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Bernard Shaw. Flyleaves. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, TX, 1977.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very sharp copy of the 1977 1st edition, one of only 350 copies issued. Clean and Fine in its russet cloth. Quarto, edited with an Introduction by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (whose personal copy this was). Beautifully printed and designed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8 1/4 inches x 11 1/4 in., half-title; title-page with design border printed in brown; dedication page; contents; introduction; 62 pp. + printer's limitation page. With two fold-out reproductions of the Hamlet & Mr. Badman flyleaves; Shaw's marginalia to Bunyan's Mr. Badman, and postscript. Notes and acknowledgments on the books. Red-brown textured cloth over boards, with a mounted, printed paper title label on the spine; brown paste-paper endpapers with a "GBS Flyleaves" design. Contents: book titles: Shakespeare: Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke (The Cranach Press, 1930); Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Facsimile of the 1623 First Folio, Methuen, 1910); Dante Alighieri: Tutte Le Opere (Ashendene Press, 1909); Sir Thomas Malory: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur [Le Morte Darthur](Illustrated by Beardsley; Dent, Third Edition, 1927); Sir Edward Elgar: The Severn Suite (London, R. Smith, 1930); T. E. Lawrence: A Letter to His Mother (Corvinus Press, 1936); T. E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A triumph (London: privately Printed, 1926); John Bunyan: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (Illustrated by George W. & Louis Rhead; Heinemann, 1900).
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Text of flyleaf inscriptions written by Shaw in 8 books in his library; these books were sold at auction on July 25, 1949. "350 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa." Erratum slip inserted.62 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : 2 facsimiles ; 29 cm. Contents: William Shakespeare: The tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke.--William Shakespeare: Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies.--Dante Alighieri: Tutte le opere.--Sir Thomas Malory: The birth, life and acts of King Arthur (Le Morte Darthur).--Sir Edward Elgar: The Severn suite.--T.E. Lawrence: A letter to his mother.--T.E. Lawrence: Seven pillars of wisdom, a triumph.--John Bunyan: The life and death of Mr. Badman. Later in life when Shaw needed money, he sold many of his books at auction and tried to increase their value by writing in the flyleaves. This book gathers these autobiographical sketches together for the first time. Foldout facsimiles.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy in original terracotta linen, paper spine title label, small 4to., 62pp, (1p.) two facsimile folding leaves. One of 350 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press, with his paste paper endpapers, and inscribed by him at the colophon. Scarce Errata slip laid in. Also laid in the original prospectus. Features two TE Lawrence titles. O'Brien F0958
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: One of 350 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. 4to; red buckram with printed paper spine label; 62,[3],2 folding plates, printed in red and black, errata slip laid in. A fine copy, but for scattered ink marginalia to text and rear pastedown in the hand of the book's original owner, the noted Minneapolis collector and arts patron Waring W. Jones. Laid in are two typed letters from publisher Thomas Taylor to the Minnesota fine press printer Emerson Wulling, proposing an exchange of books. Transcriptions of Shaw's own marginalia, contrived in 1949 and written in copies of the best books in his collection to enhance their value at auction. The scheme, which the impoverished 93-year-old Shaw admitted was "a trick to make money," was only half-successful, as many of the best lots fell flat at Sotheby's. This a compelling copy, with ink annotations of a noted American bibliophile and a pair of good letters from the publisher.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.