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George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw

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Auction Date:2013 May 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: Saint Joan. First edition, limited issue of 750. London: Constable & Co., 1924. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.25 x 15.75, 183 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in black ink, “Inscribed for Captain Roy Limbert, at the first Malvern Festival in August 1929 in his theatre, G. Bernard Shaw.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/G. Tan cloth-covered spine and blue and white illustrated paper-covered boards; edges worn, with small tears at spine-ends and chips along large portion of lower edges; waterstain along spine/rear hinge (not effecting interior); yellowing to edges and few areas of endpapers; minor soiling. Dust jacket has large chips/tears and creases along edges and folds; one large chip from center of spine; discolored and soiled; waterstains and some wrinkling, mostly to rear panel; horizontal crease across entire jacket; four pieces of non-archival tape to backside. The Malvern Festival was conceived as a week-long ‘immersion drama’ to take place at the Malvern Theatre, which was leased by Limbert; the inaugural festival featured the British premiere of Shaw’s The Apple Cart.