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Shaw Inscribed Book to Stewart Headlam, a Christian Socialist Who Formed the Church and Stage Guild to Remove the Social Stigma Attached to the Performance Arts

Signed Book, "John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How He Lied to Her Husband", by George Bernard Shaw, First British Edition Presentation Copy inscribed, "To Stewart D. Headlam / from G. Bernard Shaw / 17th June 1907", Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, London, 1907, 293 pp., 12 mo., top edge gilt, green cloth stamped with gilt titles on spine, no dust jacket, encased in a quarter leather custom slipcase with gilt titles and five raised bands on spine. Binding is tight, light soiling to covers and sunning to book spine; near fine. Custom slipcase is in fine condition with light soiling.

George Bernard Shaw first met Stewart Headlam through the Land Reform Union, a Georgite [Henry George society in favor of land nationalization. Headlam, an ordained clergyman, was banned from preaching because his sermons attacked the wide gap between rich and poor and promoted distrust of middle-class reformers. Shaw's plays, "John Bull's Other Island" (1904) and "Major Barbara" (1905) concern the issues of poverty and women's rights and imply that socialism would help solve the problems created by capitalism.

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