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Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Cloth soiled; lower leading corners bumped; tanning to endpapers, pastedowns; bookplate of Joseph Fisher Loewi front pastedown.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. 407 pp. Very Good, Mustard Cloth with rubbing, stains, sun-fading, edge wear; minor staining on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle, his bookplate inside cover. Mylar Jacket. One of 7500 copies. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Description: 1st ed. thus hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo xciv + 407, Collected edition, published the same year as the first. No dust jacket o/w nice copy in pale green boards
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Description: Octavo, original sea green cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Shaw is perhaps the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare. Laurence A108a. Mild dust soiling to cloth, a tight, very good copy. (#128959)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Laurence A108 Original pale green cloth, t.e.g. Almost fine. In quarter red morocco slipcase with chemise Bookplate of Donald Stralem
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A FIRST EDITION/SECOND IMPRESSION, 94 pp. (xciv) Preface to The Doctor's Dilemma 407 pp 4 pp. book ads at the rear of the book. This book is exceptional for the following reasons. First of all it is in the original dust-jacket which may or may not vary from the First Edition/First Impression.with this being the second impression of the first edition within the same year. There is minor discoloration to the boards which would be only due to the dust-jacket reacting to the cloth since they have always been together. There is also minor discoloration on the inside front/rear paste-downs from the original dust-jacket as well. The spine is clean and bright. Otherwise book is in wonderful condition with the (TEG) Top of page edges gilt and very bright with pages uncut. Inside the book is some additional related ephemera that have been with the book probably from the outset. The items consist of the publishers advertising broadside 6 3/4" x 4 1/4" depicting a photo of Shaw on the front and a list of Shaw's Works on the verso. Also inserted with book was a newspaper clipping of a LECTURE ON G.B. SHAW."Dr. Marshall Macdonald lectured last evening in the chemistry room of the Otago University on "George Bernard Shaw, Poet and Journalist," to an auditory that quite filled the chamber. The chair was taken by Dr. Gilray, and musical selections were given by the Knox Church orchestra and by the Knox Church quartet party previous to Dr. Macdonald proceeding with his lecture" etc. etc."At the conclusion of the lecture which was in aid of the missionary settlement for missionary women, Dr. Macdonald was accorded a hearty vote of thanks." At the bottom of the article it states: "British regular soldiers in the Indian army are maintained by the Indian tax payer, though they are under the control of the War Office in London." The last item to be included (Found inside) this book is a "CARRERAS HIGH-CLASS CIGARETTES" card. "A series of 25 Famous Men. No. 3 Mr. Geo. Bernard Shaw" City Road London E.C.1.The card states that he was a "Life-long vegetarian" (I didn't know that!) MINT CONDITION CARD
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1208.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by Constable & Company Ltd, London in 1911. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light pushing to the spine ends. Light darkening to the edges with a few slight age related markings to the covers. The gilt titling to the spine remains bright. Light toning to the text-block with a little light toning to the page edges. Free from inscriptions. Mild offsetting to the blank end-papers. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good+ condition. Some loss to the spine ends but not involving any lettering. Slight loss to the upper corners with toning to the spine, folds and edges. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The first collective edition of the texts in English, preceded by earlier German publication of the constituent plays. 7500 copies were printed. Shaw stated that he wrote 'The Doctor's Dilemma' to meet a challenge from his friend William Archer, a theatre critic, who claimed that Shaw could only be regarded as a supreme dramatist when he had written a play about death. The resultant work, a satire on the British medical profession in the early 20th century, remains widely regarded as a key work in Shaw's canon and in the fictional literature on medical ethics. The other two plays in the collection were first performed in 1908 and 1909 respectively and are here also published for the first time (Laurence A108). Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$1908.03 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by Shaw to his Italian agent and translator Antonio Agresti on the half-title: "To Antonio Agresti from G. Bernard Shaw 23rd. Feb. 1911". The titular work was one of many plays of Shaw's that Agresti translated before his death, helping Shaw to reach an Italian audience. Agresti had been partly chosen by Shaw as his translator for his anarchist beliefs, and he was a member of anarchist circles in both London and in Italy. Shaw stated that he wrote The Doctor's Dilemma to meet a challenge from his friend William Archer, a theatre critic, who claimed that Shaw could only be regarded as a supreme dramatist when he had written a play about death. The resultant work, a satire on the British medical profession in the early 20th century, remains widely regarded as a key work in Shaw's canon and in the fictional literature on medical ethics. The other two plays in the collection were first performed in 1908 and 1909 respectively and are here also published for the first time. Laurence A108. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Light wear to extremities, spine sunned, a few marks to cloth and endpapers, blue crayon to rear pastedown. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2475.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Shaw, George Bernard. THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Inscribed. London: Constable & Co., 1911. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." Sm. 8vo., 407pp., pale green cloth, gilt, t.e.g. A very good or better example of the first edition, first printing. Three plays in one volume, including a list of other works by Shaw at the end of the book. This copy inscribed on the half-title in black fountain pen: "To Robert Loraine / from Bernard Shaw. / 23rd Feb. 1911". Laurence A108. Loraine [1876-1935] was a man of action: actor-manager, soldier, aviator, Fabian & of course, a close friend to Shaw - perhaps best known as an actor he's seen most commonly on holiday with the Shaws & Harley Granville-Barker or at Fabian events. Loraine & Shaw shared political affiliations & a passion for theatre: it was Loraine who premiered as the lead in Man & Superman on Broadway, the production was massively successful & launched Shaw as a force to be reckoned with in the United States. A significant association copy. Custom TBCL embossed cloth slipcase in fine condition.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada