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SHAW, George Bernard. Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, London: Constable and Company, 1929. 8, half title, original cloth, dust-jacket (chipped), partly uncut. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on half title: "Dear Helen Wills I promised you this at Clivedon. You may remember stealing my heart on that occasion. G. Bernard Shaw 19th July 1929".
Helen Wills recalls this occasion in her autobiography Fifteen Thirty (New York, 1937, her own copy which is included in the lot), when George Bernard Shaw declared that "tennis should be played in the long grass in meadows in the nude" (pages 150-151). (2)
Helen Wills recalls this occasion in her autobiography Fifteen Thirty (New York, 1937, her own copy which is included in the lot), when George Bernard Shaw declared that "tennis should be played in the long grass in meadows in the nude" (pages 150-151). (2)