LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS
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.
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.....
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1913. Hardcover. Green cloth. Laurence A12c. Second Revised Edition of this first book on Ibsen in the English language. Includes some changes in the text as well as a new preface and some new chapters.
London: The New Age Press, 1908. First Edition. Wraps. Lawrence A86a. Secondary binding of printed brown wrappers with four colons on the front cover.
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 #834.....
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 #887.....
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): (Chatto & Windus), August 1956. First Edition. wraps. Printed orange wraps; 80 pages. Laurence C3943. In addition to Shaw's play, there is a section on Young American Poets introduced by Thom Gunn and containing poems by Donald Hall, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, James Wright, and others.
London: Constable & Company Limited, [1930-1938]. First Edition. Hardcover. Laurence A198a. The Best Edition of Shaw's Works, copy #740 of 1025 copies complete in 33 volumes in the original dustwrappers collecting his writings from his first novel-- IMMATURITY--to his famous plays--PYGMALION, MAJOR BARBARA, etc.--through and beyond his winning of the.....
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: Dulau & Co. Ltd., [1929]. First Edition. wraps. Small printed green wraps; 20 pages. Laurence B170. Limited to 500 copies.
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. A scarce book with a preface by Bernard Shaw published for the Humanitarian League, an organization founded by Henry Salt and dedicated to human and animal rights. This is a most unusual and important copy of this book INSCRIBED by.....
n.p. Privately Printed, 1932. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Laurence AA16d. This is one of five different states of the "ROUGH PROOF-UNPUBLISHED" of this play typically used as rehearsal or prompt copies. This particular state includes the coda written at Malvern, where the play premiered on 8 July 1932, for.....
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.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles.
London: Privately Printed, 1946. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Laurence B311. A twenty-page pamphlet limited to 500 copies printed for the author that includes three paragraphs by Shaw not previously published.
Rome: 6 April [1843]. Letter. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Mary Shelley" written in Italian on one sheet of an 8" x 5" piece of paper folded to 4" x 5," dated 6 April [1843]. A rough translation: "Esteemed Sir. Thank you so much for your card -- and your.....
London: Oxford University Press, (1967). Reprint. Hardcover. Beautifully bound by Lauriat of Boston in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and blue cloth with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. xxiii, 918 pages.