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The first edition of Holbrook Jackson's monograph on Bernard Shaw, inscribed by the author to his mother. The first edition.Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, ""To my dear mother, George, London Sept. 3. '07"".A monograph on the life and work of the distinguished Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist, George Bernard Shaw.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates. Collated, complete.Twenty pages of adverts to the rear, dated 1907.By the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light marks to the cloth. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, which is a little faded. Spots to the fore edge and endpapers. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good
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