Collected Works by George Bernard Shaw (53 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.31.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.95.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG, light shelfwear.

Decorated hard cover. First edition thus. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new. 430 pps.

Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover. No jacket. Due to a printing error, many pages are not separated but rather remain attached to each other along an edge. Ayot St. Lawrence edition.

Condition: Good. Hardcover. No jacket. Some scuffing to boards. Uneven page edges, causing some damage to overhanging material. Numbered copy 1470 Ayot St. Lawrence Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited. 30 volumes complete. Limited edition, #662 of 1790 copies. Blue paper boards with beige linen spines, paper spine labels, all pretty nice, some tanning of the spine cloth, occassional light fray on the spine ends, some wear on the tips of the corners. All interiors clean and tight, pages a little toned, top edges gilt and clean. Definitive collection, uncommon. Price INCLUDES media mail shipping to US destinations. Contact us for shipping quote on international orders. Large set, 60 pounds, 40 inches of shelf.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ayot St. Lawrence Edition. Number 796 of 1790; 30 volumes of 30 issued serially. 8vo; beige linen over blue boards, paper spine label; partially unopened. Without paper dust jackets. Minor chips at edges of spine label on volume one; wear to leading lower corners vols. 29 & 30 with minor soil to leading edge vol. 29 and fading to front board vol. 30; 1" narrow vertical streak of soil or to paper label vol. 30, otherwise a pristine set.

The Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works, no. 1459 of 1790 copies. Thirty volumes. Publisher's quarter linen over blue paper covered boards, blue paper title labels, in blue paper dustwrappers. A fine set in fine dustwrappers.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Multiple portraits 000 (illustrator). This uncommon Ayot St. Lawrence limited edition of the Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw complete in thirty volumes, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author to the front of each work in the set. Limited edition, being number 1614 of 1790 sets as stated on the limitation page preceding the frontispiece of Volume I.With several monochrome plate illustrations across the 30 volumes, including a frontispiece portrait of George Bernard Shaw for each volume.Uncommonly encountered as a complete set thus.A small village in Hertfordshire, Ayot St. Lawrence is now best known as having been the home of George Bernard Shaw from 1906 up until his death in 1950, with the author's ashes being scattered there. This thirty-volume set is the Ayot St. Lawrence limited edition of the Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, critic, and political activist who received the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw was the most prominent pamphleteer of the gradualist Fabian Society, a British Socialist organisation which promoted gradual reform over revolutionary overthrow attempts. Despite these earlier views, he later also regularly and publicly expressed a number of contentious views, promoting eugenics, opposing vaccination, and eventually, declaring admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin's dictatorships. He is, as such, a truly complex and challenging author. Shaw worked within a range of literary genres, from contemporary satire to historical allegory, and authored in excess of sixty plays, including major works such as Pygmalion (1913), Saint Joan (1923), and Man or Superman (1902), all included within this set. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with the original paper wraps and paper spine labels. Externally, generally very smart with some age toning or discolouration of, and light rubbing to, the wraps. In some instances, rubbing has resulted in very fractional loss of the wraps. Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and the extremities, in the latter's case resulting in fractional loss of the paper wraps. A few minor handling marks or marginal stains across the set, including to the spine labels, some of which are slightly nicked. Tidemarks to the spine label of Volume IX. Dust has collected along the joints and around the fore edge for multiple volumes. One very light tidemark to the join between front pastedown and front free endpaper of Volume VIII. Internally, generally firmly bound with pages that are a trifle age toned however for the most part very bright and clean. Some minor closed tears and chips across the set, not impacting text. A touch of offsetting to some of the tissue guards. Several leaves remain uncut. Very Good Indeed. book.

COMPLETE IN 30 VOLUMES. THE AYOT ST. LAWRENCE EDITION, LIMITED TO 1790 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 795. PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE TO EACH VOLUME, TOP EDGE GILT, ORIGINAL QUARTER CREAM CLOTH OVER BLUE BOARDS, GILT SPINE LABELTO EACH VOLUME, OCTAVO. A NEAR FINE SET.

Frontispieces. 30 vols. 8vo. Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works , no. 199 of 1790 copies. Frontispieces. 30 vols. 8vo. Laurence A 198b Quarter linen and blue boards, blue paper title labels. Fine in fine dust jackets. With two bookplates, La Fayette Butler and David Bruce Colen (by Rockwell Kent) Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works , no. 199 of 1790 copies.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 430 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.97 inches. This item is printed on demand.

hardbacks. Octavo Still the definitive set of Shaw's works. Limited 1790 sets. Paper over cloth;paper labels. No dust jackets. This lovely set has some water staining on 5 volumes. On 4 of these it is very light and confined to minor discoloration on spines, covers, and endpapers. Vol. 27, however, has a stain invading top margins intermittently throughout and light warping of back cover and last 80 or so pages. It is still a very sound and useable set. Buyer will need to pay shipping. Top edges gilt, others uncut; most volumes unopened.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 430 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.97 inches. This item is printed on demand.