Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Description: red cloth, 274pp., play texts
Seller: Theatreshire Books, Dacre, NYK, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vi, 274pp, owner's name. Original cloth. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: N. G. Lawrie Books, sheffield, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.70 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cardinal red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt upper edges. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 273 printed pages of text. Tan age spots to the end papers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Top edge gilt. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with well-sunned spine and chips and tears to edges. 274pp. Three palys by George Bernard Shaw. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.25 x 5.5 inches
Seller: Godley Books, Hyde, United Kingdom
Shaw, Bernard. Too True to be Good, Village Wooing and On the Rocks. Constable, London, 1934.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A volume of the standard edition of the bworks of Bernard Shaw. Red cloth with gilt tiles,dustjacket is good with a few nicks and with darkened spine. Binding is good with a one inch nick through which the webbing is showing between front board and front endpaper. Pages are clean and tight. This is a particula bright and good copy
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition without jacket on red cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Shaw, George Bernard. Too True to be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. London; Constable;, 1934.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing thus. Very good in red cloth with some foxing. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NICE FIRST EDITION BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. 3 PLAYS. 274 PAGES. TOP PAGE GILT. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE. SPLENDID RED CLOTH . MINOR STAIN ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. EMAIL ME FOR FURTHER INFO OR PICTURES. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$30.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. vi, 274 pp. Weak hinges, still a very nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Constable, 1934. First edition. 8vo. Red linen binding, titles in gilt, top edge gilt, 274 pp. Dust jacket is quite sunned with light edgewear. Light acid stain to front endpaper. Near fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: 1st editions hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo vi + 274, v + 199pp., No dust jackets o/w nice copies
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Village Wooing; On the Rocks London Three plays accompanied by a long preface from the Irish master of words A St Lawrence. 1°. ED 274 pp RED IN ENGLISH w/ dusck jacket. printed in Great Britain. preface by AYOT ST. LAWRENCE 1933. NICE BOOK- VID 3 ABAJ
Seller: DEL SUBURBIO LIBROS- VENTA PARTICULAR, C.AB.A, CAP, Argentina
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author: ÒTo the Bakers from the Shaws, Panama, 3rd Mary 1934, GBS.Ó Very good in a near fine dust jacket
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy, Inscribed to the Printer One Week Before Publication. Inscribed on the half-title: "to William Maxwell / from Bernard Shaw / 8th Feb, 1934." Laurence gives the publication date as Feb 15, 1934, fully a week after this inscription. Laurence A216 Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Fine copy, with the bookplate of the printer, WILLIAM MAXWELL (see inscription, below). Fine in quarter green morocco clamshell box with black leather spine labels
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to John Drinkwater. Inscribed on the half-title: "to John Drinkwater/ G.B. Shaw / his Forerunner. 26th July 1934." Beneath the inscription Drinkwater was written in pencil, "Malvern Festival. JD." Fine association. Laurence A216 Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Near fine copy (front hinge cracking) in a fine (and rare) dust jacket. Morocco ex-libris of John Drinkwater on front pastedown (see below). In cloth slipcase with chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Rare 1934 1st edition of George Bernard Shaws three plays: Too True To Be Good; Village Wooing; On the Rocks. The book is Signed by the Entire 1961 Broadway Cast of Shaws play, Too True to be Good. Signatures include Lillian Gish (The First Lady of the Silent Screen), Robert Preston, Cedrick Hardwicke, Cyril Ritchard, David Wayne, Eileen Heckart, Glynis Johns and Ray Middleton. Also tipped in is a personal note from actress Glynis Johns, inscribed Best Wishes, Glynis Johns. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Covers are flat and true, corners are square. Pages are sunned, typical of age. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This Fine Condition, first edition, signed book by the entire cast of the 1961 Broadway hit, Too True to be Good, is a true one of a kind collectible treasure.
Seller: Finn's Rare Books, Encino, CA, U.S.A.