George Bernard Shaw
by Chesterton, Gilbert K
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Lane Co. , 1910. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. 249, (6) pages. Hardcover in red cloth. Binding is rubbed, has light smudging. Corners are bumped. Spine is sunned. Some fraying at headcap/foot. Prior owner's signature at the top of the front flyleaf. Text is toned, occasional foxing. The gutter between pages 126 and 127 is foxed.
Synopsis
"Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." -- G. K. C.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047223
- Title
- George Bernard Shaw
- Author
- Chesterton, Gilbert K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- John Lane Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- 1910; Gilbert K. Chesterton; Plays; George Bernard Shaw; Mystics; Heathen mystics; Christians;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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