Shaw, Bernard Rider, Dan (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 38pp. Frontispiece reproducing an unpublished drawing of George Bernard Shaw. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light wear and browning on the spine, with short creased tear and small chip on rear panel, else quite bright. The jacket states: "A lively account of Shaw's early days as a lecturer, and of the contents of his den at 29 Fitzroy Square, including his private diary and the greater part of the manuscript of 'Love Among the Artists' which fell into Mr. Rider's understanding hands. 'Are you,' wrote Mr. Shaw to Mr. Rider, 'a bookseller by day and a burglar by night?'." Noted collector Maxwell Steinhardt's copy, with his attractive pictorial bookplate on front pastedown designed by Rockwell Kent.…