George Bernard Shaw: His Plays by Mencken, Henry L - 1969

Edwin V. Glaser, 1969. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In blue jacket, 8vo, 107pp. Facsimile Edition copying the 1905 edition. (slight wrinkling to cloth at upper board).

Boston and London, J.W. Luce & co., 1905. First edition, original black cloth (hardcover), with spine and front cover label, 107 pp., small bookplate to front pastedown else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

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Boston: John W. Luce, 1905. First Edition. The second book of H.L. Mencken, an analysis (and appreciation) of the plays of George Bernard Shaw. With a lengthy introduction by Mencken.
PHYSCIAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 194 x 132 mm), black cloth, paper labels to front cover and spine (hard cover).CONDITION: Light scratch to front cover, moderate wear to the spine tips and corners with darkening to the spine label, fading to top stain. Internally: Early bookplate to the front paste down, with an additional bookplate (of Frank Harding) to the front end paper and Harding's name in ink, dated 1929. A few scattered pencil markings and light toning to page edges. About Very Good, lacking the very scarce dust jacket.

Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. First printing. 107 pp., 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Cloth over boards, with printed cover and spine labels. Light wear to extremities, and scattered faint marks to cloth; light soiling to cover label, otherwise intact and bright; darkening and edge-chipping to spine label, still quite legible. Internally very good, save for a tape repair to one page (see images). Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet, “For Carey McWilliams, with all good wishes . . . Los Angeles Oct 27 ’26”. Crusading author, journalist, editor, and activist Carey McWilliams (1905-1980), as a teenager read H. L. Mencken and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and organized his life according to the Jazz Age dictates as he understood them: “I was sixteen when I enrolled at the University of Denver. By that time I was very much interested in books and had scribbled notes for a kind of a novel about that part of the West. Of course I never wrote it. But I was interested in writing and books. And I read… Read More