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An Unsocial Socialist (Modern Library No. 15)
by SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very near fine. A touch of rubbing to gilt on upper cover; gilt titling remains quite bright. Lacking rare dust jacket.
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917. Second Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Very near fine. A touch of rubbing to gilt on upper cover; gilt titling remains quite bright. Lacking rare dust jacket.. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. [vi], 250 pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 1 in chocolate brown 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt to upper cover, gilt title to spine; brown marbleized endpapers. Stated Second Printing, Sept. 1917, with publisher's catalogue of 35 titles (C3) preceding title page. Frontis. of Shaw by Joseph Simpson. A fresh, crisp copy of an early Modern Library edition. Toledano 15.1.
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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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 773
- Title
- An Unsocial Socialist (Modern Library No. 15)
- Author
- SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine. A touch of rubbing to gilt on upper cover; gilt titling remains quite bright. Lacking rare dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Modern Library Printing
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
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Asheville, North Carolina
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Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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