Too True to Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. Three Plays by Bernard Shaw
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934.
Price: $65.00
Hardcover. First American edition. A rather large bookplate on the front pastedown, a tiny owner name ("Catherine Marsh") on the front fly, and very faint spotting to the boards, else near fine in an attractive, age-toned, very good Arthur-Hawkins-designed dustwrapper with a very faint dampstain in the vicinity of the foot.
Item #75552
George Bernard Shaw
birth name: George Bernard Shaw
born: 7/26/1856
died: 11/2/1950
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature According the biographer A.M. Gibbs, (per Wikipedia) Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honors. However, he accepted the prize at his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting instead that it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English.more