Leilão Bidspirit | SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish

SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good b... - SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism , First Edition (advance copy) published by Constable and Company Ltd., London, 1928. Signed by Shaw in dark fountain pen ink to the half-title page, 'To Ethel Snowden from Bernard Shaw' . Bound in the original publisher's decorative olive green cloth and with decoration and gilt title to spine. With Ethel Snowden's bookplate laid down to the front pastedown and also including a loosely inserted vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Philip Snowden (neatly trimmed to the lower border). Further including a loosely inserted printed small 8vo slip, the text stating 'Please consider this book private until the 1 st of June, the day of publication. G.B.S.' . Lacking the dust jacket. An interesting association copy. Contained in a handsome custom designed olive green quarter leather and cloth clamshell box with a gilt stamped title to the spine. Some light age wear, about VG   Ethel Snowden (1881-1951) Viscountess Snowden. British socialist, human rights activist and feminist politician, wife of Philip Snowden (1864-1937) 1 st Viscount Snowden. British politician who served as Labour's first Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924, 1929-31.