Lot 148
Shaw, George Bernard
£300
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Prefaces. London: Constable, 1934. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy "To Miss Lucy Patch on her birthday 28th October 1934 from G. Bernard Shaw", red half morocco, top edges gilt
Footnote
Note: Lucy Patch was the sister of Blanche Patch, Shaw's secretary for over 30 years, who estimated she typed 10 million words of Shavian prose after transcribing them all from Shaw's shorthand.
