Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, later printing of Androcles and the Lion, Overruled and Epilogue by Bernard Shaw with a dust jacket protected in an archival wrap. First US Edition unstated, 1923 Brentano’s with three individual copyrights. First printing, with 1923 on the title page and no subsequent printing.
The book is in Good condition with clean, lightly faded boards with some sheen on both. Also with, clean and lightly faded title paper label on a straight spine, clean, toned page blocks, binding starting to pull away at the top, mild spine tilt, rolled and rubbed spine ends, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The interior pages are clean and evenly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket.
This volume contains three of Shaw’s plays including: Androcles and the Lion in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era; Pygmalion (made famous under the name My Fair Lady), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw’s greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw’s comedies their special flavor; and Overruled.
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