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Shaw Bernard
Saint Joan A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
Harmondsworth Middlesex England: Penguin Books. Good; Sunned spine with some loss at base heavy edge and shelf wear . original owner name and date to half title. ; Original orange Penguin 565 . specially published to commemorate and issued on the authors 90th . birthday July 26th 1946. Good reading copy. 1946. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 192 pages; Shaw's play first performed in New York in 1923 and in London the following year based on the life of Joan of Arc. . Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 20181
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Shaw Bernard
Saint Joan
Penguin Books 1954. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good . No markings or inscriptions. Text clean and bright. Tanning of spine and page edges. <br/><br/> Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 13371
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Shaw Bernard
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
New York: Brentano's 1924. Very Good /No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". Second Printing Green cloth covers are bumped on top/bottom of spine and corners. Bookplate on front endpaper. Rough cut pages. Brentano's hardcover
Bookseller reference : F17331
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Shaw Bernard
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue
New York New York USA: Dodd Mead & Co 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Type: Hardback Fifteenth Printing of this classic play by the renowned playwright author public speaker reformer free thinker Bernard Shaw. Extensive Preface by Ayot St. Lawrence. Hardcover Book In Good Condition. Navy cloth binding with paper title & author panel affixed to upper spine blue lettering. This panel is intact with a crease down through it lettering a little rubbed but quite visible. Clean and tight book. Rubbing of board edges and along spine hinge; light wear to corners and spine ends. Stamp crossed out and former owner name both on paste-down. Rough cut. Interior clean and unmarked toned. lxxxiv plus 163 pages. 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Dodd Mead & Co New York 1939. Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008542
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SHAW Bernard.
Saint Joan. A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue.
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz1924. Copyright edition. Collection of British authors Tauchnitz Edition. Vol.4657. 15.5cms x 12cms. Pp.254 owners names to fep and half-title page a few minor underlings and marginal marks. Maroon ribbed cloth motif to front decoration and gilt title to spine. VG. . Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz,1924. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1470
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Shaw Bernard
Saint Joan A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
Harmondsworth Middlesex England: Penguin Books. Very Good; Slightly sunned spine with some edge wear. ; Nice original . orange Penguin 565 specially published to commemorate and issued on the . authors 90th birthday July 26th 1946. 1946. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 189 pages; Shaw's play first performed in New York in 1923 and in London the following year based on the life of Joan of Arc. . Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 5326
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Shaw Bernard
Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1948. Very Good/No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". Crease to front endpape as well as corner of first several pages. Cracked hinges to front. Some soiling to edges and front cover. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown
Bookseller reference : F25925
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Shaw Bernard
Seven Plays
New York: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvi 911 pp . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19210
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SHAW BERNARD
Seven Plays: With Prefaces And Notes
Dodd Mead & Company New York: 1951. Hardcover no dustjacket. Good condition. Includes: Mrs. Warren's Profession Caesar and Cleopatra The Devil's Disciple Candida Saint Joan Arms and the Man and Man and Superman. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York: 1951 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 48201X1
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Shaw Bernard
The Apple Cart A Political Extravaganza
London: Penguin Books. Fair. 1967. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases some shelf and edge wear ink name to inside front cover. Ink blots to front cover inside front cover and endpapers as well as fore edge of reading block small open tear to rear endpaper. ; Penguin PL8 fourth printing 1967. Reading copy only. Cover design uncredited. ; 128 pages; A satirical comedy about political philosophies which are expounded by the characters often in lengthy monologues. Shaw described the play as: "a comedy in which a King defeats an attempt by his popularly elected Prime Minister to deprive him of the right to influence public opinion through the press and the platform: in short to reduce him to a cipher. The King's reply is that rather than be a cipher he will abandon his throne and take his obviously very rosy chance of becoming a popularly elected Prime Minister himself." . Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 30224
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Shaw Bernard
The Apple Cart
London: Constable 1930. 78 pp. End-papers lightly toned. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Constable Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8996
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Shaw Bernard
The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales
London: Penguin 1946. Clean bright unmarked copy. One of 10 titles published by Penguin to commemorate Shaw's 90th birthday. 285pp. Penguin No 567. A book of short stories with the title story concerning a black girl's attempts to find and speak to God after being converted by missionaries. Paper Back. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Penguin unknown
Bookseller reference : 031213
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Shaw Bernard
The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw
London: Odhams Press Limited 1111. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Edition Not Stated. 240mm Tall; 8vo. General shelfwear to covers. This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Odhams Press Limited Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003960
