Description

First Collector's Edition published in advance for subscribers to the Easton Press collection of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Illustrated with drawings by George Him and colour portrait frontispiece of George Bernard Shaw by Richard Sparks. 8vo, publisher's full red leather, the spine lettered and decorated between raised bands in gilt, the covers with an overall graceful gilt scrollwork which, when viewed from the proper angle reveals the monogram GBS repeated and reflected in mirror-image symmetry. Moire endleaves, bound-in ribbon marker, and a.e.g. xxxiii, 215 pp. A fine copy inside and out.

Edizione: first collector's edition illustrated. includes the devil's disciple and caesar and cleopatra. "more than eighty years after their initial appearance, these two dramas remain superlative examples of shaw's timeless and universal appeal, and exhibit his disarming ability to radiate serious ideas out of sparkling dialog." - easton press<br> george bernard shaw was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1925, a ceremony at which the spokesman presented shaw’s prize with winged words, “for his work which was marked by both idealism and humanity.”