Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$5.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: lxi, 293pp. Full dark blue leather covers, gilt. The Plays of Bernard Shaw, Pocket Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom
Price: US$5.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cxix, 234pp. Full dark blue leather covers, gilt. The Plays of Bernard Shaw, Pocket Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom
Shaw, Bernard.. Translations and Tomfooleries.. Constable & Co Ltd., London., 1929.
Price: US$5.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 246pp. Full dark blue leather covers, gilt. The Plays of Bernard Shaw, Pocket Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Constable, London, 1929.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare 1929 edition of the play - of the 1905/6 edition with the preface 'First Aid to Critics'. Very good condition. Heavy weight paper - rough cut edges to the pages.
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue calf, VG. xviii+320pp, top edge gilt, endpapers yellowed, a nice copy. Publisher's Pocket Edition of the Plays of Bernard Shaw. Attractively produced small format edition. The half title reads 'Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant Vol II - Pleasant'. 250 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue calf, VG. xxviii+235pp, top edge gilt, endpapers yellowed, a nice copy. Publisher's Pocket Edition of the Plays of Bernard Shaw. Attractively produced small format edition. The half title reads 'Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant Vol I - Unpleasant'. 250 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Shaw, [ George ] Bernard. The Doctor's Dilema - Getting Married. Constable & Co, 1929.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue calf, VG. xciv+293pp, top edge gilt, endpapers yellowed, a nice copy. Publisher's Pocket Edition of the Plays of Bernard Shaw. Attractively produced small format edition. 250 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Shaw, Bernard. John Bull's Other Island. In Four Acts. Constable & Company Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY - from the personal collection of Francis M. O'Brien, author and legendary Maine Bookseller, with his SIGNATURE. lix, [3], 116pp, [4] advertising, bound in original tan/green cloth, with binding and hinges tight. News article laid-in "G. B. Shaw Derides Income Tax Leniency". Spine darkened with light soiling, some pages uncut.
Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.
SHAW George Bernard. THE PLAYS OF BERNARD SHAW 12 Volumes. Constable & Co., 1929, 1929.
Price: US$96.57 + shipping
Description: Pocket edn 5th printing. 12 vols boxed set. 12mo (7 x 4½ ins). Original uniform gilt tooled calf, top edges gilt (near Fine), in blue cloth-backed velvet-lined box (small spilt on front edges and a little scuffed at edges). Pp. various, illus with b&w portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard in St Joan (some vols with previous owner's blind-stamped address on front endpaper; no inscriptions). Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion; Back to Methuselah; Doctor's Dlilemma, Getting Married; Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War; John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara; Man and Superman with Revolutionist's Handbook; Misalliance, Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play; Plays Unpleasant Widowers' Houses, Philanderer, Mrs Warren's Profession; Plays Pleasant Arms and the Man, Candida, Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell; Saint Joan, Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: Three Plays for Purtians Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion; Translations and Tomfooleries.
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Period Blue Calf Full-Leather Bindings with Gilt Facsimilie Signature on fronts. Gilt Decoration and Lettering on spines. Top page edges Gilt. Sewn in Silk Bookmarks. 7" Tall. The books contain several titles and contain 34 Plays in total. Titles are: "PLAYS PLEASANT: Arms and the Man; Candida; Man of Destiny; Yoiu Never can Tell"; "SAINT JOAN; the Shweing-Up of Blanco Posnet"; "HEARTBREAK HOUSE"; "Great Catherine"; "Playlets of the War"; "PLAYS UNPLEASANT: "Widowers Houses"; "The Philanderer"; "Mrs Warren's Profession"; "DOCTOR'S DILEMMA"; Getting Married"; "ANDROCLES AND THE LION"; "Overuled"; "Pygmalion"; "JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND"; "How He Lied to Her Husband";" Major Barbara"; "TRANSLATIONS AND TOMFOOLERIES"; "APPLE CART", "MAN AND SUPERMAN with the Revolutionists Handbook and Maxims for Revolution"; "MISALLIANCE"; "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets"; "Fanny's First Play"; "THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS: The Devil's Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra; Captain Brassbound's Conversion"; "BACK TO METHUSELAH". all 1929 Reprints of the 1926 Edition except "The Apple Cart" which is the Copyright Edition 1932. Fine Monochrome Photo Portrait of GBS frontis of the St. Joan Volume. Some wear to leather at spine ends. 2 vols have small strips missing from the top, above the gilt titles. Name in corner of endpapers, dated 1943. No other inscriptions. Very nice, set. The 13 Books weigh 3 Kilos so Shipping Outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote.
