Shaw, George Bernard Passion, Poison and Petrification or The Fatal Gazogene

Passion, Poison and Petrification or The Fatal Gazogene by George Bernard Shaw

Published in London by Harry Furniss in 1905  1st UK edition 8vo

A comic mock melodrama written to raise funds for charity.

Bound in grey boards with printed spine label.

Some wear to front joint and spine ends, text toned.

First appearance in print taken from Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual for 1905. Against Shaw's wishes bookseller Charles Farmer sold such excerpts though in different bindings to this one.  With pasted portrait of Shaw.