Gbs Postscript by Pearson Hesketh (32 results)
Language: English
- Hardcover
Seller: WeSavings LLC, MONTGOMERY, TX, U.S.A.WeSavings LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!.

Published by Harper 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.Dunaway Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.
Published by Collins 1951
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding Tight Pages Clean Dust Jacket Has Tears At Edges. Book.

Published by Collins, St James Place, London 1951
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1951, Red cloth binding with gilt stamped title on spine cover, no DJ, binding tight and square , text clean and unmarked bottom edge not trimmed, light foxing on end papers, no names no stamps, frontis: Photograph GBS, also in photograph Mrs. GBS.
Published by Harper & Brothers
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Published by Collins 1951
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Condition: Good. 1951. No edition remarks. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear wit…h some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled.
Published by Collins 1951
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Collins
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literature, biography, george bernard shaw) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or ac…cess codes may not be included.
Language: English
Published by Collins, London 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Philip Emery, Bridlington, United KingdomPhilip Emery
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 192 pages, illustrated, index, foxing throughout, edgewear and foxing to dust jacket.
Published by Collins
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Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, , United KingdomGage Postal Books
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hardback, frontispiece, covers stained, dust jacket, sl. foxing edges 191 Pages.
More imagesPublished by Harper & Brothers
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Needham Book Finders, Santa Clarita, CA, U.S.A.Needham Book Finders
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "NY: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition (stated). Small 8vo, 137 pp (including Index). Illustrated with 3 B&W photographs, including Frontis by Yousef Karsh (see image). Red cloth covers with gold titles are clean and straight with l…ight wear on edges and spine ends and lightly bumped corners. Pages are clean, no names or markings, not Ex-Library. Pages are darkened from age. Front hinge is cracked on the title page. Unclipped DJ ($2.75) has light edgewear and small chips on spine ends, protected in archival mylar jacket. Book condition: Good plus and DJ condition: VG. "G.B.S. A Postscript continues the story from the point at which the biography left off after Shaw's death. It describes the intimate discussions and not infrequent but always friendly disagreements which took place while it was being written." Books are carefully packaged and shipped in a box.".

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 137pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Light pencil underlining and few pencil notes to text, very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, and a few short tears. Contains the first book appearance of… G. B. Shaw's "New Stanza for National Anthem" and "Shaw Dictates His Obituary".
More imagesPublished by Harper & Brothers, New York 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 120pp. Red cloth boards with faded gilt spine titles. One black and white photographic plate. Gift inscription with a bumped and faded spine with rubbing, very good.

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 120pp. About near fine with offsetting from newspaper clippings laid in in a very good spine faded dust jacket with short tears and edgewear.
Language: English
Published by Collins, London 1951
- Hardcover
Seller: The Raven and the Writing Desk, Ruawai, NORTH, New ZealandThe Raven and the Writing Desk
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Age Spots, Browned. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn and Torn. Inscription and book exchange stamp on first page. The book cover is damaged but the book is in reasonable condition for its age, with page browning and some age spotting. A postscript to the biography of George Bernard Shaw by Hesketh Pearson…, published in 1942. Obituary by Shaw himself.
Published by Harper & Brothers, N.Y. 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.Austin Book Shop LLC
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Worn, Chipped DJ. First Edition. 137pp. A postscript to Pearson's "G.B.S., A Full Length Portrait." Photos. Prev. owner's name and address written on inside covers. (loc 177/1).

Published by Harper & Brothers 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 137 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Signed by the author with dedication to Jeff on front free endpaper. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounc…ed to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Published by COLLINS 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Brown top pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and un-cut edges. The boards are in good condition. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately cle…an and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Published by Collins 1951
- Hardcover
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South AfricaChapter 1
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. the jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit torn. tanning. gift inscription. small cut on front end page. light marks. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by London:Collins Publishers. 1951. Hardcover. 1951
- First Edition
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.Frederick Bayoff Literary Books
Contact seller4-star sellerShaw, G.B. 1st. ed. 2nd impression. v.g.-fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
More imagesPublished by London: Collins 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, , United KingdomJames Fergusson Books & Manuscripts
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Nice copy in dustwrapper. Second printing, February 1951, a month after the first; from the library of the author's literary executor (himself a future Shaw biographer), Sir Michael Holroyd. 2pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. "The first part of this book… deals with the difficulties I experienced while writing my Life of Bernard Shaw [published by Collins in 1942]. It describes my talks with him, my successful attempts to extort intimate confessions from him, our constant disagreements, his outbursts over some of my inferences, and his repudiations of many stories that have grown up around his personality . . . The second part describes Shaw's life from the date reached in my biography to the end of his career." Shaw died on 2 November 1950.
Published by Collins, London 1951
- Softcover
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, , United KingdomSt Marys Books And Prints
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Softback. Bound in brown cloth with small closed tear to the top of the spine faded gilt titles 192pp Pencil inscription to the front free endpaper otherwise a nice copy. book.

Language: English
Published by Collins, London U.K. 1951
- Hardcover
Seller: Taipan Books, Inglewood, WA, AustraliaTaipan Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 192pp. This book is the postscript to Hesketh Pearson's biography of Shaw published in 1942. Bottom edge of text block is uncut. Moisture has distorted the fore-edge of the front and back board panels, with some corresponding colour leaching from the cloth to the jacket. T…anning to pages. Jacket is clipped and has sunning to spine, light chipping along edges and some damp discolouration from the boards.
Published by Collins, London, UK 1951
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good condition./No Dustjacket. London, UK: Collins. Good condition./No Dustjacket. 1951. 8vo., 192 pp. . Black & White Plates (illustrator).
- Hardcover
Seller: oldprintbooks, webster, NY, U.S.A.oldprintbooks
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Published by Collins, London England 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, , United KingdomThe London Bookworm
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Couple of repairs to tears to D/J. Price clipped to D/J. This book is a Postcript to the biography of Bernard Shaw, by Hesketh Pearson, published in 1942. It continues the story from the point at which the biography left off, and describes the int…imate discussions and not infrequent but always friendly disagreements which took place while it was being written. Not the least illuminating feature of this book is the obituary which Shaw himself contributed. 192 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. etc.).
More imagesPublished by New York: Harper & Brothers 1952
- Hardcover
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, , United KingdomJames Fergusson Books & Manuscripts
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dustwrapper faded at spine and slightly torn. First edition combining G.B.S.: a full-length portrait, the US edition of Bernard Shaw: his life and personality (1942), and the US edition of G.B.S.: a postscript (Collins, 1951) - the latter in this volume separately paginated.… From the library of the author's literary executor, himself a future biographer of Shaw, Sir Michael Holroyd.
Published by Collins 1951
- Hardcover
Seller: EYES WIDE OPEN, London, United KingdomEYES WIDE OPEN
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Cloth DW frontis + 192pp .Clean & bright VG+.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Pickwick Bookshop, Nyack, NY, U.S.A.Pickwick Bookshop
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Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Original Price Remains. Book in Fine Condition; DJ in Good+ Condition. Bound in red cloth, titles in gilt on spine; Publisher's inisignia blind stamped on front board. Very light sh…elf wearon bottom edges and corners.

Published by London : Collins 1951
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Signed by the author. Provenance: Bookplate of Horace V. Shooter. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 190 pages : portraits ; 22cm. Notes: I…ncludes index. Subjects: Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) -- Biography. Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography. 3 Kg.