SALOMÉ: A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT

by Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, play, decorations

$1,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906. First UK Trade Edition. 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

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