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30 volumes complete, limited to 1790 sets, this being # 233. Published between 1930 and 1932. I: Immaturity; xlviii, 438 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. II: The Irrational Knot; xxii, 352 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. III: Love Among the Artists; 353 pages; frontportrait [1930]. IV: Cashel Byron's Profession; xx, 244 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. V: An Unsocial Socialist; x, 270 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. VI: Short Stories, Scraps & Shavings; vii, 229 pages; frontportrait [1932]. VII: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, The First Volume Containing The Three Unpleasant Plays; xxvii, 253 pages; frontportrait [1930]. VIII: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, The Second Containing The Four Pleasant Plays; xxi, 305 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1931]. IX: Three Plays for Puritans, The Devel's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion; xl, 306 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. X: Man and Superman; xl, 228 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. XI: John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara; 350 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XII: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet; xi, 464 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIII: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play; ix, 335 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIV: Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion; x, 303 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XV: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playets of the War; viii, 304 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XVI: Back to Methuselah; xc, 262 pages; frontportrait, illustration [1930]. XVII: Saint Joan, The Apple Cart; viii, 277 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XVIII: Translations and Tomfooleries; vii, 238 pages; frontportrait [1930]. XIX: The Quintessence of Ibsenism, The Perfect Wagnerite, The Sanity of Art; viii, 346 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XX: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism; xliii, 563 pages; frontportrait; index [1931]. XXI: What I really Wrote About the War; xxi, 434 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXII: Doctor's Delusions, Crude Criminology, Sham Education; xiv, 387 pages; frontportrait [1932]. XXIII: Our Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review From January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume I; x, 302 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXIV: Our Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review from January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume II; 306 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXV: Out Theatres in the Nineties: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review from January 1895 to May 1898, in Three Volumes. Volume III; 440 pages; frontportrait, illustration; index to 3 volumes [1931]. XXVI: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume I; 317 pages, frontportrait [1931]. XXVII: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week to Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume II; 342 pages; frontportrait [1931]. XXVIII: Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the World, in Three Volumes. Volume III; 332 pages; frontportrait; index to 3 volumes [1931]. XXIX: Pen Portraits and Reviews; 321 pages; frontportrait; index [1932]. XXX: Essays in Fabian Socialism; ix, 340 pages; frontportrait; index. Uniformly bound in blue-gray boards with cloth spines, gilt top paging, gilt series title with volume number & contents on paper label on the spine. Mostly uncut pages, save several of the works and essays with introductions which have been opened. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was the leading playwright of his time along with being a major critic of music and the theatre. Also an author of various tracts and books on socialism. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1925. The 30 volume set includes all his writings through 1932. Also a wonderful series of portraits of Shaw over the decades. Seller Inventory # 9990
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