Search Results: Animal Rights from Charles Agvent

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Front hinge is cracking with the first two blanks detached; some glue stains and foxing to first and last pages, most of text clean. Gilt on the spine faded but still readable. Good. A scarce book with a preface by Bernard Shaw published for the Humanitarian League, an organization founded by Henry Salt and dedicated to human and animal rights. This is a most unusual and important copy of this book INSCRIBED by Shaw on the half-title page to animal rights promoter and author Phyllis Clodd, wife of prominent banker Edward Clodd, on 22 March 1917. In addition there is much material pasted in, mostly newspaper and magazine articles by Shaw on the subject covering the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns, with a few tipped in within the text. Also loosely tipped in opposite the title page is a photographic portrait postcard of Shaw with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on the verso from Shaw to Clodd dated 20 March 1917: "You should read my… Read More