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Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 104pp. small 8vo orig. buckram backed-boards, wear on one corner,
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Shaw, [George] Bernard. The Sanity of Art. Benj. R. Tucker, New York, 1908.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10186 shelf. Brick red-stamped soiled taupe cloth, unlettered darkened spine. Odor from a smoker's home. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. With many ads at back for books about anarchism. Solid. 113 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.98 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small 8vo. Publisher's printed boards, white buckram spine, gilt lettered though this rather faded, ink ownership to front endpaper, some very light pencil annotations, but overall a very bright example. Bernard Shaw's response to Dr. Max Nordau. 104, [2 ads]pp.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Lawrence A86a. Secondary binding of printed brown wrappers with four colons on the front cover. Near Fine in a wax paper dustwrapper with the title, author, and date printed on the backstrip, likely not original to the book
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Shaw, [George] Bernard. The Sanity of Art [1st American Edition]. Benj. R. Tucker, New York, 1908.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth, lettered in brown, top text block edge in gilt. Mild shelf wear with a few soilmarks to cloth front and rear, modestly rubbed spine extremities. Illus. book plate of former owner Edmund Stirling mounted on front pastedown. 113 pp., publisher's catalog at rear. Clean interior, firm binding. Decently preserved. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: [Essays and Criticism] VINTAGE, EARLY EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 104 [2]. Cream quarter cloth, brown typographic paper over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Some light toning and spotting to preliminaries, rubbing to spine gilt and toning to cloth. Very good. 'The Sanity of Art' was written in response to Max Nordau's 'Degeneration' (published 1982) which criticised the fin de siècle modernist trends. However, Shaw advocates for these artists and for the individual to decide for themselves how to view the new aesthetic.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing [cloth issue]. Publisher's paper covered boards with titles in black to the upper board and in gilt to the white cloth spine. An excellent near fine clean, square and tight copy. The contents are entirely complete, without inscriptions or stamps and with a few foxing spots to the text block edge. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, pp. 104. A VG copy bound in cloth-backed boards. Laurence A86a.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Publisher's wrappers; a fine copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. The Sanity of Art. The New Age Press, London, 1908.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 1 vols. 12mo. First State Binding. Laurence A 86 In first state of the binding: brown paper wrappers with three colons on upper cover. Laid in half morocco slipcase and chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. The Sanity of Art. Benj. R. Tucker, New York, 1908.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, American issue. 114 pages. 12mo. With the text of the last version before Shaw's final revisions. Concerining this Shaw wrote to the Ammerican publisher, Benjamin Tucker, "I suppose you will have to print your edition in the earlier and imperfect phase of the immortal work." Written at the invitation of Tucker, the editor of Liberty magazine. It first appeared in the July 27, 1895 issue of Liberty in the form of an essay-review titled "A Degenerate's View of Nordau" (Laurence C1086). Tucker observed that there had been no response from the arts community to Nordau's Degeneration, and offered Shaw the highest price ever paid to anyone for a magazine article if he would offer that response. Shaw, always a critic of the American devotion to money, accepted. Laurence A86b Tan cloth. Spine slightly tanned, covers very slightly foxed, else a near fine, bright copy
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First editions. 3 variant copies. 1 vols. 12mo. Three States of Binding. Laurence A86 In three variant states of the binding: (1) brown paper wrappers with three colons on upper cover; (2) simultaneous binding of quarter white cloth and grey boards; (3) secondary binding of brown paper wrappers with 4 colons on upper cover. In slipcase
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.