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Shaw, George Bernard. Passion play. A dramatic fragment 1878. Jerald E. Bringle, Editor. AT the Windhover Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1971.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: - narrow folio, 61 pp., white linen spine, printed paper label, blue patterened paper boards, top edge trimmed, others uncut, printed on Italian Umbria handmade paper, Printed in red, brown, blue, and black. Roman type - One of 350 numbered copies printed by hand at the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa in conjunction with Bertram Rota of London & with the original natural linen covered slipcase - a fine bright copy in vg slipcase with a small coffee splash at the rear lower edge. a fine production of this previously unpublished juvenalia, a bitchy portrait of Jesus and family. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

Seller: Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB), Port Colborne, ON, Canada

Shaw, George Bernard. Passion play. A dramatic fragment 1878. Jerald E. Bringle, editor. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1971.

Price: US$156.25 + shipping

Description: First edition limited to 350 copies, folio, pp. [61]; printed in red, blue and black in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper; a few minor pencil annotations in the margins but generally a fine copy in linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Shaw, George Bernard. Passion play. A dramatic fragment 1878. Jerald E. Bringle, editor. Windhover Press, Iowa [City], 1971.

Price: US$156.25 + shipping

Description: First edition limited to 350 copies (this, no. 63); folio, pp. [62]; printed in red, blue and black in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper; a fine copy in linen-backed blue paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase. From the library of Kim Merker. This is one of 250 copies with the imprint "Iowa: at the Windhover Press, 1971." Nos. 251-350 bore the imprint of "London: Bertram Rota Ltd., 1971." Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 47: "This was Shaw's first attempt at play writing."

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Shaw, G.B.. Passion Play. A Dramatic Fragment, 1878. John E. Bringle, Editor. Bertram Rota, London, 1971.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, No. 45 of 350 copies. Printed at the Windhover Press in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper. (62) pp. 1 vols. 4to. Berger 47; Laurence A298 Linen-backed pastepaper over boards, label. In cream linen slipcase. Fine, with prospectus First edition, No. 45 of 350 copies. Printed at the Windhover Press in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Passion Play. A Dramatic Fragment, 1878. John E. Bringle, Editor. Bertram Rota, London, 1971.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, Number 334 of 350 copies. Printed at the Windhover Press in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper. (62) pp. 1 vols. 4to. Berger 47; Laurence A298 Linen-backed pastepaper over boards, label. In cream linen slipcase. Fine, with prospectus First edition, Number 334 of 350 copies. Printed at the Windhover Press in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Shaw, Bernard. Passion Play. A Dramatic Fragment, 1878.. The Windhover Press, Iowa, 1971.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 350 numbered copies printed by hand at the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa in conjunction with Bertram Rota of London. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Jerald E. Bringle. Small folio. (58pp.). Printed in red, brown, blue, and black. Roman type on Italian Umbria paper. Linen-backed decorated boards, paper label. A very fine copy with slightly soiled cloth slipcase.

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Shaw (George Bernard). Edited by Jerald E. Bringle. Passion Play; a dramatic fragment 1878. Windhover Press, Iowa, and Bertram Rota Ltd,, 1971.

Price: US$269.36 + shipping

Description: One of 350 numbered copies in Romanée in red, grey, blue and black on Italian Umbria Folio Fine copy in slipcase; with Press announcement loosely inserted as well as K.K. Merker’s poem "Poem for Con", 4 pages, Aralia Press, 1977, published to celebrate the opening of the K.K. Merker exhibit ".Serving the Muse, The Stone Wall and the Windhover Press (1956-1996) at the Grolier Club. Quarter white cloth, spine with printed label, patterned boards, uncut

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom