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Thirty Years with G. B. S.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1951.

8vo, with a frontispiece (slightly soiled at head); original orange cloth; upper cover soiled, spine slightly rubbed and faded; with a photograph of Shaw, signed and annotated by Patch, loosely inserted; from the library of Michael Holroyd, with his bookplate and his extensive ink annotations and highlighting throughout.

£250

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First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title ‘To Gladys & Hesketh Pearson with best wishes for 1951. From Blanche Patch. 10th January, 1951’. An American edition appeared the same year.

Laurence B356.

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