Heartbreak House, Great Catherine and Playlets of the War - By George Bernard Shaw
1928 · New York
by WELLES, ORSON & GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
New York: Brentano’s, 1928. Later edition. With a handsome original self-portrait ink drawing signed by Orson Welles of himself as “Captain Shotover” in Welles’s 1938 Mercury Theatre New York stage production of Shaw’s Heartbreak House. On the front pastedown is an original etching bookplate by Marie Laurencin for art collector, book collector, and travel writer, Edward Wassermann. The only bookplate designed by Laurencin and depicts a young woman with a pearl necklace. Very good in a very good dust jacket with a striking portrait of Shaw on the front cover. (Inventory #: 15225J)