THE PLAYWRIGHT AND THE PIRATE: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence.
Edited, with an introduction, by Stanley Weintraub. Pp. xxii+274(last blank), 2 full page portraits, index; med. 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, browned on reverse and at edges and backstrip, also slightly foxed, the edges chipped and split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1982. First U.S. edition. *'The 121 letters in this volume, spanning more than 35 years, reveal much of the private men and become in effect a pair of parallel autobiographies. Letters previously published - such as Shaw's famous remembrance to Harris of Oscar Wilde and his hilarious spoof-Harrisian biography of himself - are now published for the first time in accurate and complete texts, as is Shaw's memorable letter about his sex-life' [wrapper blurb]. Item #182883
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