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7 volumes. First Editions. Includes: Fabian Essays in Socialism. Edited by George Bernard Shaw. Frontispiece. Pictorial lime-green cloth, dark green lettering. First edition, second impression with the dated changed to 1890 on the frontis and front cover. London: The Fabian Society, 1889. The Quintessence of Ibsenism (2 copies). Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. First Edition. London: Walter Scott 1891. Love Among the Artists. Original decorated green cloth, dark green lettering. First Edition. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. Cashel Byron's Profession: Newly Revised with Several Prefaces and an Essay on Prizefighting (2 copies). Pictorial brown cloth, black lettering. First American authorized edition, preceded by two unauthorized editions. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. The Art of Rehearsal [caption title]. 14 pp. (12mo), printed blue wrappers. First separate edition. New York: Samuel French, [1928]. A eclectic selection of works by Shaw on a variety of subjects, including pugilism, Henrik Ibsen and the Fabian Society. 7 volumes in all, 2 titles are repeated.