SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Too True To Be Good - Village Wooing - On the Rooks - Three Plays. London Constable 1934, 1934.

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.

Shaw, George Bernard. Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. Constable & Co, London, 1934.

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.

Shaw, George Bernard. Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. Constable & Co, London, 1934.

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.

Bernard Shaw. Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing, On The Rocks – Signed by Lillian Gish and Entire 1961 Broadway Cast. Constable and Company Limited, 1934.

Price: US$3950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Rare 1934 1st edition of George Bernard Shaw’s three plays: Too True To Be Good; Village Wooing; On the Rocks. The book is Signed by the Entire 1961 Broadway Cast of Shaw’s 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.