Search Results: the sanity of art an exposure by shaw bernard

London: New Age Press. 1908. First edition.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket. moderate shelfwear, front cover nearly detached..

London: The New Age Press. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover.

New Age, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 1908. 104 pages. No dust jacket. Brown boards with a white cloth spine. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Very good. 104pp. small 8vo orig. buckram backed-boards, wear on one corner, No Jacket issued

London.: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911. First printing. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Very good in like dust jacket. 12mo.. Very good in like dust jacket.

London: New Age Press, 1908. Quarter Cloth. G to Vg. Bound in quarter cream cloth, boards covered with grey/brown paper, no dw, 104pp. Signed by Frank Horrabin (cartoonist, illustrator). Corners are bumped

London:: Constable and Company,, 1911.. original printed wrappers.. A very good copy with a few chips to wrappers, some foxing to the endsheets.. 12mo,.

London: New Age Press, 1908 Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 104pp, in paper wraps, spine mostly missing, front cover near detached, much underlining and other pencil markings. Reprint of an 1895 extended book review.. Soft Cover.

London: The New Age Press, 1908. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo. pp. 104, [2] publishers advertisements. Covers good with some general wear and rubbing, a little marked, spine and corners a little chipped. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, paper toned. A good copy; the variant with 4 colons to upper cover and to title page..

The New Age Press, London, 1908.. 1908. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, 104,(2)pp, pages browning, text otherwise clean and sound, paper-covered boards and cream quarter-cloth, boards browning, spine dull, Good condition .

London, The New Age Press, 1908.. 104+[2]pp. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, backstrip slightly darkened. Gilt upper edge. A very good copy.

London : New Age Press, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; 104 pages, 18 cm. Subjects; Nordau, Max 1849-1923. Entartung. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 19th century.

The New Age Press, 1908. Good. First state binding: brown paper wrappers with black lettering and the 'three decorative colon devices' to front wrapper (Laurence A86a). The copy has been bound in black cloth boards for Wigan Free Public Library, however, it has not been trimmed and retains its original dimensions - 16.5 x 10.7cm - as well as the untrimmed edges (fore- and bottom) (Laurence, A86a). 12mo, pp. 104 + (2) adverts. Black cloth, stamped gilt lettering to spine, faded. Rubbed, wear to extremities and loss to head and tail of spine. Edges dusty. Illustrated endpapers. Library label to front pastedown, blind stamps to front wrapper, title page and final page, and stamp to copyright page. Else, internally clean and well preserved, arguably due to the library binding. 'The Sanity of Art' was an expansion of Shaw's 1895 highly critical review of Max Nordau's Degeneration (1892) in Liberty, 'A Degenerate's View of Nordau'. In both versions, Shaw took to task the degenerate theories that were rife… Read More

London: The New Age Press, 1908 First Edition. iv, 104pp, 2pp publishers catalogue. t.e.g. VG.

London: The New Age Press, 1908. First edn. 12mo, pp. 104. A VG copy bound in cloth-backed boards. Laurence A86a.

London: The New Age Press. 1908. First edition, first printing [cloth issue]. First edition, first printing [cloth issue]. Publisher's paper covered boards with titles in black to the upper board and in gilt to the white cloth spine. An excellent near fine clean, square and tight copy. The contents are entirely complete, without inscriptions or stamps and with a few foxing spots to the text block edge. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: The New Age Press, 1908. [Essays and Criticism] VINTAGE, EARLY EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[4] 104 [2]. Cream quarter cloth, brown typographic paper over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Some light toning and spotting to preliminaries, rubbing to spine gilt and toning to cloth. Very good. 'The Sanity of Art' was written in response to Max Nordau's 'Degeneration' (published 1982) which criticised the fin de siècle modernist trends. However, Shaw advocates for these artists and for the individual to decide for themselves how to view the new aesthetic.

1908. London, The New Age Press, 1908. Small8vo. Fine hmorocco. (4),104 pp. First edition.

London: The New Age Press, 1908. Softcover. Good. First edition, first issue in brown printed wrappers (*Laurence* A86a). 16mo. 104pp. Newspaper clipping (reproducing a photograph of Shaw) affixed opposite the title page, pages lightly foxed with last few pages creased at top, binding is moderately worn at extremities with nicks and a short tear on lower spine, about very good. An essay written in response to Max Nordau's 1892 book *Degeneration*.

London: New Age Press, 1908. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; a fine copy.