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Shaw Bernard
The Doctor's Dilemma Getting Married and the Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
New York: Brentano's 1931. 442 pp. Dw chipped. . Reprint. Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Brentano's Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8828
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Shaw Bernard
The Doctor's Dilemma
Baltimore Maryland: Pernguin Books 1954. Mass market paperback. 192pp. This reprint edition first published 1954. Contains the 1911 88 page introduction by Shaw with poscripts dated 1930 and 1933. A tragedy written in response to the current state of health care in Great Britain circa 1911. A sardonic and pointed diatribe against the unregulated private practice of medicine and its odiuos consequences for public health. Though largely overhadowed by more famous prose and theatric works penned by Shaw the play has some resonance in light of contemporary debate surronding "national health policy'. No previous ownership marks. A clean square sound copy. Very good. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Pernguin Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 007342
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Shaw Bernard
The Doctor's Dilemma Definitive Text
Penguin 1974. Book. Very Good . Mass Market Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are bright and clean NO tears. Tight spine clean pages. NO tears inside book. ONLY writing inside book is previous owner's signature and address in book front. "Definitive Edition". 192 pages. Penguin Paperback
Bookseller reference : 039653 ISBN : 0140480013 9780140480016
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SHAW Bernard
The Philanderer: a facsimile of the Holograph Manuscript Early Texts: Play Manuscripts in Facsimile series
Garland 1981 . hbk 4to 457pp ISBN 0824045769 no dj as issued fine maroon boards with bright gilt lettering almost as new Garland, 1981, hardcover
Bookseller reference : SBL458-UH ISBN : 0824045769 9780824045760
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SHAW BERNARD
The Works Of Bernard Shaw - Volume 10: Man And Superman
Constable and Company London: 1930. Hardcover no dustjacket. Very good condition. Includes The REVOLUTIONIST'S HANDBOOK as well as an introductory letter from the author to Arthur Bingham Walkley. Constable and Company, London: 1930 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 87989X1
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Shaw Bernard
Three Plays For Puritans
Harmondsworth Middlesex England: Penguin Books. Very Good-. 1952. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading and cover creases some edge and shelf wear with tiny split to top of spine paper lightly edge toned. ; Orange Penguin 562. Third printing 1952. Nice tight copy no names inside. ; 352 pages; Collection of three plays comprising: TheDevil's Disciple Caesar and Cleopatra and Captain Brassbound's Conversion. . Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 29828
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Shaw Bernard
Three Plays for Puritans
New York: Brentano's 1931. Very Good /No DJ. 12mo = 7-9". Head and heel of spine as well as lower corners are bumped. Pages only lightly toned and hinges are secure. Previous owner's name in ink on inside of front cover. Brentano's unknown
Bookseller reference : F6712
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Shaw Bernard
THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS: BEING THE THIRD VOLUME OF HIS COLLECTED PLAYS
Chicago IL: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1904. HC. good dark blue cloth hardcover small tear bottom of spine. Contents include: The Devil's Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra; Captain Brasshound's Conversion. 315pp. Herbert S. Stone and Company unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS039272I
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Shaw Bernard George Bernard Shaw
Too True to be Good Village Wooing & On The Rocks. Three Plays
London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1934. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Includes a lengthy Preface by the author 274 pages . 1st Edition. Hardback. Constable and Company Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : BIB309087
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Shaw Dale
Titans of the American Stage: Edwin Forrest the Booths the O'Neills
Philadelphia: Westminster Press 1971 Dust jacket is covered with mylar. Binding tight and secure. Text clean and free of markings. We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes not envelopes. A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9 x 6.5. Westminster Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 204979 ISBN : 0664325017 9780664325015
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Shaw G. Bernard
HEARTBREAK HOUSE. A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
Penguin paperback stiff pictorial card Definitive Text 1988 160 pages. Minor wear good copy. ISBN 0140450173. paperback
Bookseller reference : 7453 ISBN : 0140450173 9780140450170
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SHAW George Bernard
Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan Major Barbara Androcles and the Lion
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 479pp 9pp ads. Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight attractive later printing undated but ca. 1962 of #294 first published in this form in 1956. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40273
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Shaw George Bernard
Caesar and Cleopatra
New York: Penguin Books 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good-. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Penguin Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 042035 ISBN : 0140481001 9780140481006
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Shaw George Bernard
Caesar and Cleopatra : A History
New York: Penguin Books PL-1. Good 1962. Softcover. Tanned acidfree good early ed; 2 u-lines not o/w marked-in clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours. ; 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.4 inches; 144 pages; The complete five-act version of Caesar and Cleopatra for performance and study includes both prologues and the author's own stage directions and explanatory notes. Elizabeth T. Forter's introduction focuses on Shaw's calculated and integral development of the plot juxtaposition of characters and use of dramatic devices to convey the play's central theme the measure of the truly heroic. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Bernard Shaw and a selected bibliography. Available in the U. S. Only. . Penguin Books PL-1 paperback
