Price: US$13.25 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1907. Archibald Constable (London). First thus. Hard Cover. Fine for age. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt. 6x5. 293pp. 480g. Written in 1904 (but only published in 1907) as a play for the Irish theatre as representing the old Ireland, but in fact, it was first presented in London to enormous popular praise which made it an immediate commercial success.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Olive green covers with gilt titles to spine which shows shelf wear. Gilt top page edges, others uncut. 293pp. No inscriptions internally. v. clean but covers grubby.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.02 + shipping
Description: Pp. lx+[ii]+294(last blank)+[2](advertisements) green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards slightly soiled and rubbed, with small surface graze near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the spine lightly browned and a trifle chipped at extremities; t.e.g., others uncut; bookplate on upper pastedown and same owner's initials in ink on the upper free endpaper, hinges starting at a few points, a few tiny edge chips, some pencilled underlining, a little light soiling and browning; Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1907. First U.K. edition. Laurence A83b. *The English edition contains a brief postscript to the Preface of John Bull's Other Island and a note on Euripidean verses in Major Barbara which were not included in the American edition published two days earlier.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$64.01 + shipping
Description: First edition (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 13cm), lxi, 272pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. The book itself is defective, because it lacks the final eleven leaves (pp 273-293). However, this copy has an ink inscription from the author on the front free endpaper: "Charles Roseley, 27 June 1907, from the Author".
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original sea green cloth stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First British edition. Shaw is perhaps the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare, and MAJOR BARBARA is one of his best plays. Published on the same day as the American edition, though actually issued to the general public two days later. The English edition, however, contains additions not present in the American edition. It is therefore the preferred text. Laurence, A83b. Armorial bookplate of R. H. F. Moncreiff affixed to front paste-down. Mild dust soiling to cloth, a tight, very good copy. (#128958)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$349.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A superb unopened First Impression collecting these three plays, the first commissioned by W. B. Yeats. Crown 8vo (176 x 119mm): lix,[3],293,[3]pp. Publisher's olive-green vertically ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; dun-colored dust jacket lettered in black and priced 6/-. An unopened, virtually flawless copy (jacket's spine panel lightly toned), tightly bound and clean throughout. Laurence A83b. Wells 34. Broad, pp. 7, 53-57, 92. "John Bull's Other Island" and "How He Lied to Her Husband" first appeared in German translation, in the Berliner Tageblatt, in November, 1904. A New York edition collecting only "John Bull's Other Island" and "Major Barbara" appeared shortly before this English edition, in 1907, which contains a brief postscript to "John Bull's Other Island" and a note on Euripidean verses in "Major Barbara" that do not appear in the American edition. "John Bull's Other Island" was commissioned for the opening of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, but Yeats rejected it as too long and too difficult to produce. Shaw says, in the Preface to this edition, that the play was rejected for "another reason . . . It was uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement, which is bent on creating a new Ireland after its own ideal, whereas my play is a very uncompromising presentment of the real old Ireland." Broad notes that "British prejudice against [Shaw's] plays began to break down in 1905, when King Edward VII attended a performance of 'John Bull's Other Island' at the Royal Court Theatre . . . " N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.