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George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable, 1931.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher - Constable & co., London, 1931. 1st ed. thus. Very good condition, dark red boards with gilt lettering to front board and darkened spine, corners bumped, wear to boards. A little foxing internally, foxing to page edges.
Seller: The Mill Bookshop, Gatehouse of Fleet, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co, 1931.
Price: US$10.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, cloth bound, not leather. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co, 1931.
Price: US$11.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with a stain to a few of the back pages. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co, London, 1931.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st printing (1931). 1131pp. Original red cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine. Near Fine copy, no jacket
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable & Co. Ltd, 1931.
Price: US$15.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. First Edition. 1131 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and light marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild warping to front board.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co Ltd, 1931.
Price: US$16.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. First Edition. 1131 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Book has marked forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw, The. Constable & Co, 1931.
Price: US$19.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book In good condition for a book that's over 90 years, there is a 5cm tear on the jacket at the seam with the spine. Comes without dust jacket.
Seller: ChelseaBooks, London, LONDO, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Description: Burgundy leather over boards with gilt stamping.
Seller: Gavin's Books, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co. Ltd, London, 1931.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All the Plays, from Widower's Houses to The Music Cure. 1131 Pages. Text arranged in Double Columns. Red Cloth covers with Bright Gilt lettering to front and spine. Pages have a little light foxing on a few pages and some age darkening, otherwise in very good, clean condition. No inscriptions. Some nicks and fraying at top & bottom of spine. Book weighs 1.6 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.30 + shipping
Description: Octavo size (8vo) in red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, 247pp CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE+ unread copy (page-block edges and inner margin of fly-leaves slightly tanned) in a tanned but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] ._ __To see more of our Plays and scripts type DbbPLAYS in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS 1st Edition Thus (Text Revised for the Standard Edition).
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original brick brown cloth, very good plus, offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket. Dust jacket tape-re-enfored along the edges. The complete edition of Shaw's plays.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
SHAW, Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co, London, 1931.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo. Three quarter binding with leather and brown fabric. Gilt lettering to spine. GIlted top edge. Front endpages contain gift note. George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than 60ÊplaysÊduring his lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Good. Rubbing to leather on covers. Rubbing to corner and spine head. Binding tight. Textblock clean.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
G B Shaw. The complete plays of G B Shaw. Constable, 1931.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1931 Constable first edition large hardback, green leather binding with gilt titling; very good, clean copy, marbled end papers, presentation inscription dated 1931; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
SHAW, George Bernard.. The Complete Plays.. Constable & Co. 1931/1934, 1931.
Price: US$56.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 1931. WITH: Prefaces. 1934. 2 vols. Bound in stout half morocco in different shades of brown; Prefaces sl. marked. t.e.g.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Shaw, [George] Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. London Constable 1931, 1931.
Price: US$66.60 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo., bound in full patterned calf, 1131pp, t.e.g. Clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Foxing to edges, endpapers and lightly throughout, spine a little faded. Overall a Good copy. (SHELF 6 TOP) NOTE: Heavy Book: (1.6 kg +) postage outside the UK might incur a surcharge. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First volume contains all the Plays written by George Bernard Shaw. 1131 Pages. Published in 1931. The Second Volume contains the Prefaces. 1131 Pages. Published in 1934. Text arranged in Double Columns. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering to fronts and spines. The Plays Volume has a Gilt School Badge on front and Presentation Label on Endpaper dated 1931. No other inscriptions, pges in very good, clean condition. Slightly age darkened. A litttle fraying to cloth at top of spine on the Plays Volume. Heavy set, weighs 3.1 Kilos so Shipping outside UK wii be extra. Please ask if you would like more Picture, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
SHAW, George Bernard. COMPLETE PLAYS OF BERNARD SHAW. LONDON, CONSTABLE, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Shaw, Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable and Co, London, 1931.
Price: US$368.00 + shipping
Description: Small 4to. 1131 pp. Bound by Bayntun in handsome three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards; gilt ruling and lettering; marbled endpapers. A fine and lovely copy. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923), all included in this work. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.
Shaw, George Bernard. The Works of George Bernard Shaw (Standard Edition). Constable, London, 1931.
Price: US$634.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw. 32 volumes. Bound in red cloth. Top edge gilt. Revised and Reprinted. Printed between 1931 and 1937. Dusty, but in almost very good condition. Almost all volumes belong to the Standard edition, which, although a reprint of the Limited Collected edition which was published in 1930, contains some additions, among which it is to be noted The adventures of the black girl in her search for God. All volumes are evidently uniform with said edition, but some do not mention belonging to it. Here follows a list of the volumes by date of publication. 11 volumes were published in 1931, namely Heartbreak House + Great Catherine + Playlets of the War, Androcles & The Lion + Overruled + Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Back to Metuselah, Three Plays for Puritans, John Bull's other island + How he lied to her husband + Major Barbara, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant Vol I, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant Vol II, Immaturity, What I really wrote about the war, The Irrational Knot. 17 volumes were published in 1932, namely Pen portraits and reviews, Cashel Byron's Profession, Love among artists, Essays in Fabian Socialism, The Doctor's dilemma + Getting Married + The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, An unsocial socialist, Translations and tomfooleries, Major critical essays, Doctors' delusions + Crude criminology + Sham education, St. Joan + The apple cart, Misalliance + The dark lady of the sonnets + Fanny's first play, Music in London Vol. I, Music in London Vol. II, Music in London Vol. III, Our Theatres in the nineties Vol. I, Our Theatres in the nineties Vol. II, Our Theatres in the nineties Vol. III. 2 volumes were published in 1934, namely Too true to be good + Village wooing + On the rocks (which is stated to be a First publication) and Short Stories + Scraps and Savings (which contains an early reprint of The Black Girl etc). 1 volume was published in 1936: The Simpleton + The Six + The Millionairess (copyright page does not mention any previous printings) 1 volume was published in 1937: London Music in 1888-1889 as heard by Corno di Bassetto (later known as Bernard Shaw) with some further autobiographical particulars (copyright page does not mention any previous printings). The set is remarkably heavy, therefore please do expect additional postal charges.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom