62 pages, no slipcase. Blue cloth, with gilt spine and gilt peacocks on head, front and back. Second edition. An immaculate copy which appears unread. "The haunting story of Salome's dance for the head of John the Baptist was crystallized by Wilde into a great work of art, magnificent in its tension between barbaric and elemental savagery of theme and supreme sophistication of style and image. A profoundly human tragedy, with its surging passions of the flesh and its disturbing quest of the spirit, it is the most perfect and powerful of Wilde's dramas. Salome was written in French, and as Wilde himself disapproved of the original English version, this new translation was commissioned from the author's son, Vyvyan Holland, in 1957" From a loose insert in the book that looks like a front flap, but is more likely an advertisement for the book.