Cashel Byron's Profession
(London): The Modern Press, 1886.
Price: $2,250.00
Softcover. First edition, larger variant with the blank leaf bound in at the beginning. Large octavo, measuring 6" x 9¾" (see Laurence for discussion of variant binding sizes). [4], 164pp. Pale blue-green printed wrappers. Fragile wrappers modestly worn with a short split at the crown, wrappers and endleaves lightly foxed, a very good or better copy. George Bernard Shaw's first novel, preceded only by two Fabian Society tracts. Housed in a custom cloth four-fold chemise and quarter-morocco clamshell box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (light wear, near fine). Laurence A3a.
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