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Plays 13 Vols.. Constable, London, 1929.
Price: US$128.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue leather with gilt titles and decoration; top edges gilt. In V/G box. Additional postage required; please e-mail for quote. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$148.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full set of 13 Volumes, all dated 1929 except for "The Apple Cart" which is 1932. Frontispiece of "Saint Joan" has a fine Monochrome Portrait Photo of George Bernard Shaw with Facsimilie Signature beneath. Other Volumes are: Translations and Tomfooleries; Man and Superman; Androcles and the Lion (incluydes Pygmalion); Plays Unpleasant; Plays Pleasant; Misalliance; Three Plays for Puritans (includes "Caesar and Cleopatra"); John Bull's Other Island; Heartbreak House; The Doctor's Dilemma; Back to Methuselah; Most volumes contain several Plays. Contemporary Dark Blue Calf Full-Leather Bindings with Gilt Facsimilie Signature to fronts. Intricate Gilt Decoration and Lettering covers the spines. Top page edges Gilt. Sewn in yellow silk bookmarks. 7" Tall. Previous owner's name on corner of endpapers, no other inscriptions. Slight edge wear to leather, a few volumes have little bits of leather missing at tops of spines, 1 vol has a piece 1/2" long missing from top of spine, above the lettering (see photos). Attractive set, weighs 3.5 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more pictures, information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw. The Plays of Bernard Shaw. Constable, 1929.
Price: US$160.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A thirteen volume uniform set of the pocket edition comprising the complete plays of George Bernard Shaw. the first twelve volumes are dated 1929 and the volume containing the last play ' the Apple Cart ' which was first performed in 1929 is dated 1932. Volumes are bound in blue leather with gilt to spine and top of text block, all volumes have marker ribbons one or two of which have frayed slightly on the ends. there is slight wear at the top of the spines of one or two volumes and very slight wear to covers of one of two but overall they comprise a really nice looking set of these literary classics. Photographs available on request.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. THE PLAYS OF BERNARD SHAW 13 Volumes. Constable & Company, Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint of the Pocket Edition, 1926. All thirteen volumes are in excellent condition; pages clean and bright. Slight yellowing and foxing on the fore-edges. Top edges gilt. Endpapers clean. All with blue silk bookmark. Original dark blue flexible leather. Gilt titles and decoration on the spines. Gilt facsimile signature on the upper covers. Very light wear on corners and edges. Leather not scratched or scuffed. Very fine set. VG+ Size: 4 1/4 x 7
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed association copy of this collection from the Nobel winning playwright, presented warmly to Alfred G. Arvold, who was instrumental in the US for the development and spread of the "little theater" movement. Arvold was a noted regional theater figure and founded the Little Country Theater in Fargo, ND. This copy is inscribed to him by Shaw at the Malvern Theater, whose yearly festivals were noted for the stagings of Shaw's plays. An uncommonly detailed and lengthy inscription. 7'' x 4.75''. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Publisher's ads at rear. 320, [4] pages. Inscribed by Shaw to the half-title: "Inscribed to / Alfred G. Arvold / in grateful acknowledgement of his / services to dramatic art in virgin fields / in the United States of America. / G. Bernard Shaw / Malvern / 29th Aug. 1930." Mild rubbing, soil to cloth.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.