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Fine Literature
1:00 PM PT - Oct 9th, 2008

 

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Ervine, Bernard Shaw His Life..w/ signed postcard

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Title: Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work and Friends
Author: Ervine, St. John
Description: xii, 628 pp. Illustrated with plates from photos, etc. 8vo. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition.With an autograph real photo postcard of G. B. Shaw, signed by Shaw sent to Theodore Spicer-Simson Jr. (in Paris), in 1926; plus a typed letter signed with inscribed note to Spicer-Simson from St. John Ervine, dated July 15, 1922, both laid in, inside original mailing envelope mounted on rear free endpaper. The book is inscribed and signed by the author St. John Ervine to Theodore Spicer-Simson, dated Sept. 22, 1956, on the front free endpaper. Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) award-winning artist known for his sculptures of many world and literary figures of the first half of the 20th century. His work, letters and other related material now resides in the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of Miami Library.
Heading: (Shaw, George Bernard)Place Published: London
Publisher: Constable & Co.
Date Published: [1956]

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Small chips and tears with creases to jacket edges, light rubbing, clear tape repairs to verso, ink note on rear panel, price clipped; leaning, a few stains to cloth; still good overall.

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