Item #005167 The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw [w/ Shaw-related clippings c. 1930]. George Bernard Shaw.
The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw [w/ Shaw-related clippings c. 1930]

The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw [w/ Shaw-related clippings c. 1930]

New York: Brentano's, 1911. Hardcover. [6], xcii, 443, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with printed paper spine label. No dust jacket (as issued). Publisher's advertisement for the author's works on half title verso. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Ellen Lewenhaupt. March 1911." A few pencilled marginal marks in the Preface on Doctors. Tipped onto front fixed endpaper is a newspaper clipping of a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Frederick H. Evans. With: 9 newspaper clippings formerly housed in the book: an ad for the Theatre Guild's 1927 production of The Doctor's Dilemma starring Lynn Fontaine, Alfred Lunt, and Baliol Halloway, including a photo of Fontaine and Halloway from the play; an article from the New York Times, 1928, about Shaw's comments on the significance of Ibsen's portrayal of women; a 1931 review by J. Brooks Atkinson of the Theatre Guild's production of Shaw's Getting Married, featuring Dorothy Gish; and 6 photo portraits of Shaw at different ages. The former owner, Ellen Bayard (1869-1932), a member of the prominent Bayard family of Delaware and Pennsylvania, married Count Reinhold Abraham Lewenhaupt in 1891. He died later that year and she later married Carl Magnus Hagren. In Good+ Condition: spine is sunned; boards are faded along edges; paper spine label is split vertically in the center; ends of spine are about to fray; front hinge is weak; a few pages with shadows from former presence of clippings; a few pencilled marks; otherwise; clean and bright. Good +. Item #005167

Price: $18.00

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