Do We Agree? : A Debate Between G.K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw
Hartford, CT: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1928. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's yellow boards, in dust jacket. 47pp. 7.5" x 5" Mild rubbing to boards, still fine in near fine very lightly edge worn and toned dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #239106
THE PEAK OF PUBLIC RHETORICAL DISCOURSE
The friendship—and, at times, heated rivalry—between G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw remains one of the most fascinating in literary and cultural history. Do We Agree? captures the culmination of a series of spirited public debates between 1911 and 1927, pitting Chesterton’s paradoxical orthodoxy against Shaw’s incisive Fabian socialism. Moderating, with characteristic vigor, was their frequent ally and foil, Hilaire Belloc.
First published in London in 1928, this American edition followed just weeks later. It offers a scarce and important record of twentieth-century public discourse at its most electrifying—made rarer still in the presence of the original pictorial dust jacket featuring all three intellectual giants.
[Hasnes, C16].
Price: $350.00