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SAINT JOAN
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- Condition
- Spine ends frayed, else fine in dust jacket with chips and stains at spine extremes and a few other chips, bookplate
- Seller
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Paris, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Co, 1924. Limited to 750 copies. Spine ends frayed, else fine in dust jacket with chips and stains at spine extremes and a few other chips, bookplate. Limited to 750 copies. Folio. vi, 183p. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts with 16 tipped-in plates of stage settings and sketches, 13 in color. Bound with tan linen spine with paper title label, the cover of color-printed paper-covered boards, Dust jacket with Ricketts' design in blue. A deluxe presentation beautifully printed on fine paper.
Synopsis
One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.
Reviews
On Oct 16 2010, ElectricEel said:
As usual, Shaw works very hard at shocking the reader/viewer. He claims that the first trial, at which Joan was convicted, was more than fair, while the postumous trial, at which she was rehabilitated, was a kangaroo court. But maybe he's right. He also makes it clear that we're all willing to defend Joan now that she's been dead a few hundred years, but that if she were to reappear, we modern liberals would be the first to join the lynch mob.
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Details
- Bookseller
- First Folio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20389
- Title
- SAINT JOAN
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine ends frayed, else fine in dust jacket with chips and stains at spine extremes and a few other chips, bookplate
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited to 750 copies
- Publisher
- Constable and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Bookseller catalogs
- ILLUSTRATED;
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- Folio
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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