SHAW, George Bernard.. SIXTEEN SELF SKETCHES.. Constable & Company, London,, 1949.

Price: US$83.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 134. Original publisher's cloth binding in brick red with gilt lettering at spine. Autobiography. B/w and sepia photographs of Shaw, his family, and friends illustrate the text. Portrait frontispiece etching of Shaw. Signed presentation from the author's printer, William Maxwell (1873-19570 on the front endpaper. Slight wear and fading to covers, otherwise very good.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Shaw, George Bernard. Sixteen Self Sketches. Constable and Company, London, 1949.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait after M. Pikov. 1 vols. 8vo. "First Complete Copy / Printers' binding . " A UNIQUE copy, inscribed on the fly leaf by the printer, William Maxwell: "First Complete Copy / Printer's binding 10/12/48/ William Maxwell LL.D." Maxwell's copy is not lettered in gilt, and he has had bound in a newpaper article by Dudley Barker "Shaw's Letters to a Girl," from the Daily Herald May 17-22, 1951. Laurence A259 Red cloth, gilt spine (unlettered); rear hinge cracked Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait after M. Pikov. 1 vols. 8vo

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