An Unsocial Socialist
by Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
- Used
- Condition
- A Good Collectible Copy.
- Seller
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Dark Green Leatherette; green marble endpapers; Gold BL logo on front and gold title and author name on spine; No catalogue listings but a solicitation to write for other publications; Brodzky endpages with spine #2 (1919-25) With Joseph Simpson's black & white frontis portrait of Shaw. 6.5 inches tall; 250 pages.
Modern Library #15.1. Early printing 1925 or before.
Ref: Toledano.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even age-toning; preliminaries more darkened and front endpages with minor chips; Previous owner's name on top of the front paste-down. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The novel first appeared in serial form in 1883. It was intended as the opening installment in an unrealized epic description of the fall of capitalism.
Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s through his death and to today.
Synopsis
In the dusk of an October evening, a sensible looking woman of forty came out through an oaken door to a broad landing on the first floor of an old English country-house. A braid of her hair had fallen forward as if she had been stooping over book or pen; and she stood for a moment to smooth it, and to gaze contemplatively - not in the least sentimentally - through the tall, narrow window. The sun was setting, but its glories were at the other side of the house; for this window looked eastward, where the landscape of sheepwalks and pasture land was sobering at the approach of darkness.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16576
- Title
- An Unsocial Socialist
- Author
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
- Format/Binding
- Leatherette
- Book Condition
- Used - A Good Collectible Copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Modern Library #15.1
- Publisher
- Boni & Liveright / Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...