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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Cashel Byron's Profession. [London]: The Modern Press, 1886. 8vo, original blue-green printed wrappers, slight wear at ends of spine, lower fore-corner of front wrapper a trifle chipped; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book (a novel about boxing), preceded by two Fabian Society pamphlets; the variant of slightly smaller size and with the blank leaf at end of the book. Laurence A3a.
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Cashel Byron's Profession. [London]: The Modern Press, 1886. 8vo, original blue-green printed wrappers, slight wear at ends of spine, lower fore-corner of front wrapper a trifle chipped; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book (a novel about boxing), preceded by two Fabian Society pamphlets; the variant of slightly smaller size and with the blank leaf at end of the book. Laurence A3a.