Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III
by Holroyd, Michael
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394575547
- ISBN 13
- 9780394575544
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 544 pages. Hardcover. Volume III. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Blue textured cover boards, navy blue quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. In this, the final volume of Halroyd's mammoth Shaw biography, the story opens with G.B.S. campaigning in the general election of 1918 and gradually unveils him in his various roles as conjurer, fabulist, and seer. Record # 32456
Synopsis
Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and is half-Swedish and partly Irish. Recognised as one of the greatest biographers of our time, he is the author of acclaimed biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and Shaw. He was awarded the CBE in 1989. Born in London, he now lives in London and Somerset and is married to author Margaret Drabble.
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32456
- Title
- Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy 1918-1950 Volume III
- Author
- Holroyd, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394575547
- ISBN 13
- 9780394575544
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Biography, Playwright, 1st Edition, , .
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