Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion

by Bernard Shaw, G.

$525 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

London: Grant Richards, 1901. Sm. 8vo, xxxviii, 308. With 3 photogravure plates. Original olive cloth, backstrip browned. A good copy with a fine association. § First edition, inscribed by Shaw's wife: Louise S. Broadwood from Charlotte F. Shaw. Jan. 1901. Later rubberstamp ex libris Gilbert Bagnani . The strain of writing these plays, while his critical and political work went on unabated, so sapped Shaw’s strength that a minor illness became a major

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