[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by George Bernard Shaw to his secretary Blanche Patch: IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
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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