Holyrod Michael Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Binding is somewhat shaken but sound. Text and images unmarked. Glossy dust jacket in a mylar cover. 238pp.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. near fine. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 238 pages. Short 4to, black cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1979). Near fine.

Condition: Near Fine. FIRST EDITION HARDBACK Book condition is Near Fine. Dust Jacket is Very Good Plus. Not Price Clipped. Profusely Illustrated with B&W photographs. 7.75 x 10 Inches in size. 238 numbered pages. Stated First American Edition. First Printing.

Tall Hardcover, many illus. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. First American Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ Very Fine. NO notes. Owner name at front paste down, else NO other markings. Not price clipped ($18.95) ; Tall 8vo ; 238 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition. Clipped corner on the dust jacket flap. Light foxing (faint age spotting) on the fore edges. Inscription inside the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition. Dust jacket shelf wear. Clean inside.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of this book in a very good jacket. 238 bright pages including the index. Several colour plates and black and white illustrations. an excellent study of the many lives and careers of Bernard Shaw. Size: 10in x 7 1/2in. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1979. September 1979. Holt Rinehart & Winston. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0030435412. 238 pages. hardcover. JACKET ILLUSTRATIONS: Front: George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. Back: George Bemard Shaw by Einar Nerman, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Jacket design by Patrick Yapp. keywords: Europe Ireland Literature Biography World Literature. DESCRIPTION - BERNARD SHAW declared that he had over a dozen reputations, and in The Genius of Shaw Michael Holroyd and his team of distinguished writers have a look at them. This book, which is partly critical and partly biographical, examines the careers of a dozen different men - all of them Bernard Shaw. Shaw never doubted that he had genius and that one day he would force the world to recognize it. Although the world took longer than Shaw might have wished, today he is universally accepted as one of the most spectacular and interesting figures in modern literature. But Shaw's reputation has also suffered from the reaction that posthumously afflicts most public figures. Everyone knows who he was, but few know what he did, what he believed, and what causes he championed. Though his plays are popularly as his most lasting memorial, they reflect only one aspect of this complex and curious man. In whatever subjects Shaw involved himself - Fabianism or vegetarianism, the rights of women, the wrongs of Ireland, or the reform of the alphabet - he fought for it with an idiosyncratic brilliance that reveals his astute mind and humour. His criticism of art, music, and the theatre is still sharp and as perceptive as any that has been written since. In Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954), eight qualities needed by the ideal critic are listed. Shaw is the only critic who has them all. Bernard Shaw was a man of extraordinary vitality and lived until he was ninety-four. His range of acquaintances was enormous; he was one of the earliest members of the Fabian Society and worked closely Sidney and Beatrice Webb; he knew some of the most renowned actresses of the day such as Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Ellen Terry, and Janet Achurch; he saw Henry Irving perform on stage and heard Adelina Patti and Nellie Melba sing in some of their finest roles; as a dramatist he wrote fifty-two plays that set out his philosophy with dialectical power, and ingenuity. Michael Holroyd and thirteen other contributors, each expert in his own field, look at all these aspects of Shaw. They draw on hitherto unpublished material, quote extensively from Shaw's writings, and give a stimulating all-round view of the genius that was Bernard Shaw. The many illustrations in colour and black-and-white, some of them never before produced, help to present Shaw in his many guises. He emerges from this fascinating reappraisal not as a dead classic but as a man of infinite variety, sometimes infuriating, sometimes endearing, whose work is still very much alive. inventory #4736. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 238 pp., many illustrations. Michael Holroyd and a dozen other contributors, each experts in his own field, look at all aspects of George Bernard Shaw; partly critical and partly biographical.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 238 pages. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Illustrated:b/w & colour plates.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.