Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FIRST BOOK SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Cashel Byron's Profession. Large 8vo, original wrappers, minor scattered discoloration, small chip to backstrip foot into corner of front wrapper; minor foxing to endpapers; cloth chemise and morocco pull-off case. (London): The Modern Press, 1886

Additional Details

first edition of shaw's first book, preceded only by two Fabian Society pieces, A Manifesto, in 1884, and To Provident Landlords and Capitalists, in 1885. Very scarce in this condition, with the fragile wrappers and spine intact. Laurence A3a.