Presentation Copy, Inscribed to the Printer One Week Before Publication
Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks.
London: Constable & Co, [1934].
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy, Inscribed to the Printer One Week Before Publication. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Fine copy, with the bookplate of the printer, WILLIAM MAXWELL (see inscription, below). Fine in quarter green morocco clamshell box with black leather spine labels. Laurence A216.
Item #32903
Inscribed on the half-title: "to William Maxwell / from Bernard Shaw / 8th Feb, 1934." Laurence gives the publication date as Feb 15, 1934, fully a week after this inscription.