[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by George Bernard Shaw to his secretary Blanche Patch: IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS
Charles Agvent
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Thu Jan 3 10:16:07 EST 2013
One of MANY fine GEORGE BERNARD SHAW items (letters, manuscripts, signed
books, photographs, etc.) in our inventory which can be seen at
http://www.charlesagvent.com
SHAW, George Bernard. IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS. A HISTORY
LESSON. London: Constable and Co Ltd, (1939). First Edition. Laurence
A237a: issue in pictorial boards. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on
the half title page and dated by him 9 November 1939 to his secretary of
thirty years Blanche Patch. Bookplate of noted Shaw collector Harold C.
Ackert on the front pastedown. A superb Shaw association copy. Joints
frayed and splitting but covers still tight. Chipping to the darkened
spine heel and head with slight loss of lettering at top. Still Very
Good, lacking the dustwrapper. (#013105) $2,000.00
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