Salomé. A Tragedy in One Act

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907.

Translated into English from Wilde's original French by Lord Alfred Douglas. First edition thus, with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia. 8vo. pp xx, [4], 66, [2] advertisements. 16 plates, on Japanese vellum, by Aubrey Beardsley, plus the casts for the first performance of the play in England in 1905 and for the première of Richard Strauss's opera Decorative green buckram with heavily gilt front and gilt title lettering to spine. Includes. Top edge gilt. Half-title present; without old inscriptiions etc; scattered spots of foxing to endpapers back and front; covers bright and clean. A near fine copy.