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CANDIDA: A Mystery
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1927. Later edition. Very good plus.. Beautifully bound 1920s edition of Shaw's play that pits an idealist poet against a practical cleric for a woman's affections - in attractive Art Deco fine binding. The second of Shaw's "Plays Pleasant" trilogy, CANDIDA was first published in 1898. The play did not prove to be particularly popular in London, but found more fertile ground in New York in 1904, with Shaw himself remarking on the "Candidamania" that swept the city. The play saw a revival in 1924, which again captivated audiences, and was still running when this edition of the play was published.
The unsigned binding of this copy exhibits a strong and prescient design sensibility: the motif embodies the Art Deco style of the late '20s, but would also not look out of place on a 21st century fine binding. A lovely copy. 7'' x 4.5''. Contemporary full brick red goatskin with linear gilt tooling, five raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 78, [4] pages, paginated 73-152. Boards with a hint of bowing at outer edges, a touch of soil; mild rubbing to gilt. Edges of textblock with scattered foxing, occasional foxing to margins of leaves.
The unsigned binding of this copy exhibits a strong and prescient design sensibility: the motif embodies the Art Deco style of the late '20s, but would also not look out of place on a 21st century fine binding. A lovely copy. 7'' x 4.5''. Contemporary full brick red goatskin with linear gilt tooling, five raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 78, [4] pages, paginated 73-152. Boards with a hint of bowing at outer edges, a touch of soil; mild rubbing to gilt. Edges of textblock with scattered foxing, occasional foxing to margins of leaves.
Synopsis
From the book:A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong in comfortable, prosperous middle class life; wide-streeted, myriad-populated; well-served with ugly iron urinals, Radical clubs, tram lines, and a perpetual stream of yellow cars; enjoying in its main thoroughfares the luxury of grass-grown "front gardens," untrodden by the foot of man save as to the path from the gate to the hall door; but blighted by an intolerable monotony of miles and miles of graceless, characterless brick houses, black iron railings, stony pavements, slaty roofs, and respectably ill dressed or disreputably poorly dressed people, quite accustomed to the place, and mostly plodding about somebody else's work, which they would not do if they themselves could help it. The little energy and eagerness that crop up show themselves in cockney cupidity and business "push." Even the policemen and the chapels are not infrequent enough to break the monotony.The sun is shining cheerfully; there is no fog; and though the smoke effectually prevents anything, whether faces and hands or bricks and mortar, from looking fresh and clean, it is not hanging heavily enough to trouble a Londoner.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48110
- Title
- CANDIDA: A Mystery
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later edition
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- 20th century,Jazz Age,English & British,Gift Idea,Fine Binding,Gift Beaut Binding
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine Binding
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Edges
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- Leaves
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Goatskin
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