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Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Bernard Shaw on Photography: Essays and Photographs This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 486p 420p 544p 131p hardbacks, four volumes in black cloth with photographic jackets, some light wear to jackets edges/surfaces, all bindings firm, pages very clean and neat in all volumes, very good complete set Language: English.

HardBack. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, 1st Impression, Chatto 1988. 3 Volumes in slipcase. Very Thick Royal 4to Very good clean tight sound square, appear unopened and unread, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered black cloth, featuring green, blue and purple label. All with very good clipped original portrait pictorial dustwrappers. Housed and protected tin very good original laminated dustwrapper. Very heavy set, will incur additional postage charge particularly and perhaps prohibitively outside Europe, please inquire.

First edition. IX, (1), 544, (1) pp. + 32 plates. Dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears and creases, else fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 3 volumes ; illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394525779 ((v. 1)); 9780394525778 ((v. 1)); 0394575539 ((v. 2)); 9780394575537 ((v. 2)); 0394575547 ((v. 3)); 9780394575544 ((v. 3)); 067941987X ; LC: PR5366; Dewey: 822/.912; B; NLC: PR5366; NLM: B S534ho ; OCLC: 213536853 ; black and grey, black and purple, black and tan cloth in photographic dustjackets ; "To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap." ; v. 1. 1856-1898, the search for love -- v. 2. 1898-1918, the pursuit of power -- v. 3. 1918-1950, the lure of fantasy ; "When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898. At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas. Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon." ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt and green title block lettering to the spine, illustrated end papers. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' x, 486 [pp] ISBN 0701133325. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Free from inscription. Fine condition book, in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish, unused new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Chatto & Windus. First edition. 1988. DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Flat-signed by author to title page - no other inscriptions or dedications. Pages browned o/w a sound copy in a slightly used wrapper.