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SALOME
by Wilde, Oscar; Vassos, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1927. First edition. Very good.. First edition thus, illustrated by Vassos, of Oscar Wilde's one-act Biblical play - with plates in bold Art Deco style and flavors of Beardsley. Due to a ban on portraying Biblical figures on stage, SALOME was not performed publicly in England until 1931. This was John Vassos' first work; he would go on to apply the Art Deco aesthetic to industrial design for the RCA and others. 9.25'' x 7''. Original black boards with metallic gold-stamped titles. Black endpapers with metallic gold patterns. Lacking scarce original dust jacket. Black-and-white full-page frontispiece with 11 full-page black-and-white plates and silver metallic stars to every page. Light sunning to edges of boards, with mild shelfwear; spine ends somewhat bumped. Light soil to verso of frontispiece, occasional very light foxing to margins. Else sound and bright.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5174
- Title
- SALOME
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar; Vassos, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Art Deco,20th century,Theatre,English & British
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. TPM is a member firm of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and upholds their Code of Ethics.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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