Postscript by Pearson Hesketh (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!!

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding Tight Pages Clean Dust Jacket Has Tears At Edges. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 192 pages, illustrated, index, foxing throughout, edgewear and foxing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Typical ex-lib markings, moderate usage. Text clean, spine tight. ix, 137 p. ports. 22 cm. Includes Portraits. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1951, Red cloth binding with gilt stamped title on spine cover, no DJ, binding tight and square , text clean and unmarked bottom edge not trimmed, light foxing on end papers, no names no stamps, frontis: Photograph GBS, also in photograph Mrs. GBS.

Condition: Good. 1951. No edition remarks. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Writing inside. (English drama, 20th century, History and criticism ).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literature, biography, george bernard shaw) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, stated. Frontispiece photograph of George Bernard Shaw. Cloth binding, 137 pp. Fraying top of spine, spine sunned. Ex-library with over-enthusiastic discard marks. Very good reading copy in good condition.

hardback, frontispiece, covers stained, dust jacket, sl. foxing edges 191 Pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 192pp. With 2 plates. This book is a postscript to the biography of Bernard Shaw, by H. Pearson, published in 1942, it continues the story from the point the biography left off. This book has the obituary which Shaw wrote himself.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Brown top pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and un-cut edges. The boards are in good condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. the jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit torn. tanning. gift inscription. small cut on front end page. light marks. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "NY: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition (stated). Small 8vo, 137 pp (including Index). Illustrated with 3 B&W photographs, including Frontis by Yousef Karsh (see image). Red cloth covers with gold titles are clean and straight with light wear on edges and spine ends and lightly bumped corners. Pages are clean, no names or markings, not Ex-Library. Pages are darkened from age. Front hinge is cracked on the title page. Unclipped DJ ($2.75) has light edgewear and small chips on spine ends, protected in archival mylar jacket. Book condition: Good plus and DJ condition: VG. "G.B.S. A Postscript continues the story from the point at which the biography left off after Shaw's death. It describes the intimate discussions and not infrequent but always friendly disagreements which took place while it was being written." Books are carefully packaged and shipped in a box.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ condition in alike dust-jacket, little edgewear ; This book is a full-length portrait of the life and work of George Bernard Shaw. It includes a postscript detailing Shaw's life and work after his death.; 8vo; 120 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 120pp. Red cloth boards with faded gilt spine titles. One black and white photographic plate. Gift inscription with a bumped and faded spine with rubbing, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 120pp. About near fine with offsetting from newspaper clippings laid in in a very good spine faded dust jacket with short tears and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 5.75" x 8.5" 137 pps. plus 3 b/w plates. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Page edges are toned. Orange cloth-covered boards with gold printing and small blind emboss on front cover show some wear and fading on the spine and one corner but are good overall. An addendum to a previous biography of George Bernard Shaw written by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Missing DJ, date and address in ink inside, spine corners slightly bumped. ; Small newspaper cutting about Shaw (refusing to dance at the age of 94) tipped into front cover. ; A postscript to Pearson's 1942 biography of Shaw, published after his death.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn, Chipped DJ. First Edition. 137pp. A postscript to Pearson's "G.B.S., A Full Length Portrait." Photos. Prev. owner's name and address written on inside covers. (loc 177/1).

Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very good++ in good+ dust jack. 2 black and white plates. (illustrator). Second impression. Very good++ in good+ dust jacket. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean and tight. Edges of dust jacket are very scuffed with many small nicks and tears. Large chunk missing from back of dust jacket.

Cloth DW frontis + 192pp .Clean & bright VG+.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 192 pages; Complete with a portrait frontispiece. Subjects: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. 1 Kg.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 137 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Signed by the author with dedication to Jeff on front free endpaper. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 192pp. This book is the postscript to Hesketh Pearson's biography of Shaw published in 1942. Bottom edge of text block is uncut. Moisture has distorted the fore-edge of the front and back board panels, with some corresponding colour leaching from the cloth to the jacket. Tanning to pages. Jacket is clipped and has sunning to spine, light chipping along edges and some damp discolouration from the boards.

1946 very good clean solid 390 page hardcover with rare good jacket with photo of g.b.s on front!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Nice copy in dustwrapper. Second printing, February 1951, a month after the first; from the library of the author's literary executor (himself a future Shaw biographer), Sir Michael Holroyd. 2pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. "The first part of this book deals with the difficulties I experienced while writing my Life of Bernard Shaw [published by Collins in 1942]. It describes my talks with him, my successful attempts to extort intimate confessions from him, our constant disagreements, his outbursts over some of my inferences, and his repudiations of many stories that have grown up around his personality . . . The second part describes Shaw's life from the date reached in my biography to the end of his career." Shaw died on 2 November 1950.