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Bernard Shaw - Volume III: 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy
by Michael Holroyd
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0701133511
- ISBN 13
- 9780701133511
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$10.62A$8.50
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1991 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Third volume of Michael Holroyd's biography of Bernard Shaw. 544pp with index, illustrated with 30 pages of black and white photographs. Gilt lettering on purple title panel to spine, gilt signature motif to front board. Very light foxing to top edges and minor surface marking, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, will require extra postage for 1st class or overseas shipping..
Synopsis
Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and is half-Swedish and partly Irish. Recognised as one of the greatest biographers of our time, he is the author of acclaimed biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, and Shaw. He was awarded the CBE in 1989. Born in London, he now lives in London and Somerset and is married to author Margaret Drabble.
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009679
- Title
- Bernard Shaw - Volume III: 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy
- Author
- Michael Holroyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701133511
- ISBN 13
- 9780701133511
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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