Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
George Bernard Shaw. Androcles And The Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion. Constable And Company, 1916.
Price: US$23.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1916. Hardcover. 8vo.Original green cloth. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Description: 1st ed. thus hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo lxiv + 114pp., Collected edition, published the same year as the first. No dust jacket o/w nice copy in pale green boards
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$244.77 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the cloth with a few faint marks. The contents, with offsetting to the endpapers, flyleaf, and rear advertisement sheet, are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. This volume contains the first printing of 'Pygmalion' which has been adapted for film twice, the first in 1938 starring and directed by Leslie Howard and most famously in 1964 under the title 'My Fair Lady' starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, directed by George Cukor. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard.. Androcles And the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion.. London: Constable., 1916.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. 205 pp. Very Good, Mustard Cloth with rubbing, stains, sun-fading, edge wear; minor staining on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; bookplate of previous owner (UC Berkeley Bancroft Library) inside cover. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$9375.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the taboo word "bloody" spoken by her character Eliza Doolittle. In 1938 the play was made into an excellent movie, for which Shaw's screenplay won an Oscar, starring Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins. The play reached a much wider audience when it was transformed by Alan Jay Lerner into the musical MY FAIR LADY and later the film of the same title directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn who replaced an irate Julie Andrews the star of the Broadway musical. The Irish playwright, who wrote more plays than Shakespeare, won the Nobel Prize in 1925 and lived to the age of 94, dying from complications resulting from a broken leg suffered after falling out of a tree. This is a fine association copy INSCRIBED on the half title page and SIGNED "To Charles Ricketts/from Bernard Shaw/14th July 1916." While signed books by Shaw are not rare, signed copies of this work are truly scarce, especially one with such a fine association. Charles Ricketts was a theatre designer who worked not only with Shaw but also with Oscar Wilde and others. He also illustrated books by Wilde, Shaw, and others and established the Vale Press with his partner, Charles Shannon. This copy belonged to William Randolph Hearst and was sold in his sale at Parke Bernet on 22 November 1939, lot 478. Tasteful bookplate of Henry Walker Bagley and Nancy Reynolds Bagley on the front pastedown. Housed in a cloth chemise and a green half-morocco slipcase with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Light wear to joints. Near Fine in a Fine chemise and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.