George Bernard Shaw

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PLAYS....below are London: Constable and Company

John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband, 1907. 1^st ed. Cloth faded. VG +1 1^st ed, 1907. VG

The Devil’s Disciple: A Melodrama in Three Acts. London: Archibald Constable, 1908. 1^st ed. Spine darkened. VG

The Doctor’s Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911. 1^st ed. VG +2 1^st eds, 1911. Spines darkened VG +1 with frontis. 1920 VG

Androcles and the Lion; Overruled; Pygmalion, 1916. 1^st ed. Spine faded. VG +1 1925. VG

Heartbreak House; Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, 1919. 1^st ed. VG +1 1^st ed, 1919. Cloth wrinkled. VG

The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet; a Sermon in Crude Melodrama. London: Constable, 1920. VG

Back to Methuselah; a Metabiological Pentateuch, 1921. 1^st ed. VG +1 1st ed., 1921 VG +1 1924. Spine lean. VG

Saint Joan; a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, 1924. 1^st ed. 1” chip to dj. VG/VG +2 1924, 1^st eds. Spines darkened. No djs. VG +1 1926. 1” chip to dj spine.VG/VG

Translations and Tomfooleries, 1926. 1^st ed. VG +3 1^st eds, 1926 VG

The Apple Cart, 1930. 1^st ed. Dj is somewhat attached to the boards by the plastic covering. VG/VG +1 1930, 1^st ed.

Geneva: a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts. London: Constable, (1939). 1^st ed. Illus by Feliks Topolski. F/VG

PLAYS below are NY: Brentano’s. (Paper labels on spines often darkened).

Man and Superman; a Comedy and a Philosophy, 1905. 8^th reprint. VG

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, the First Volume, Containing the Three Unpleasant Plays, 1907. VG +1 1907 VG

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, the Second Volume, Containing the Four Pleasant Plays, 1910.

Three Plays by Brieux…with Preface by Bernard Shaw, English Versions by Shaw…, 1911. 1^st ed. Frontis. VG

Misalliance; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny’s First Play; with a Treatise on Parents and Children, 1914. 1^st ed. VG

Back to Methuselah; a Metbiiological Pentateuch, 1921. 1^st ed. VG

Don Juan in Hell; from Man and Superman. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. 1^st ed. thus. Photos. F/VG

Too True to be Good, Village Wooing, & On The Rocks. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1934. 1^st ed. F/VG +1 1934, 1^st ed. Review slip laid in. Spine label faded. VG

Die Heilige Johanna (German text). Berlin: S. Fischer, 1924. Translated by Siegfried Trebitsch. 1^st ed. Boards a little bowed. VG

By Shaw (not including plays)

Love Among the Artists. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. 1^st ed. Pict cloth. VG

Cashel Byron’s Profession. NY: Brentano’s, 1904. Spine lean. VG

An Essay on Going to Church. Boston: John Luce, 1905. 1^st ed. Paper labels. VG

The Irrational Knot; Being the Second Novel of His Nonage. Archibald Constable, 1905. 1^st ed. Spine strip is detached and laid in, thus Poor

The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate. London: New Age Press, 1908. 1^st ed. thus. VG

Fabian Essays in Socialism; by Bernard Shaw (& 5 others). London: Walter Scott Publishing, 1908. 1^st ed. Stapled wrappers. Fair

Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Shaw, 1909

The Quintessence of Ibsenism; Now Completed to the Death of Ibsen. London: Constable, 1922. 3^rd ed. VG

The Unprotected Child and the Law. London: Six Points Group, (nd, circa 1923). 1^st ed thus. 8 pp. wrappers. VG +1 VG

The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home. London: Constable, 1933. 1^st ed. VG

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. NY: Dodd, Mead, (1933). 1^st ed. Illus by John Farleigh. 1^st ed. Fine

Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1934. 1^st ed thus. Illus by John Farleigh. VG

In Good King Charles’s Golden Days. London: Constable, (1939). 1^st ed. Illus by Feliks Topolski. Pict cloth. Spine lean. VG

Everybody’s Political; What’s What? London: Constable, (1944). 1^st ed. Frontis. F/VG +1 VG/VG and +1 no DJ VG

The Crime of Imprisonment. NY: Philosophical Library, 1946. 1^st ed thus. Illus by William Gropper. F/F

Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, Shakes Versus Shaw. NY: Dodd, Mead, (1951). 2^nd printing. DJ chips along top and spine. F/Good

The Rationalization of Russia. Bloomington: Indiana Universiy, (1964). 1^st ed. thus. F/F

[Caudwell, Christopher, Editor]. Studies in a Dying Culture [essays by Shaw, H. G. Wells, Freud, D. H. Lawrence… NY: Dodd Mead, (1938). 1^st ed. F/VG

[St. John, Christopher, Editor]. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence. London: Reinhardt & Evans, (1949). Reset edition. Frontis. Full leather, gilt. VG

[Laurence, Dan H., Editor]. Bernard Shaw Platform and Pulpit; Previously Uncollected Speeches. NY: Hill and Wand, (1961). 1^st ed thus. F/F

[Tauber, Abraham, Editor]. Shaw on Language. NY: Philosophical Library, (1963). 1^st ed. F/VG

