SHAW, George Bernard; Charles Mozley [Illustrator].
Man and Superman.
The Limited Editions Club Edition of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman; signed by illustrator Charles Mozley and finely bound by Sangorski & sutcliffe
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of the Nobel Prize-winning play wright's classic work. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece and title page vignette, with color illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Charles Mozley on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 815. In fine condition. Introduction by Lewis Casson. Illustrated by Charles Mozley.
George Bernard Shaw began writing Man and Superman in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and his theory of Creative Evolution. As Stanley Weintraub says in his new introduction, this is "the first great twentieth-century English play" and remains a classic exposé of the eternal struggle between the sexes. Man and Superman was the first drama to be broadcast on the BBC's Third Programme on October 1st, 1946. To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, the play was directed by Sir Peter Hall.
Man and Superman.
$600.00
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