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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Advance Uncorrected Proof - Trade Paperback - FINE in Wraps - The best of Rolling Stone magazines articles on Beat culture - contributors include, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, Johnny Depp.and a William S. Burroughs interview with David Bowie!!!!

HC. 97pp good++, green cloth spine (hardcover) light fade spine, wear bds.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is quarter bound in black cloth with bright gilt titling to patterned green paper covered boards. There is a small book plate to the f.e.p. The text block is bright, white, tight and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some minimal edge wear to the top edge only. When Bernard Shaw abandoned Ireland in 1876 to join his mother and sister in London, he stepped unknowingly into the geographical center of a religious-intellectual turbulence almost without precedent. Moving for thirty years in the midst of the melee of Secularists, Humanitarians, Ethicalists, New Lifers, Zeteticists, Spiritualists, Comtist Positivists, and Theosophists, to mention a few, he steadfastly maintained his atheism and refused to align himself with any one group. Then in 1906, in a speech, "The Religion of the British Empire," given at London's City Temple, he emerged with what could properly be called a religion, and a fairly systematized one at that. This speech is one of eleven on religion given by Shaw in the years from 1906 to 1937 and brought together for the first time in this book. Gathered from old newspapers, magazines, and, in one case, a phonograph record, they present more effectively than any study of his religious thought yet published Shaw's ideas on the nature of the evolving God and the function of religion in modern life.