Signed book: Saint Joan. First edition, limited issue of 750. London: Constable & Co., 1924. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.25 x 15.75, 183 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in black ink, “Inscribed for Captain Roy Limbert, at the first Malvern Festival in August 1929 in his theatre, G. Bernard Shaw.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/G. Tan cloth-covered spine and blue and white illustrated paper-covered boards; edges worn, with small tears at spine-ends and chips along large portion of lower edges; waterstain along spine/rear hinge (not effecting interior); yellowing to edges and few areas of endpapers; minor soiling. Dust jacket has large chips/tears and creases along edges and folds; one large chip from center of spine; discolored and soiled; waterstains and some wrinkling, mostly to rear panel; horizontal crease across entire jacket; four pieces of non-archival tape to backside. The Malvern Festival was conceived as a week-long ‘immersion drama’ to take place at the Malvern Theatre, which was leased by Limbert; the inaugural festival featured the British premiere of Shaw’s The Apple Cart. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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