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SALOME, A PLAY IN ONE ACT
by WILDE, OSCAR
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1973. AEG. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Silk bookmark. Bound in Japanese style with top edges uncut. This edition was translated from the French of the author by Lord Alfred Douglas. Illustrations by Vanenti Angelo. The play was first published in 1891. 51pp.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Orange-brown Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014880
- Title
- SALOME, A PLAY IN ONE ACT
- Author
- WILDE, OSCAR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- The Collector's Library of Famous Editio
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fine Binding, Theater, Plays, Wilde
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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