The Doctor’s Dilemma. Getting Married & The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1918. Fourth Edition. Pp xciv, 407. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. in publisher’s dust jacket printed in black. A nice bright copy in lightly chipped dust jacket.

Inscribed by the Author on title page:

“Inscribed to Mr. John H. Hutchinson, by Bernard Shaw, 20th Dec. 1920.”

Shaw stated that he wrote ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma’ to meet a challenge from his friend William Archer, a theatre critic, who claimed that Shaw could only be regarded as a supreme dramatist when he had written a play about death.

The resultant work, a satire on the British medical profession in the early 20th century, remains widely regarded as a key work in Shaw’s canon and in the fictional literature on medical ethics.