Author: WILDE, Oscar
Title: Salome
Description: London, Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #1485 of 1500 numbered copies. The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. The other volume, in gilt-decorated red cloth, is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations from the first edition by Aubrey Beardsley including four omitted from the original. Ill.: Andre Derain and Aubrey Beardsley. Darkening to the text pages opposite the plates by Derain, as usual. Slight sunning to the spine of the hardcover volume. Near Fine with glassine on the wrappers volume only in a Very Good slipcase with minor splitting and edgewear .

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