with" the preceding two Vassos-illustrated volumes. The three books were therefore deliberately designed and presented by Dutton as a related group of Vassos-illustrated Wilde editions. E. P. Dutton & Co unknown
1918ref. 072266London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1918. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 65pp pale green/grey pictorial boards with title in black to spine. Shelfworn boards faded and toned particularly at spine corners very rubbed and bumped. Small dents to board edges in places and spine partly cracked externally at joins with front and rear boards. Tears at top and bottom of spine cracking to spine at top of fep. Toning to pages previous owner's name in ink to top of fep. Toning to pages and eps mild foxing to eps and page edges. John Lane, The Bodley Head Hardcover
1945ref. 22520New York: The Heritage Press 1945. Fine/Very Good Slipcase. OSCAR WILDE'S SALOME TRANSFORMED INTO A DECORATIVE BOOK. An especially attractive Heritage Press production of Wilde's one-act tragedy conceived as an integrated work of book design by Valenti Angelo. Angelo surrounds the text with elaborate floral and Near Eastern-inspired ornament full-page illustrations decorative endpapers and hand-applied illumination. The Lord Alfred Douglas translation is accompanied by Holbrook Jackson's introduction which places Salome within Wilde's career and discusses the play's controversial publication and theatrical history. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: FRENCH-FOLDED LEAVES WITH DECORATION THROUGHOUT. Black cloth over boards with multiple blind-stamped borders and a large blind-stamped figure of Salome on both covers; gilt spine titles. Housed in the publisher's black slipcase. Slipcase approximately 10.5 inches tall. 51 pages. The text block is constructed from French-folded leaves with the sheets folded at the fore-edge to create double leaves. Each opening is extensively decorated with Angelo's yellow and gold-toned ornamental borders which change throughout the volume. Decorated endpapers; illustrated title-page spread; full-page color illustrations and decorative devices throughout. Angelo was responsible for both the illustration and overall book design. Contemporary descriptions record five full-page color illustrations in addition to the title vignette and other decoration. CONDITION: FINE IN A VERY GOODSLIPCASE. Binding tight and square cloth clean blind-stamped decoration distinct and gilt spine titles bright. Interior clean and fresh with the decorative pages and illustrations retaining strong color. Publisher's slipcase with light wear at the corners of the opening. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - VALENTI ANGELO AND THE BOOK AS DECORATIVE OBJECT. Salome written by Wilde in French in 1891 and first published in 1893 became one of his most visually interpreted works most famously through Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for the English edition. PRODUCTION BUILT AROUND THE ARTIST'S DESIGN. For the Heritage Press edition Valenti Angelo created an entirely different visual treatment integrating illustration typography ornament binding design and hand illumination into the physical structure of the book. Angelo was a prolific designer and illustrator for both the Heritage Press and Limited Editions Club and this edition is among the Heritage Press titles for which he supplied the complete decorative program. The result is particularly successful as an example of mid-century American illustrated book production: Wilde's decadent biblical drama recast through Angelo's highly stylized decorative vocabulary. SUBJECTS: Oscar Wilde Salome Valenti Angelo Lord Alfred Douglas Holbrook Jackson Heritage Press Book Design Hand Illumination Decorative Binding Biblical Drama Decadent Literature Fine Printing Fine Press Illustrated Books Drama Decorative Book Arts Heritage Press Literary Classics. The Heritage Press unknown
1927ref. 0854898New York New York U.S.A.: E. P. Dutton 1927. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover -. Very Good/No Jacket. Inventions by John Vassos. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. In black paper covered boards with gilt titling to spine and upper cover 4to 57pp. #363 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by Illustrator John Vassos on limitations page. Scarce. light fading at spine and top edge of rear board faint line mark to upper cover 3/4 inch from spine. E. P. Dutton unknown
1894ref. 140949078London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition in English of Wilde's seminal one-act tragedy and the first to feature Aubrey Beardsley's lavishly unrestrained illustrations. One of 500 copies. xii 67 1 16 ads illustrated with frontispiece 9 full page plates and singular tailpiece. Bound in publisher's blue canvas cloth decoratively stamped in gilt after design by Beardsley. Near Fine with light sunning to spine and edges light foxing to cloth. Offsetting to front endsheets and armorial bookplate to pastedown there contents lightly tanned. A beautiful copy of a definitive work of the Decadent movement. Composed initially in French Wilde allegedly intended for Sarah Bernhardt to play Salome in hopes of bypassing strict British censors although it was inevitably banned by Lord Chamberlain due to the depiction of biblical characters. The play premiered on February 11 1896 at the Theatre de l'Oeuvre in Paris starring Lina Munte and directed by Lugne-Poe. Rave reviews ensued and later adaptions followed most notably Richard Strauss' Dresden production which premiered in 1905. The radical work served as a direct affront to Victorian moral standards and cemented the femme fatale archetype for future avant-garde luminaries. Mason 350. Elkin Mathews & John Lane unknown
1938ref. 4218London England: Limited Editions Club 1938. First edition thus limited. Hardcover/softcover. Near Fine/Very Good/Good. Burgundy cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title and decoration deckled edges B&W prints on cream-colored paper text in English Salome/Beardsley. White paper wraps in folded black paper covers with pink and white titles deckled edges illus. gouache/pochoir prints to black paper text in French Salomé/Derain. Together in maroon slipcase. Signed by Derain to colophon and hand-numbered 1270 of 1500 copies. Subscription card present IX. Previous owner's bookplate to both books. Heavily warped black paper covers from original vinyl encasement not extant foxing to textblock edge and endpapers Salomé/Derain. Slipcase: spine faded heavy edgewear foxing. Limited Editions Club hardcover
ref. 326453John Lane 1912. FIRST EDITION THUS super octavo green buckram boards gilt lettering to spine gilt lettering & illus/decoration to front board teg illus prelims xviii 66pp illus/plates VG light bruising to spine & board extrems light chafing & soiling to boards minor water damage/staining to boase of rear board & rear eps light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps occasional sl foxing & soiling to page block John Lane 1912 hardcover
1927ref. 86819New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1927. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. John Vassos. Wide octavo 9.5 in. x 7.1 in. pp. 57. Illustrated with thirteen full page black and white plates "inventions" by John Vassos. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Fading to top edge and bottom right corner of front board and to top of spine. Decorated endpapers. Interior pages decorated with silver constellation of stars. Remnant of bookplate to front flyleaf. One inch bump to fore-edge of preliminary pages. Large closed tears and stains to dustjacket. Sunning to dustjacket spine. Wilde's retelling of the tale of King Herod Jokannen and Salome who dances for the king in exchange for whatever she requests and her request Well worth reading the story masterfully illustrated in black and white by John Vassos. John Vassos gained acclaim as an illustrator prior to his rise as an industrial designer. Between 1927-1935 Vassos illustrated many books including Salome Ballad of Reading Gaol and The Harlot's House and Other Poems - three literary works by Oscar Wilde published by E.P. Dutton. Vassos's iconic subjective illustrations were influenced by cinema and reflected cubist and constructivist geometrical styles." As in Salome Vassos's originals ".were often in black and white gouache opaque watercolor and well suited for reproduction in mass media." Wikipedia. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
ref. 1015414788.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
