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Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play
London: Constable and Company, 1914. Item #06615
Misalliance
A Fine Copy in the Original Dust Jacket
SHAW, George Bernard. Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny’s First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children. London: Constable and Company, 1914.
First edition. Octavo (7 x 4 7/8 inches; 178 x 124 mm.). cxxi, [1, blank], [1]–234, [2, advertisements] pp.
Publisher’s original light green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Original gray dust jacket printed in black, spine a touch faded.
A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Chemised in a red cloth folder, housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell case, spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
A major wartime collection by George Bernard Shaw, bringing together Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny’s First Play, accompanied by the substantial essay A Treatise on Parents and Children. These works exemplify Shaw’s mature dramatic voice - combining social satire, intellectual provocation, and theatrical innovation at a pivotal moment just before the First World War.
Copies in the original dust jacket are uncommon, and examples preserved in such fine condition are especially scarce.
Laurence 128a.
Price: $300.00