Bookseller reference : 16175 ISBN : 014045036X 9780140450361
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Shaw George Bernard
Candida
Baltimore MD: Penguin Group USA PL7. Good 1974. Softcover. Tite acidfree fresh prtg as shown; 8 margin notes not o/w marked-in clearance or discard. Usually mails within 12 hours. ; Bernard Shaw Library Series; 4.5 x 7"; 75 pages . Penguin Group (USA) PL7 paperback
Bookseller reference : 16619 ISBN : 0140450378 9780140450378
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SHAW George Bernard
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw: Candida Caesar and Cleopatra Pygmalion Heartbreak House
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. xii 473pp 8pp ads. Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn. Tight and quite nice later undated but ca. 1957 printing of #19 first published in this form in 1953. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40243
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SHAW George Bernard
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw: Candida Caesar and Cleopatra Pygmalion Heartbreak House
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii 473pp 10pp ads. Tan patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and edgeworn with chip at tail of spine and a few other tiny edge chips. A tight and attractive later ca. mid-1960s printing of #19 first published in this form in 1953. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39457
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Shaw George Bernard
HEARTBREAK HOUSE GREAT CATHERINE AND PLAYLETS OF THE WAR
New York: Brentano's. Good with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardbound. 295 pages . Brentano's hardcover
Bookseller reference : 67519
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Shaw George Bernard
HEARTBREAK HOUSE GREAT CATHERINE AND PLAYLETS OF THE WAR
New York: Brentano's. Good with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardbound. 293 pages . Brentano's hardcover
Bookseller reference : 67517
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Shaw George Bernard
MAJOR BARBARA
Baltimore Maryland: Penguin. 1960. Reprint. Paperback. 0140437908 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; 153 pages . Penguin paperback
Bookseller reference : 33139 ISBN : 0140437908 9780140437904
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Shaw George Bernard
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1990. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over light tan boards red embossed illustration of a man Shaw on front cover gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Illustrated with color drawings by Charles Mozley. The Revolutionist's Handbook is bound in at rear. "Man and Superman" is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the "Don Juan" theme. "Man and Superman" opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905 but omitted the third act. A part of the act Don Juan in Hell Act 3 Scene 2 was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915 when the Travelling Repertory Company played it at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. . The volume is in perfect pristine condition unmarked tight square and clean. The slipcase is in fine condition. AS NEW. . Color drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. xxxiv 138 34 pp . The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22844
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Shaw George Bernard
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
London: Longmans Green and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Full green cloth beige lettering on spine beige decoration on front and rear covers green lettering on beige panel on front cover. "Man and Superman" is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the "Don Juan" theme. "Man and Superman" opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905 but omitted the third act. A part of the act Don Juan in Hell Act 3 Scene 2 was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915 when the Travelling Repertory Company played it at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. . Boards and spine show mild rubbing and shelf-wear else near fine. VERY GOOD . 12mo 7" - 7�" tall. v 248 pp . Longmans, Green and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13067
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Shaw George Bernard
Misalliance with a Treatise on Parents and Children
London: Constable & Company Ltd 1928. Published by Constable in 1928. No dustwrapper minor bumping to spine ends and corners of greenish-yellow cloth-covered boards original owner's name and date Christmas 1929 on f/ep otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. One of the author's lesser-known plays with a lengthy preface. 119pp preface and 99pp play. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Constable & Company Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007870
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Shaw George Bernard
Misalliance The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Fanny's First Play with A Treatise on Parents and Children
Brentano's. Brentano's. unknown
Bookseller reference : 15505
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Shaw George Bernard
Misalliance
New York New York: Samuel French Inc Plays. Fine. 1957. Softcover. 0573619557 . 218 pages. Yellow wraps. Tight clean and crisp. A very faint hint of shelf wear to wraps otherwise the book appears unread and looks New.; 12mo. . Samuel French Inc Plays paperback
Bookseller reference : 05490 ISBN : 0573619557 9780573619557
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Shaw George Bernard; Stephen Winsten Editorial Note
My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of Moral Education for Females Embodied in a Letter to a Young Person of that Sex
New York: The Vanguard Press 1956 First printing of first edition review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Faint age-toning to page margins spine ends slightly rubbed else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light age-toning to spine and jacket margins a short closed tear to upper back fold a couple tiny chips to crown of spine else fine. The Vanguard Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001305
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Shaw George Bernard
Our Theatres in the Nineties. 3 volumes.
