[Rarebooks] FS: G.B. Shaw SOCIALISM AND SUPERIOR BRAINS Inscribed to the editor of the Everyman's Library series

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SHAW, George Bernard:  SOCIALISM AND SUPERIOR BRAINS. A REPLY TO MR. MALLOCK
A. C. Fifield London 1910 Second Edition.  Fabian Socialists Series No. 
8.  Original cloth-backed boards, 59 pages.  Laurence A102b. 
Frontispiece photograph of Shaw taken by the subject.  The First Edition 
of 1909, Fabian Tract No. 146, consisted of only 24 pages in wraps and 
did not have the photograph.  This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the 
author "to Charles Sarolea/from G. Bernard Shaw./14th Dec. 1911" on the 
front endpaper, with Sarolea's signature on the title page. 
Additionally, laid in is a brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Shaw 
to Sarolea on his stationery dated 12th Dec. 1911: "Dear Sarolea Will 
you lunch with us at Adelphi Terrace on Thursday at 1:30? What became of 
you on your last visit? We invited you to lunch; but you didn't answer 
and didn't come. Yours ever G. Bernard Shaw."  Charles Sarolea 
(1870-1953) was Professor of French Literature at Edinburgh University, 
author of books on politics, literature, and social movements, and 
editor of the Everyman's Library series.  Some fading and rubbing to 
boards.  Housed in cloth chemise and slipcase.  About Very Good in Fine 
slipcase.   $1750.00
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