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Three Sirens Press was a
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based publisher active in the 1930s. It specialized in high quality editions of classic books, mostly books illustrated by well known illustrators. Examples include: *
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
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Salome Salome (; he, שְלוֹמִית, Shlomit, related to , "peace"; el, Σαλώμη), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II, son of Herod the Great, and princess Herodias, granddaughter of Herod the Great, an ...
'' illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (with some of the illustrations "sanitized") * Oscar Wilde's '' The Picture of Dorian Gray'' illustrated by Lui Trugo *
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...
’s '' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' illustrated By Richard Rogers * '' The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' illustrated by Gustave Doré * AristophanesLysistrata, the Grecian temptress illustrated By Norman Lindsay * '' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'' illustrated By Edmund Sullivan * '' Samuel Pepys' Diary'' illustrated By Randolph Adler Three Sirens Press books were elegantly designed, well made and nicely bound.


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