Pearson, Hesketh

BERNARD SHAW, His Life and Personality

Collins: London, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #21-7041

Photos, 9 x 6", red cloth, 424pp with Index, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying, indent on spine near top, pp toned, textblock seperating at frontis/title page; a rather well used and worn copy. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "Dear William Maxwell / You know me well enough to have your own opinion of me. Here is Hesketh Pearson's" AND SIGNED BY THE SUBJECT, "G. Bernard Shaw" WHO ADDS "Ayot St Lawrence 25th Nov. 1942". There is a pencil note on the ffep stating that Maxwell was Shaw's book designer.

Price: $1,250.00