THE ARTS LEAGUE OF SERVICE ANNUAL 1921-1922: THE ART OF REHEARSAL
[London]: [1922]. First Edition. wraps. Printed tan wraps; 32 pages. Laurence B123. Extracted by Shaw from a 1914 letter to Matthew Edward McNulty.
[London]: [1922]. First Edition. wraps. Printed tan wraps; 32 pages. Laurence B123. Extracted by Shaw from a 1914 letter to Matthew Edward McNulty.
London: Constable, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the taboo word "bloody".....
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Laurence A195b. First English Separate Edition. Both flaps and the rear panel of the dustwrapper present.
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Laurence A195b. First English Separate Edition.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. John Farleigh. Hardcover. Quarto, bound in lime green natural linen with a dark green morocco label on the front cover with gilt lettering and decoration. With a new, previously unpublished 49-page introduction by Shaw. Printed at the Marchbanks Press. Copy #845 of 1500 SIGNED.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. John Farleigh. Hardcover. Quarto, bound in lime green natural linen with a dark green morocco label on the front cover with gilt lettering and decoration. With a new, previously unpublished 49-page introduction by Shaw. Printed at the Marchbanks Press. Copy #65 of 1500 SIGNED.....
London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd, 1907. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Reprint of the 1901 Second Revised Edition of Shaw's first book with additions. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to his Swedish translator, Hugo Vallentin, on the half-title page and dated 12 December 1908. Bookplate of Archibald.....
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. Laurence A54: 2500 copies printed.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth. Laurence A54: 2500 copies printed.
London: A. C. Fifield, 1908. Second Edition. wraps. Orange-brown wraps. Laurence A54b: "This 'edition' was reprinted from plates or moulds of the first edition [1904] ... as No. 5 in the Fabian Socialist Series." Contains a new preface by Shaw.
New York: Brentano's, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, preceding the British and unauthorized. Laurence A75a.
New York: Little Leather Library Corp. n.d. wraps. A much later printing, likely from the 1930s, bound in greenish brown wraps that are meant to imitate leather. A very small book, 3" x 3-3/4"
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1943 and 1944. First Edition. Letter. Laurence A246 for the printed book. This collection, all housed in a green cloth chemise within a half green morocco slipcase gilt-lettered on the spine and front cover, consists of seven items related to the book: a single page.....
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Bound in brown gilt-decorated publisher's leather. A Limited Edition of "The Devil's Disciple," "Man and Superman," "Pygmalion," and "Saint Joan." Part of The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century series and a relatively uncommon title for this publisher.
Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Unauthorized, as was the 1896 Roycoft edition, of Shaw's first work published in America. Laurence A26c.
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Laurence A149b: published a week earlier in America. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half title page "To Henriette & Augustin Hamon/from Bernard Shaw./10th Oct. 1919." The Hamons were French socialists and the translators of Shaw's.....
(Dublin): (Cahill & Co.), Spring 1946. First Edition. wraps. Printed stapled wraps (8-1/2" x 11"); 8 pages. Laurence C2961.
New York: Brentano's, (1924) [1925]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed yellow wrappers. First Separate Edition, with material not in previous editions. Laurence A174a. Issued by the Department of Christian Social Service of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
London: The Fabian Society, January 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wrappers, 12 pages. Fabian Tract No. 226. Laurence A191a.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Early printing of Shaw's third novel, first published in 1900 though written much earlier.
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1919. First Edition. wraps. Original green printed wraps over stiff paper; 108 pages; followed by 2 pages of ads. Laurence A148.
London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1909. First Edition. wraps. Original pink wraps. Laurence A97a: the third impression of 1500 copies with imprint on upper wrapper reading "Price One Shilling net."
London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1909. First Edition. wraps. Original pink wraps. Laurence A97a: the first impression of only 500 copies, this being one of the 400 sent to the Royal Court Theatre for sale at the private performances. Imprint on upper wrapper reads "Price One Shilling."
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in buckram-backed pictorial boardsand printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Alan Strachan. Copy #955 of 2000 with 8 plates in color and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Clarke Hutton. SIGNED by the illustrator on the.....
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in buckram-backed pictorial boards and printed at the Stinehour Press. Introduction by Alan Strachan. Copy #887 of 2000 with 8 plates in color and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Clarke Hutton and SIGNED by the illustrator.....