[Green, David, and Dan H. Laurence, Editors]. The Matter with Ireland. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. 1^st ed. Frontis. Presentation copy, “For Michael Katanka,/with gratitude for his assistance/in turning up elusive texts for/use in this series of volumes. Dan H. Laurence/ 16 October 1966” and 11-line typed memo to Katanka, signed by Laurence, dated 26 Oct 1966, re. “What a Member can do on Joining the Fabian Society.” F/F

[Dent, Alan, Editor]. Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. 1^st ed. VG/VG +1 Rear DJ panel separated, though contained in the Mylar. Poor/VG

[Preface and translation by Jean Cocteau] Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Correspondence (French text). Paris: Calmann-Levy, (1961). 1^st ed thus. Unopened. Paperback. Fine

WORKS below are from the “Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw.” London: Constable and Company. Red cloth, gilt spines TEG,. [shown are latest dates on copyright page]

Immaturity. (“Reprinted for this Standard Edition 1931”). VG

John Bull’s Other Island and How He Lied to He Husband and Major Barbara. (“Revised and reprinted for this Standard Edition 1931”). No dj. Fine

Misalliance, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, & Fanny’s First Play. (“Revised and reprinted for this Standard Edition 1932”). Fine

Music in London 1890 - 94. Volume 1. (“Revised and reprinted for this Standard Edition 1932”). No dj. Fine

Music in London 1890 – 94. Volume 3. (“Revised and reprinted for this Standard Edition 1932”). No dj. Fine

Heartbreak House; Great Catherine; Playlets of the War. (Reprinted 1933”). VG/VG

Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue. (“Separately issued 1938”). Hinge broken, pp. 145/146 detached and laid in. F/G

Geneva; Cymbeline Refinished; Good King Charles. (“First collective publication 1946”). Spotting to endpapers. F/F +1 VG/VG

Sixteen Self Sketches. London: Constable, 1949. (“First printed for this Standard Edition 1949”). VG/VG

BY OR ABOUT SHAW

Deacon, Renee. Bernard Shaw as Artist – Philosopher: an Exposition of Shavianism. London: A. C. Fifield, 1910. 1^st ed. “With the compliments of the author”. VG

Palmer, John. George Bernard Shaw; Harlequin or Patriot? NY: Century, 1915. 1^st ed. Frontis. VG +1 VG

Rider, Dan. Adventures with Bernard Shaw. London: Morley & Mitchell, (nd, circa 1925). Frontis (dated 1925). Foxing. VG/VG

Henderson, Archibald. Is Bernard Shaw a Dramatist? NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. 1^st ed. Frontis. No. 81/1,000. Paper label, slipcase. Fine +1 No.91/1,000. No slipcase. VG

Broad, C. Lewis. Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw. London: A & C Black, (1929). 1^st ed. 1 x 2” chip to DJ. VG/VG

Broad, C. Lewis. Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw. NY: Macmillan, (1929). 1^st ed. Paper label. VG

Colbourne, Maurice. The Real Bernard Shaw. Toronto: J. M. Dent, 1930. 1^st ed. Frontis. Hinge weak. Signed, “Wilma Copper/Maurice Colbourne”. VG/VG

Braybrooke, Patrick. The Subtlety of George Bernard Shaw. London: Cecil Palmer, (1930). 1^st ed. Paper label. VG

Harris, Frank. Frank Harris on Bernard Shaw. London: Victor Gollancz, 1931. 1^st ed. Pieces of DJ laid in. VG

Matthews, W. R. The Adventures of Gabriel in His Search for Mr. Shaw. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1933). 1^st ed. Illus by Ruth Wood. VG/VG +1 1933, 2^nd impression VG

Hackett, J. P. Shaw: George Versus Bernard. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1937. 1^st ed. Fine/Fine

Deans, Marjorie. Meeting at the Sphinx; Gabriel Pascal’s Production of Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar and Cleopatra”…with Forwards by Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. London: Macdonald & Co, (nd). 1^st ed. Color plates. VG/VG

Catalogue of an Exhibition Celebrating the Ninetieth Birthday of Bernard Shaw. London: National Book League, (nd, circa 1946). 1^st ed. Wrappers. Fine +1 VG

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: “A Good Man Fallen Among Fabians.” London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1950. 1^st ed. F/VG

West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: “A Good Man Fallen Among Fabians.” NY: International Publishers, 1950. 1^st ed. VG

Winsten, Stephen. Days with Bernard Shaw. London: Readers Union, 1951. 1^st ed. Photos. VG/VG +1 cover waterstained Fair/VG

MacCarthy, Desmond. Shaw. London: Macgibbon, 1951. 1^st ed. F/F

Chesterton, G. K. George Bernard Shaw. London: The Bodley Head, (1961). 9^th impression. F/VG

Kilty, Jerome. Dear Liar: a Comedy of Letters Adapted from the Correspondence of Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. NY: Dodd, Mead, (1960). 1^st ed. Frontis. F/F

George Bernard Shaw. London: Arthur Baker, 1963. Uncorrected proof. Photos. Some edits in pencil. Good

Smith, J. Percy. Unrepentant Pilgrim: Light on Bernard Shaw’s Private Life & Formative Years. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. 1^st ed. F/VG

Laurence, Dan. H. Shaw, Books and Libraries. Austin: University of Texas, (1976). 1^st ed, 1 of 500. Frontis. Paper label. VG

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