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Shaw, George Bernard. Love Among the Artists. Herbert S. Stone and Co., Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 12mo. 443 pages. Hardcover in green cloth. Binding is worn and the corners are bumped. Spine is toned, has damping at the headcap. Top edge of text block is gilt, which is dulled. Text is toned, has foxing.
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS. HERBERT S. STONE & COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1900.
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THIS BOOK HAS GREEN LINEN CLOTH COVERS WITH BLACK TITLES AND A FLORAL DESIGN ON THE FRONT COVER. A H. S. STONE CIRCULAR EMBLEM IN BLACK IS ON THE REAR COVER. THERE IS MINIMAL WEAR OF THE SPINE CLOTH ENDS. THERE IS MILD SOILING OF THE CLOTH AND MILD BUMPING OF THE CORNERS. THE TOP OF THE PAGE EDGES ARE IN GILT. THERE ARE TWO PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURES ON THE INNER SIDE OF THE FRONT COVER. THE BOOK WAS PRINTED BY R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. TWO PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURES ARE ON THE INNER FRONT COVER. THERE IS A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR WHO ESSENTIALLY APOLOGIZEES FOR THE NOVEL. HE EXPLAINS THAT THE BOOK IS A NOVEL THAT IS BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND IS NOT BASED ON ANY SINGULAR INDIVIDUAL. THE NOVEL IS IN TWO SO CALLED ""BOOKS''. ' THE FIRST"BOOK" HAS 14 CHAPTERS. THE SECOND BOOK CONTAINS FO UR CHAPTERS. THE BOOK IS LISTED IN KRAMER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STONE AND KIMBALL PUBLICATIONS AS NUMBER 260.
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Glenview, IL, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. Love Among the Artists. Herbert S. Stone & Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition, Hardcover. 8vo with 443 pgs. Precedes English Edition by 14 years. The book is in good condition with slight shelf wear/bumping to edges. The interior is clean and tight. The spine is green with black text. Size: 8vo
Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS. Chicago:Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Chicago:Herbert S. Stone and Company. 1900. 1st American Edition. viii+(3)-443pp, Hardcover. Green decorated boards soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges, both ends of spine strip (with small tears), and edge points gentle bumped and worn to boards. Top edges gilt. Internally, a previous owners bookplate to inside front board but otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge scattered throughout and the last free end-page having the bottom outer edge cropped, a good clean copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. Love Among the Artists. Herbert S. Stone and Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) also wrote novels; unfortunately, they were rather successful. He wrote "Love Among the Artists in 1881 as a serial where "a youthful Shaw describes his views on the arts, romantic love and the practicalities of matrimony. Dilettantes, he thinks, can love and settle down to marriage, but artists with real genius are too consumed by their work to fit that pattern" (from the Wikipedia entry). This is a Very Good (minus) copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with a stamped decorative cover and lettering in a darker green. Clean text; 443 pages. Minor bumping to corners and a tear to the top of the spine; stain on the rear cover. A previous owner has pasted two photographs of GBS to the FFEP (rather famous "mug-shots" of a young, intense, almost Rasputin-like Shaw). One of the endpapers has split, but is holding nicely. Basically a sound copy, but due to these several minor defects, not for the advanced collector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
SHAW, George Bernard.. LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS.. Herbert S. Stone and Company., Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This US edition precedes the UK edition by 14 years. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in darker green. 443 pages, complete. A good to very good copy. Hinges tight, cloth with light general dust soiling, some minor wear at edges, slight effacing to spine lettering. Uncommon.
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
SHAW, George Bernard.. Love Among the Artists.. Herbert S. Stone, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 443 pp. 12mo, publisher's green decorated cloth, t.e.g. First edition. Kramer 260; Laurence A45. Pencil initials to front endpaper; front hinge very slightly cracked; otherwise a tight, bright copy with just a touch of fading to the spine and edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS. Herbert S. Stone and Co., Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this novel, preceding the UK edition by 14 years. Originally written in 1891. Cloth slightly soiled, otherwise near fine.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
George Bernard Shaw. Love Among the Artists. H.S. Stone & Company, Eldridge Court, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in light green linen stamped in dark green; on front cover with lettering, rules and floral design; on spine with lettering; on back cover with circular monogram; gilt to top edge. Printed by Lakeside Press, Chicago. Sunning to spine, otherwise a tight, clean, scarce copy. Kramer 260 Kramer #13
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
SHAW, George Bernard. LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS. Herbert Stone, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 443. Laurence A45. In a cloth and leather case. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Back cover and hinge slightly soiled, otherwise shows little wear. Bookplate. A Shaw novel of his nonage.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. Love Among the Artists. Herbert S. Stone and Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form. 1 vols. 8vo. Kramer no. 260; " This is a famous 'Anglo-American First Edition'; being the First printing in book form of Shaw's third novel, written in the eighties." Bound in light green linen stamped in green. Fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.