London Constable 1932 hardcover. Revised 1932 for this standard edition reprinted 1948. Hardcover three volume set. Good used condition spines are worn at tips and lightly sunned; owner gift note. Pages are clean and bindings are tight. Constable hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35704
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Shaw George Bernard
Playbill Longacre Theatre April 1970 "Candida
New York: American Theatre Press Inc. 1970. Early Edition . Wrappers. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 9" High. Candida" staring Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy. Premiere Performance April 6 1970. 48 clean unmarked pages. <br/> <br/> American Theatre Press, Inc. unknown
Bookseller reference : 004632
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SHAW GEORGE BERNARD; BENTLEY ERIC FOREWORD
Plays By Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren's Profession Arms And The Man Candida & Man And Superman
New American Library New York: 1964. Softcover. Good condition. Geroge Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness -- sugar-coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In these plays the great playwright satirizes accepted attitudes toward: woman's place in society military heroism marriage the pursuit of man by woman. New American Library, New York: 1964 paperback
Bookseller reference : 87491X1
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Shaw George Bernard
PLAYS PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT.
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo blue cloth paper labels on spine darkened untrimmed <br/><br/>The first publication of Shaw's plays in America. Vol. 1 includes "Widower's Houses" "Shaw's first play and the only one previously printed - Kramer no. 151" "One must remark that it was from Chicago that Shaw conquered America - Kramer p.98." In fact Stone & Co. were the agents for the production of his plays in America. Herbert S. Stone and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0008565
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Shaw George Bernard
Plays Unpleasant
London: Penguin 1957. Previous owner's initials & date inside front cover. Pages tanned with age. Otherwise a very good clean paperback. 288 pages. Prompt dispatch. Reprint. Paper Back. Very Good. Penguin paperback
Bookseller reference : 065308
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Shaw George Bernard
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
New York: Brentano's 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. lxxxiviii 2 163 p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with paper spine label printed in green. No dust jacket. First American edition. In Very Good Condition: covers are slightly discolored; light staining of spine label; offsetting onto endpapers; pages are clean and tight. <br/><br/> Brentano's hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000218
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Shaw George Bernard
The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza
London: Constable and Company 1930. First Edition First Printing. A comedy about royalists and democrats and featuring a lengthy preface by Shaw explaining the background to the play. He then veers off into a discussion of the current political scene in Britain. 12mo. xxix 78 pages. A Very Good copy with numerous pages unopened in a Very Good dust jacket that has a darkened spine a light pencil note to the front flap one small tape repair to the verso and one minuscule tear to top edge of front panel. <br/><br/> Constable and Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 806
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Shaw George Bernard
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
London: Constable and Company Publishers. Fine in Fair dust jacket 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good /acceptable DJ sunned chipped & tattered no spine section; not written-in underlined highlighted clearance or discard. Original mustard coloured cloth- clean & undented title lettered in gilt on spine lite initial on front endpaper. Usually mails within 12 hours. Bernard Shaw was one of the greatest playwrites who ever lived. This First Printing NAP of one of his classic plays would make a fine addition to the library of any drama student or fan. It is a hardcover book in Good Condition. ; 5x8 Inches; 78 pages . Constable and Company, Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7579 ISBN : 0140450262 9780140450262
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Shaw George Bernard
The Art of Rehearsal
New York: Samuel French 1928. First Edition Thus. 16mo 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches 90 x 160 mm 14 2 pages in original stapled blue wrappers printed in green and black. Fore edge of front wrapper with deckled edge other edges trimmed. Some light handling wear. A Near Fine copy. Shaw's letter to an Irish friend who sought advice on stage techniques for the theatre. The letter had been published in Collier's Weekly in 1922 with the title Make Them Do Well. The publisher of this volume Samuel French reprinted the letter in 1928 but with a different title: The Art of Rehearsal. Laid in is an old bookmark of New York antiquarian booksellers James F. Drake. First edition points present. Subsequent editions contained advertisements for later works by Shaw including The Apple Cart in the 2nd edition and Too True to Be Good in the 3rd edition Dan H. Laurence Bernard Shaw A Bibliography Clarendon Press Oxford 1983. A188. The first printing of this pamphlet is scarce to the market. <br/><br/> Samuel French unknown
Bookseller reference : 1379
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Shaw George Bernard
The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw
London: Odhams 1934. 1st. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 1219pp bound in black cloth with embossed bust to front board and spine. Hinges a little loose foxing to end papers. A heavy book. Odhams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000433
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Shaw George Bernard
THE DOCOR'S DILEMMA GETTING MARRIED AND THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET
New York: Brentano's. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. Hardbound. 443 pages . Brentano's hardcover
Bookseller reference : 67515
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