Bernard Shaw F E Loewenstein (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. blue boards with gilt titles spine, spine cover slightly faded, 128pp, pages clean and overall VG condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Stapled lavender printed wraps. Mild marginal fading, as usual, faint creasing to the covers, upper corner tips bumped affecting the text throughout, else very good and clean. Octavo (9 5/8" by 7 3/8"). 36 pages with Alphabetical Index of Plays. "Mr. Shaw's play-rehearsal-copies came first into the market in quantities (though very small ones), when he gave up his flat in Adelphi Terrace and sold those which had remained on his shelves together with other unwanted books to a bookseller."--Introduction. Dr. Loewenstein offers a bibliographical description of the known rehearsal copies in this booklet. Dr. Loewenstein, a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany, was instrumental in the inauguration of the Shaw Society. Loewenstein dedicated this publication to "Miss Blanche Patch", Shaw's long-time secretary.…

LACKS D/W, ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

wraps. First Edition. Printed wraps. Laurence B311. A twenty-page pamphlet limited to 500 copies printed for the author that includes three paragraphs by Shaw not previously published. Slight soiling to covers. Very Good to Near Fine.

[First edition]. Original printed lavender wrappers, a little soiled and faded at margins; back cover a little dog-eared with minor damage to top left corner. A fascinating census, surely a labour of love for the author. - Contains Shaw's preferatory note and his "Rhymed Prologue to Fanny's First Play". Shaw also revised the author's introduction.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good- price clipped dust jacket. Chips and tears to jacket.; 11.10 X 8.60 X 1 inches.

First Edition. Pp. 36; small cr. 4to; printed paper wrappers, lightly foxed, Melbourne bookseller's label on upper wrapper; some slight internal foxing;Reinhardt & Evans, London, 1950. First edition. Laurence, K120. B3488.

First edition. Octavo. 128 pages, largely devoted to the photographs.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper with the red faded on the spine.