hesketh pearson george bernard shaw (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Illustrated. Ilustrador. Reprint. Good in cloth 8vo xi+390pp (shelfwear and rubbing to cloth and tips). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. x, 390pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. Reprint. Fascinating biography of George Bernard Shaw, with collaboration of the subject himself.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. We have here, final, unconventional notes and observations on George Bernard Shaw by Hesketh Pearson, the author of the Lively and Intimate "G.B.S., A Full Length Portrait". This is the 1950 First Edition, published by Harper and Brothers. **************************************** From the dust-jacket blurb: "When Hesketh Pearson was writing his 'G. B. S., A Full Length Portrait', there was some fascinating material on Shaw - conversations, observations, confirmed and unconfirmed stories about the great man - which, for various reasons of his own, he did not see fit to use at that time. Now that Shaw is dead, however, Hesketh Pearson has come to use this material, along with his final observations of Shaw during his last years. These observations, by one who knew Shaw intimately, are completely original and shed new and unexpected light on several facets of one of the greatest and most eccentric personalities of our times. **************************************** "Here, in Shaw's own words, are statements about his own highly colorful love affairs. Here is Shaw on the subject of love, marital and extramarital. Here is Shaw on a hundred things, among them such diverse topics as : movies, communism and fascism, the art of biography, Shakespeare, women, publisher's contracts, theatre-going, clubs, evening dress, social work, public speaking, rehearsals, basic English, poverty, banking methods, death, his own wife, his own plays, and his own obituary. ****************************************** "And here are some hitherto unpublished statements by Shaw on such famous personalities as : Karl Marx, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, James Barrie, Arnold Bennett, Harley Granville-Barker, Gilbert Murray, Marie Tempest, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan, Stalin, Conan Doyle, the Webbs, and Frank Harris. This is a book for every Shaw enthusiast." ********************************************* TITLE : G. B. S. , A Postscript / AUTHOR : Hesketh Pearson (1887- 1964) DATE : (1950) / PLACE : New York / IMPRINT : Harper & Brothers / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP Out of Print / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover; contains a black-and-white photograph portrait of Shaw as frontispiece and three other black-and-white photo-plate illustrations; Contains the author's Preface and an index; ix + 137 pages; approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/4"; red cloth; spine has title lettered in gold; photo-pictorial dust-jacket ************************************* CONDITION BOOK : VERY GOOD - DUST-JACKET : VERY GOOD . This is a previously owned book which remains clean and solid, with the following noted :: EXTERIOR : Spine has compression and slight abrasion to head, compression and slight fraying to foot - else clean and bright; modest shelf-wear to bottom board edges a bump to to the rear bottom fore-edge corner has created a bit of wrinkling - else clean and presentable. text-block edges are clean. / BINDING : Solid - pages open widely and easily. / INTERIOR : Slight toning to end-papers, else clean; a book shop's label is affixed to the bottom corner of the front paste-down (Farrow's Bookshop in Waterville, Maine) ; Interior is clean and presentable with near-negligible signs of use ( a few tiny spots or smudges of no real import) / DUST-JACKET : Price still remains on front flap (at top) bottom corner of front flap is clipped- considerable wear around edges, including nicking, chipping , small tears, small loss and creasing - abrasion to flaps folds - modest surface rub - looks decent under protective mylar cover.

First edition. Publisher's buckram with gilt titles within red borders to the upper board, in dustwrapper. A superb fine clean, square and tight copy, the contents without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Limited to 1000 copies of which this copy is hand numbered 266 in blue ink. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.