Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing stated, June 1928. Decorated cloth covers bright, just a little soil, lightly bumped all around. Interior clean and tight.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.53 + shipping
Description: Un volume (25 cm) di XLVI-495 pagine. In lingua inglese. Tutta tela editoriale verde olivo con decorazioni ai piatti e titolo al dorso. Ottime condizioni.
Seller: Libreria BACBUC - Studio bibliografico, Roma, RM, Italy
Price: US$16.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A non-fiction book written by Irish playwright [George] Bernard Shaw, employing socialist and Marxist thought. First American Edition. Decorated boards, xlvi, 495 pp. Moderate wear at ends of spine and corner tps, previous owner's name in ink (about same age as the book) on front pastedown endpaper, a few leaves faintly creased, clean text, tight binding.
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Shaw, Bernard. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Brentano's, 1928.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Irish playwright's unsurprisingly accessible and engaging treatise about socialist and marxian thinking and pitched at British and American women, going through them, he says, so as to get to American men. employing socialist and Marxist thought. Stated First Printing, June 1928, but of the First American Edition, and he adds here a Foreword especially for American readers. Nicely decorated green cloth over boards, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, with a clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bookplate from Theodore and Sue Lewis inside front flap. Bumping to spine head and foot. Rough-cut fore-edges, light dust soiling along top. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, heavily worn, chipped along top edge, front panel detached but present, behind a plastic coat. xlvi, 1-495 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 9.5X6.5" in greenish cloth. Interesting twined Celtic design on front cover. A few smudges, esp. on back cover. spinebeginning to fade. Rear end papers a bit foxed. Balance of book in very nice condition. NO JACKET.
Seller: THE BOOK VAULT, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good. 1st (no Additional ptg). 1" tear of sl soiled spine. Carrier is title p. publisher, but Brentano's on spine. The 1928 date on title page is inked over and "1938" written in pen just below.
Seller: bccbooks, WHITE PLAINS, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition. Original decorated cloth, near fine, no markings, no writing, no boolplates. Small contemporary bookshop sticker on rear endpaper. Very scarce in this nice condition.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 495.Cover slightly soiled and bumped at corners, o/w a VG tight copy. Shaw offers an economic and political primer to both sexes.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Stated First Printing, June 1928. A book written by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish dramatist, literary critic, ardent socialist, and winner of the Nobel prize in 1925, in response to his sister-in-law's request for a "few ideas on socialism." Includes a foreword for American readers. Index. xlvi, 495 pp. Laid in is a card with notes presumably from the previous owner who objected to this early example of "mansplaining" ("Both give me a fit, so I yearn to just stir up a fuss, he presumes he's quite qualified to act as a guide to intelligent women. . .") Very good in pale yellow cloth with green interlocking Celtic knots - toning to the spine, some wear to the covers, previous owner's name on front pastedown, no dust jacket.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 495. Name and inscription on the end paper. A nice tight copy. Shaw offers and economic and political primer to both sexes.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 495.Cover little soiled and spine worn, o/w VG. Shaw offers an economic and political primer to both sexes.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hbk royal 8vo no dj (as issued?) gilt and decorated cloth boards showing some discoloration and spotting at rear and also at upper front corner now in custom acetate jacket light foxing to front endpaperotherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked copy
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 45pp., bound in light lime green cloth decorated in dark green and gilt, decorative spine lettered in gilt, some finger soiling, title page with lower corner wrinkled with small piece torn away. A very good copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: F/G. D.J. HAS A ONE INCH DEEP PIECE MISSING AT THE SPINE TOP (PARTIALLY AFFECTING THE TITLE) WITH A THUMB-NAIL SIZE CHIP AT THE FRONT TOP FORE-EDGE CORNER, A TEAR WITH ASSOCIATED CREASING AT THE BOTTOM FRONT SPINE CORNER, A FEW OTHER SHORT EDGE TEARS, THE WHITE SPINE PANEL TANNED, CORNERS WORN, AND SOME CREASES TO THE FRONT FLAP. DESPITE FLAWS A PRESENTABLE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
George Bernard Shaw. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. Brentano's, 1928.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brentano's first printing hardcover. Poor dust jacket. Cover clean and bright. Pages age-toning but unmarked. Binding tight.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$68.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing, June 1928 (stated). Large 8vo hardcover in pale green cloth oranetly decorated in darker green and gilt. xlvi+ 493 pp. with index. Generally fine, very narrow strip of a no longer present bookplate front free endpaper, spine ends a touch bumped. In edgeworn Eric Kennington designed dust jacket, price clipped but with a bit of the price still visible.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st American edition; dj w/moderate chipping, rubbing, unclipped price ($3.00) , in mylar; lite green c wdarker green decorations (Celtic knot design)/gilt titles; 495 clean, unmarked pages/index Size: 4 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$119.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 495 pp. Original green decorated cloth. A fascinating and detailed examination of the political and economic climate of early-twentieth century Britain, and the causes and changing patterns, by this celebrated playwright.
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.