Sherard (Robert Harborough) Bernard Shaw – Frank Harris & Oscar Wilde
£125
London, Werner Laurie, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 18/-.
An interesting disputation of the book Oscar Wilde: his life and confessions (1916) penned by Frank Harris and championed by GBS, which Sherard goes to considerable length to assert was in fact chiefly a work of fiction.
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Cloth slightly sunned at extremities; jacket dulled with some rubbing and minor chipping, but overall very good.
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