Herodias, translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Clark Mills.
by Kurt SELIGMANN. (Stéphane Mallarmé)
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About This Item
Prairie City, IL.: The Press of James A. Decker., 1940. Original cloth, with title in gilt to front cover (titles on spine slightly faded).. (22.8 x 15.1 cm).. pp. 38. Tipped-in frontispiece + original etching. The first appearance of Clark Mills's translation of Mallarmé's poem Herodias (an unfinished imagining of the story of Salome), printing the English translation and French original on facing pages. Published in an edition of 300 copies, with this one of only 20 édition de tête copies bound in cloth (numbered A-T), signed by Seligmann and Clark Mills on the colophon page, and with an original etching by Kurt Seligmann bound in as the frontispiece (the remaining copies only have the tipped-in reproduction of the etching).
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- Bookseller
- Tim Byers Art Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1301
- Title
- Herodias, translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Clark Mills.
- Author
- Kurt SELIGMANN. (Stéphane Mallarmé)
- Format/Binding
- Original cloth, with title in gilt to front cover (titles on spine slightly faded).
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Press of James A. Decker.
- Place of Publication
- Prairie City, IL.
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- (22.8 x 15.1 cm).
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