[Rarebooks] FS: G. B. Shaw: FABIANISM & THE EMPIRE, 1900, one of 189 copies

[Charles Agvent]

SHAW, George Bernard. FABIANISM AND THE EMPIRE: A MANIFSETO BY THE
FABIAN  SOCIETY.  London: Grant Richards 1900. First  Edition.  Though
listed  as  editor on the title page, Shaw actually wrote  the  entire
text.  Laurence  A41. Four thousand copies were printed and  bound  in
wrappers.  "In February 1908 the Fabian Society authorised the bind-up
of  189  copies, stripped of their soiled wrappers, in  quarter  green
buckram,  brown  paper boards, lettered in black; top gilt."  This  is
one of those 189 copies. Fine                                  $250.00

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