Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1930 edition with the original dust jacket with light creasing and chipping. Light bowing to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome . Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication, translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie" himself) and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75 years, served as the text...