Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First US ed. Minor rubbing at edges. Light shelf wear. Occasional minor foxing, overall pages clean. Boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. P34
Seller: Rain Dog Books, Bloomington, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean brown cloth boards with white line drawing of a prizefighter on cover, black lettering and black line border on cover; black lettering on spine. Very slight rubbing to prizefighter's right arm on cover. Tiny spots of wear to top spine corners. Pages are clean, with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Front hinge had some cracking, has been professionally reglued. 376 pages.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. [xxvi], 376 pp. Cloth binding, Embossed dark brown lettering and cover design, very good copy. (42983).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. Cashel Byron's Profession. Herbert S. Stone and Company, Chicago, 1901.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Near Fine copy bound in brown cloth stamped in black and white on front cover, black on spine. Publisher's emblem, stamped in black, on back cover. TEG. Minimal shelf rubbing to tips of spine and covers. Mild yellowing to text. Full title: "Cashel Byron's Profession. Newly Revised with Several Prefaces and an Essay on Prizefighting. Also The Admiral Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded being the Novel of Cashel Byron's Profession done into the Stage Play in Three Acts and in Blank Verse."
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. (xxvi) 376pp. [1]. Illustrated brown cloth boards, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Pages uncut and unopened. Top edge gilt. This is the first American edition of George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel, and includes the The Admirable Bashville, a short play which the author loosely based on the previous work (1901). Prizefighter illustration in white on the front cover. Binding with minor rubbing to extremities. Interior with some light age toning to the edges of pages. Binding and interior in very good+ condition overall. Protected by modern mylar.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago:Herbert S. Stone and Company. 1901. xxvi+376pp. Hardcover. Decorated boards lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with light wear along edges and edge points gentle bumped. Internally end pages lightly age-toned with previous owners name to top of 1st free end-page with some off-set to inside front board, and another signature, partially erased, to 2nd free end-page but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight with hinged intact.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in chocolate-brown linen; stamped on front cover with figure of a pugilist in white, lettering including legend "Authorized Edition" in black, all within black rule border; spine lettered in black; device five in black on back cover; gilt to top edge. Printed by Lakeside Press, Chicago. "The Admiral Bashville" has separate half-title and title pp (305-8). Slight sunning to spine, otherwise a tight, clean, scarce copy. Kramer 283 Kramer #13
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co, 1901. This is the "Authorized Edition" of the great Irish playwright's first book. First American Edition Thus. The previous American printings were pirated; Shaw added more material to obtain American copyright protection. This is a Very Good copy. Brown cloth binding with black lettering, blindstamped front cover with the figure of a prize-fighter in white. Untrimmed pages; gilt topedge (somewhat faded); faint waterstain on the bottom of the spine; mild bumps to corners. This is an ASSOCIATION COPY: an attractive contemporary bookplate on the front paste-down identifies this copy from the library of Ella Woodward Foote (b. 1857), a California poet (work available in LoC). No dustjacket. Withal, an attractive copy of an important work by Shaw. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
George Bernard Shaw. CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION. Herbert S Stone, Chicago, 1901.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Appears little read.Clean and tight. Light tanning to pages.No inscription or marking.Tiny rubbed area on spine.Page fore edge is uncut.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION. , 1901.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Description: Newly Revised with several prefaces and an essay on prizefighting. Also The Admirable Bashville. Or, Constancy Unrewarded. Being the novel of Cashel Byron's Profession done into a stage play in three acts and in blank verse. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. Original mottled brown cloth with pugilist in white. First Authorized American Edition of Shaw's first book, a prizefighting tale. It was first published in London in 1886, in wrappers, preceded only by a couple of Fabian tracts. Later that year, both Munro and Harper came out with American pirated editions, also in wrappers. This 1901 edition was issued simultaneously with the third English edition, so as to protect the American copyright of the dramatic version, "The Admirable Bashville" (hence its separate title page and copyright notice herein). This copy is in the primary binding, with the publisher's spine imprint all in capitals. This is an unusually clean, fine copy. Laurence A3f.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition thus: the revised and "Authorized Edition" adding Shaw's play version and "A Note on Modern Prizefighting." 8vo brown cloth boards stamped in black and white; top edge gilt. Spine darkened and lightly stained, endpapers tanned, otherwise very good. From the collection of sports writer and former boxer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his copious penciled notations on rear endpaper.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. Cashel Byron's Profession. Herbert S. Stone, Chicago, 1901.
Price: US$215.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. First Authorized American Edition (after two pirated editions) of Shaw's first novel. 7.5" x 5", 376 pp. First State binding of chocolate brown cloth with black and white imprinting. Top page edges gilt, other edges uncut. Quaint old bookseller's stamp affixed to ffep, for those who collect those. Other than light dustwear and edgewear, a flawless copy, Near Fine. Certainly one of the best available copies of the first American edition of George Bernard Shaw's first novel, in its earliest state. "Cashel Byron's Profession" is Shaw's droll tale of a professional prizefighter and his adventures in life. Included at the end is Admirable Bashville (or, Constancy Unrewarded), the three-act play version of the novel, and a nice Shaw essay on boxing, "Modern Prizefighting". L32
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Revised and Authorized edition. xxvi, 376 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. FINE COPY. Laurence A3f; Kramer no. 283 Original tan cloth with prizfighter depicted in white on cover in primary binding with publisher's name on spine in caps. Fine. In half red morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of Donald Stralem First American Revised and Authorized edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.