An Unsocial Socialist
New York: Boni & Liveright / Modern Library, pre-1925. Modern Library #15.1. Leatherette.
Dark Green Leatherette; green marble endpapers; Gold BL logo on front and gold title and author name on spine; No catalogue listings but a solicitation to write for other publications; Brodzky endpages with spine #2 (1919-25) With Joseph Simpson’s black & white frontis portrait of Shaw. 6.5 inches tall; 250 pages.
Modern Library #15.1. Early printing 1925 or before.
Ref: Toledano.
The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, even age-toning; preliminaries more darkened and front endpages with minor chips; Previous owner’s name on top of the front paste-down. Moderate shelf handling wear.
The novel first appeared in serial form in 1883. It was intended as the opening installment in an unrealized epic description of the fall of capitalism.
Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s through his death and to today.
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