Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in six Scenes and an Epilogue, London: Constable and Company 1929, a dedicated copy from G Bernard
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Shaw, George Bernard. Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in six Scenes and an Epilogue, London: Constable and Company 1929, a dedicated copy from G Bernard Shaw to Helen Wills, inscribed on half title page ''Dear Helen Wills I promised you this at Clivedon. You may remember stealing my heart on that occasion. G. Bernard Shaw 19th July 1929''; dust jacket worn with losses and tears; sold together with a Helen Wills autobiography ''Fifteen-Thirty'', Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1937, (2). Helen Wills recalls the occasion in her autobiography, when George Bernard Shaw declared that ''tennis should be played in the long grass in meadows in the nude'' Provenance Helen Wills Collection, Christie's Auction South Kensington 15th June 1999, Lot 10.