Published by Random House, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394575539 ISBN 13: 9780394575537
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Published by Random House, 1989, 1989
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine/Sl Chipped, Sl Soiled Dj. 1st American. Name & address label on fly.
Published by New York: Random House, nd, 1988
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First US printings, (1988-89). Two volumes, 8vo, pp. 486; 421. Photo illustrated. Cloth backed boards, dust jackets, fine.
Published by Random House, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394575539 ISBN 13: 9780394575537
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Vol II of this three-volume comprehensive biography of "the most controversial figure of his age" in late-Victorian England, the "playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, & irresistible charmer'' George Bernard Shaw. This volume explores Shaw at this prime, when he had become the most popular writer in England. In 421 pages + 32 pages of black-and-white photos. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1989, this hardcover is in Fine condition in an equally Fine, unclipped DJ: just a tad less crisp than Brand New! Completely clean, binding tight & square, hinges secure, pages white. The unclipped DJ is equally flawless. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Published by Chatto & Windus, GB, 1989
ISBN 10: 0701133325 ISBN 13: 9780701133320
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Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Black cloth, gold lettering on blue background to spine. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.
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Published by London : Chatto & Windus, 1989
ISBN 10: 0701133503 ISBN 13: 9780701133504
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 422 pages, 32 pages of plates ; 24 cm. Subjects; Shaw, Bernard 1856-1950; biography. Dramatists, English 20th century ; Biography. Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950; Biography and criticism. 1 Kg.
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Published by Random House, U.S.A., 1988
ISBN 10: 0394525779 ISBN 13: 9780394525778
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a two book biographical set, both First American Editions. Volume 1 is subtitled The search for Love. The book is Near Fine and is tight and square, clean text-block. Only light shelfwaer keeps it from being a Fine edition. The dust jacket is Near Fine+ with sharp edges,a crisp unfaded cover and a protective cover. Volume 2 The Pursuit of Power, is in identical condition both book and dust jacket in Near Fine+ condition. Niether book is price clipped and there are no interior markings or inscritions. These books are hard to find in a set, especially in this condition.
Published by A mixed set: Vol 1 by Random House, New York, 1988. Vols 2 & 3 by Chatto & Windus, London 1989 &1991. All uniform in appearance, 1991
3 vols, large octavo, 486+420+544 pages, illustrated, original boards in dustwrappers, a very nice set. The complete biographical section of this acclaimed work.
Published by Random House, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394575539 ISBN 13: 9780394575537
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.8 inches.
Published by Random House, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394575539 ISBN 13: 9780394575537
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.4 X 6.2 X 1.8 inches.
Published by New York: Random House. 09.09.1989., 1989
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
Condition: Gut. VIII, 486 / IX, 421 S. / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly three-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. The Mephistophelean Irishman brought to the creation of "G.B.S." the same vitality and delight that he devoted to his plays and to his innumerable causes, from the rights of women to the promotion of "hygienic" dress. -- With sympathetic insight Michael Holroyd takes us back to "Sonny," the child who was reluctant father to this Superman. Shaw's career was greatly influenced by his upbringing in Ireland. His early days in Dublin had been "rich only in dreams, frightful and loveless in realities." The last of a long line of increasingly impoverished Anglo-Irish gentry, he grew up in a curiously unsettling ménage-à-trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, was a redundant civil servant who had turned to drink; his mother became the right-hand woman for a Svengali-like teacher, George Vandeleur Lee. Fearing that he might have been illegitimate, Shaw later dropped the name George as the symbol of his uncertainty and set out to find a new and invulnerable identity. -- In The Search for Love, Michael Holroyd takes Shaw from his birth in 1856, through a series of poignant and tantalizing love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. Following his mother to London, he attempted to set himself up as a professional man of genius. He tried his hand at novels; elected himself a leading member of the Fabian Society; established a reputation, with his championship of Wagner, as a brilliant music critic; and composed his famous "pleasant" and "unpleasant" plays. In a crowded social life he collaborated with Sidney and Beatrice Webb, played amorous piano duets with Annie Besant, spent his evenings with May Morris and Eleanor Marx, and contributed to the newspapers of Frank Harris. Two strands in his character, love and power, competed over his affection for Ellen Terry and his struggle with Henry Irving. -- Michael Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with humor, compassion and originality. Listening to the subtle mind behind Shaw's laughter and divesting G.B.S. of his pantomime clothing, he reveals the man who orphaned himself from his parents to become the child of his own writings. In The Search for Love subject and author are perfectly matched. The result promises to be one of the great literary biographies of our times. -- Michael Holroyd began his magnificent biography of Shaw with The Search for Love, published in 1988. The second volume, The Pursuit of Power, is the story of Shaw in his prime. He has put behind him the disappointments of his Irish childhood, as well as the years of his anonymity in London, and started on the terrible adventure of marriage. Bv 1914 the author of Pygmalion has become the most popular writer in England. -- An author's business, Shaw believed, is to mind everyone else's business, and that is what he did, so in a unique way his life is a history of the times. This is the period of his great middle plays: Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara and The Doctor's Dilemma. He has opinions on medicai ethics, disarmament, unemp.
Published by Random House, 1989
ISBN 10: 0394575539 ISBN 13: 9780394575537
Seller: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First USA edition-2nd printing. VGC.Random House,1989.First USA edition-2nd printing (2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3).Red hardback(gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, two small nicks and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(some creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover, small foxing marks on the outer and inner edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.Nice and clean pages but with some ink marks and small foxing marks on the outer edges.The book is in VGC with some shelf wear on the Dj cover.427pp including List of illustrations,index.Price un-clipped.Heavy book (approx 1 Kg).
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1989
ISBN 10: 0701133503 ISBN 13: 9780701133504
Seller: Welcombe Books, Dorset, DORSE, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine first printing in a likewise UNCLIPPED dust wrapper. SIGNED and DATED 6 November 1990 by this distinguished Historian to the title page. BOXED DESPATCH: OVERSEAS AIR ONLY: PLEASE DO NOT SELECT SURFACE!. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Random House, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0394525779 ISBN 13: 9780394525778
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. All four volumes Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jackets. Light damp staining at top of Vol. 1 rear panel. ; 9.4 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches.