[Rarebooks] FS: Henry Salt's KILLING FOR SPORT Inscribed with ALS by George Bernard Shaw

[Charles Agvent]

(SHAW, George Bernard) SALT, Henry S. (editor). KILLING FOR SPORT. 
Essays by Various Writers. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915. First 
Edition. A scarce book with a preface by Bernard Shaw published for the 
Humanitarian League, an organization founded by Henry Salt and dedicated 
to human and animal rights. This is a most unusual and important copy of 
this book INSCRIBED by Shaw on the half-title page to animal rights 
promoter and author Phyllis Clodd, wife of prominent banker Edward 
Clodd, on 22 March 1917. In addition there is much material pasted in, 
mostly newspaper and magazine articles by Shaw on the subject covering 
the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns, with a few tipped in within 
the text. Also loosely tipped in opposite the title page is a 
photographic portrait postcard of Shaw with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 
on the verso from Shaw to Clodd dated 20 March 1917: "You should read my 
third article, which goes into the whole subject. It is psychologically 
very curious. Did you ever read an essay of mine on Sport, or have you 
ever thought out that subject? My second article was technical, though 
it was partly meant to reassure people with relatives at the front. But 
in the third I dealt with your position; and I should really like to 
know what you feel about it. G.B.S." There are a few ink notes on the 
articles and the endpapers that are likely in Clodd's hand. Front hinge 
is cracking with the first two blanks detached; some glue stains and 
foxing to first and last pages, most of text clean. Gilt on the spine 
faded but still readable. Good.

The first paragraph from a review of the book in THE SOCIALIST REVIEW, 
May 1915: "It is a bold venture on the part of the Humanitarian League 
to issue this little volume at a time when the nation is still earnestly 
engaged in 'Killing for Business,' and there is evidence that the book 
has been held back by the war, since Bernard Shaw's preface is dated a 
year ago. But in England the Blood Sports continue, while the Blood 
Business goes on amain along two great lines drawn across Europe, and 
only the day before that on which these lines are penned the writer 
passed a field in which a posse of excited barbarians were watching the 
hounds draw the coverts in the hope of hunting a fox to death. Probably 
all these people had relatives at the front, engaged on what is perhaps 
the less degrading occupation of the two." (#019804)     $2,500

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