 | SHAW, Bernard. & WINSTEN, Clare. Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners [Limited Edition] SHAW, Bernard. & WINSTEN, Clare. Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners. In Prose by Bernard Shaw and in Pictures by Clare Winsten. London: Constable, 1949. Royal quarto. pp. 54, [3]. Quarter vellum over pictorial cloth. Of this edition one thousand and twenty five copies only have been printed. A thousand are numbered 1-1000, and […] €275.00 |
 | SHAW, Bernard. Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue. London: Constable and Company, 1931. Foolscap octavo. Bound by Bickers of London in full crimson morocco, covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing in the centre a College oval badge. Spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second anf fourth, the remainder with a […] €225.00 |
 | SHAW, George Bernard Shaw. Deathbed photograph, Ayot St Lawrence, 1950. Original press photograph, gelatin silver print, c. 1950, showing Shaw lying in state in his bedroom at his home in Ayot St Lawrence, England, shortly after his death. The intimate interior includes mantelpiece photographs and a bedside lamp; notably, a portrait of Stalin is visible among the background images, as referenced in the original press […] €375.00 |
 | SHAW, George Bernard. George Bernard Shaw with former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Gene Tunney. 180 x 228mm. Typed on paper on verso; “Shaw and American friend London, England … ”. Dated on verso 7/28/50. In fine condition. In 2010 Tunney’s son; Jay R. Tunney wrote a book on his father’s friendship with Shaw ‘The Prizefighter and the Playwright’. It seemed a strange relationship, as Tunney was forty years younger […] €375.00 |
 | SHAW, George Bernard. Original autographed photographic card of George Bernard Shaw By C. Troughton Clark, Rotorua, New Zealand. Signed and dated “G Bernard Shaw, 11th Dec 1934”.On verso addressed to Miss Taylor, Sunnyridge, Marford Hill, Rossett, Denbighshire, with note in Shaw’s hand ‘Thanks for the snapshot. Here is a fearfully serious portrait in exchange’, initialled ‘GBS’. With postage stamp. 87 x 140mm. In fine condition. C […] €875.00 |
 | SHAW, George Bernard. Original Press Photograph of H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. Chicago Herald. Dated 20/08/1960. 145mm x 175mm. Partial loss to top left-hand corner of photo. In fine condition. Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells are among the best-known and most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Both were rebelliously critical of the social and political, familial and sexual conventions and structures of their time. They shared broadly similar interests, […] €275.00 |
 | SHAW, George Bernard. Prefaces: Sociological, Political, Religious, Autobiographical. London: Constable and Company, 1934. Royal octavo. First edition. pp. viii, 802. Bound by Leighton-Straker in black, green and brown morocco with gilt decorations and ‘S’ in gilt on both covers, flat spine titled and dated in gilt, doublures ruled in gilt, brown sprinkled endpapers; red and green endbands. Top edge gilt, remainder blue. Light […] €775.00 |
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