SALOME

Book Description

London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. cloth and wraps. Fine in solid slipcase with short split at upper rear edge. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #722 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 cloth, is the English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations from the first edition by Aubrey Beardsley including four omitted from the original. Very minor wrinkling to the covers of the wrappers volume, less than with most copies we have seen, but with none of the internal foxing so typical to this volume which, in this case, still has its glassine present.

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