The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
by Shaw, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1913. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the Third Impression (stated) of the First Edition. Olive green cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; xciv, 407 pages, with four pages of adverts in the rear for other Shavian works. Includes the Prefaces, which some consider almost more important than the works themselves. Armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. Spine rubbed at the margins and slightly darkened (although gilt lettering remains fine). No dustwrapper. A solid copy, but a crease along the lower front cover demands a lower rating.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004621
- Title
- The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Constable and Company Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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