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.
[Kensington]: [The Favil Press], [1927]. First Edition. wraps. Printed white wraps; 44 pages. Laurence A184b. Contains three letters by Shaw as well as letters and articles by various anti-Fascists.
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.
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"
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.
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: 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."
London: A. C. Fifield, 1910. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fabian Socialists Series No. 8. Original cloth-backed boards, 59 pages. Laurence A102b. Frontispiece photograph of Shaw taken by the subject. The First Edition of 1909, Fabian Tract No. 146, consisted of only 24 pages in wraps and did not have the photograph.....
London: A. C. Fifield, 1910. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fabian Socialists Series No. 8. Original cloth-backed boards, 59 pages. Laurence A102b. Frontispiece photograph of Shaw taken by the subject. The First Edition of 1909, Fabian Tract No. 146, consisted of only 24 pages in wraps and did not have the photograph.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. George Him. Hardcover. Tall quarto (6-7/8" x 11-7/8") bound in red cloth decorated in black and gilt and printed at Sign of the Stone Book. The plays are "The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra" with a preface by George Bernard Shaw. Copy #1192.....
Photograph. Superb 8-7/8" x 10-7/8" original side profile photograph of an elderly and serious Shaw SIGNED by the photographer Howard Coster on the mat, which measures 11" x 14", further matted to an overall size of 16" x 20" with the photographer's stamp "Photographer of Men" on the verso of.....
London: Constable and Company Ltd., (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Laurence B158. Shaw contributes a 34-page introduction to this book by one of his closest friends and a helpful guide to many playwrights including Shaw, for whom he arranged his first salaried writing job. Bookplate of Henry Eastman Lower on the.....
London: Cecil Palmer and Hayward, n.d [1919]. First Edition. Decorated wraps. Original illustrated wrappers. Laurence B109. Shaw contributes a 6-page introduction to this 31-page pamphlet. Rear wrap with small hole and several tears including a long repaired tear.
London: B. F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd., [1930s]. wraps. Printed wraps. A four-page illustrated advertising leaflet offering original etchings by Edmund J. Sullivan of Shaw and John Galsworthy as well as one of Kipling and another of Shaw by William Strang.
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1910. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Laurence K6. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece of Shaw. Text in German.
Notre Dame & London: Univ. Of Notre Dame Press, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Laurence B403. Introduction by Cecil Lewis who directed Shaw's first attempt to convert a play into film.
Austin: University of Texas, 1977. First Edition. wraps. Pictorial wraps. An essential catalog for an exhibition on Shaw's life and work consisting of 765 items including manuscripts, letters, books, photographs, etc., with numerous illustrations.
New York: Gordon Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, (iv), 176 pages. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHAVIAN BIOGRAPHIES AND SOME PERSONAL WRITINGS BY SHAW TOGETHER WITH AN ADDITIONAL LISTING OF SELECTIVE SHAVIANA AND NOTES BY THE AUTHOR. The author's comments on the biographies are quite useful.