[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon WWI G. Bernard Shaw item not noted in bibliographies
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Thu Nov 17 12:58:29 EST 2005
One of over 100 fine Shaw items listed on our website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
SHAW, George Bernard. COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR in The New York
Times Current History of the European War. Volume I, Number I. New
York: The New York Times Company December 1914. First Edition.
Printed wraps; 208 pages. Laurence A130a for the English Edition
issued in November 1914 as a supplement to THE NEW STATESMAN. This
American Edition is not noted by Laurence and in addition to Shaw's
piece, which is given head billing, it includes articles by Arnold
Bennett, John Galsworthy, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, G. K.
Chesterton, A. Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, and others. All of the
above, as well as a few others, have portraits within as well. Not in
Lomazow's guide to first issues of magazines. Near Fine $250.00
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