G.B.S.: a postscript - the author's own copy

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Dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly nicked. The author's own copy of the first US edition (copyright dated 1950, but book first published by Collins, 1951), with his ownership inscription, 11 July 1951, and autograph correction on pp. 3, 26, 28, 62, 107, 109, 112 and 133; later in the library of the author's literary executor, a future Shaw biographer, Sir Michael Holroyd. "The first ten chapters of this book deal mainly with the difficulties I experienced while writing my Life of Bernard Shaw. They describe my talks with him, my successful attempts to extort intimate confessions from him, our constant disagreements, his outbursts over some of my inferences, and his repudiations of many stories that have grown up around his personality . . . The remaining chapters . . . consist of three pieces on Shaw the man, the playwright, and the reformer; a brief introduction to the first of his writings that appeared in print; and an obituary notice which I wrote for a leading London newspaper." Shaw died on 2 November 1950.

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Título

G.B.S.: a postscript - the author's own copy

Editor

New York: Harper & Brothers

Fecha de publicación

1951

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Dust Jacket Included

Firmado

Inscribed by Author(s)