Shaw-Wells-Keynes on Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record and A Discussion by G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernest Toller and others, With three caricatures and cover design by Low
by G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernest Toller
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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London, United Kingdom: The New Statesman and Nation, 1934. Stapled paperback pamphlet with sewn binding, then sewn into library hardcovers, 47 pages including the drawn cartoon caricatures of the participants;---very gently used ex-library copy of Library of Hart House, University of Toronto, with plain brown covers with gilt front cover title, title again and library code in faded but legible white lettering on spine, covers rubbed, moderate shelf wear to spine ends, corner tips and bottom edges, large bookplate "The Gift of XXX, 12.2.35" inside front cover with another old tiny three-line rectangular "---property of ---Hart House---" label with a far more recent repetition of this label in square format inside the back cover;--- the booklet in orange with bold black lettering with a carciture head of Stalin (with three of our protagonists sitting on his head) on both covers, some looseness of the stitching securing the booklet to the hardcovers (cut this stitching at five points and the booklet is free) but the booklet's original stitching is strong, the text block secure within the orange covers, the covers and all text pages are very clean and unmarked, free of library markings, except for numerous tiny rectangular pinprick perforations of "Hart House" to front cover and sixteen sheets (32 pages), in some cases over text which remains readable. See also our listing for the exceedingly scarce Fifteen Years of White Terror. . Hard Cover and Soft Cover. Very Good -. Illus. by David Low .
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- Seller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 043562
- Title
- Shaw-Wells-Keynes on Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record and A Discussion by G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernest Toller and others, With three caricatures and cover design by Low
- Author
- G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernest Toller
- Illustrator
- David Low
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Publisher
- The New Statesman and Nation
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- NONFICTION GENERAL HISTORY ENGLAND ENGLISH BRITISH UK UNITED KINGDOM HISTORICAL LOCAL SOCIAL SOCIALISM COMMUNISM LECTURE DEBATE RUSSIAN SOVIET UNION USSR
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Political Science; Rare Books;
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