George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and short story writer. A Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Award winner, he wrote primarily in the genres of satire and black comedy. The majority of his works contain prevalent social issues of the time all laced with comedy. His more famous plays are Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), You Never Can Tell (1897), and Pygmalion (1912). Pygmalion was filmed twice and Shaw won the Academy Award for best screenplay for the 1938 version. Its second adaptation was the musical My Fair Lady.
London: Constable & Co, [1934]. First edition. Inscribed to John Drinkwater. Inscribed on the half-title: "to John Drinkwater/ G.B. Shaw / his Forerunner. 26th July 1934." Beneath the inscription Drinkwater was written in pencil, "Malvern Festival. JD." Fine association. Read More about Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks
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London: Bertram Rota, 1971. First edition, No. 45 of 350 copies. Printed at the Windhover Press in Romanée & Cancelleresca types in black, red, blue and gray on Umbria paper. Read More about Passion Play. A Dramatic Fragment, 1878. John E. Bringle, Editor
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Boston: Charles F. Brown, (1894). First Authorized American Edition. Read More about Socialism. The Fabian Essays by G. Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier,...
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London: The Fabian Society, 63 Fleet Street and 180 Portsdown Road, 1889. First edition. Read More about Fabian Essays in Socialism
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New York: Brentano's, 1910. American Copyright edition. Read More about Preface to Three Plays by Brieux
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London: Fabian Society, 3 Clement's Inn, Strand, November, 1909. First edition. Read More about Socialism and Superior Brains. A Reply to Mr. Mallock
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London: The Fabian Society, Publishes January, 1929. First edition. Read More about Fabian Tract No. 226. The League of Nations
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[London: 1922]. First edition. Read More about The Arts League of Service Annual 1921-1922. "On the Art of Rehearsal "pp. 3-8
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London: The New Age Press, 1908. First State Binding. Read More about The Sanity of Art
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(np: 1920. First edition, First printing (with "asking": on the first line only, one of 100. Read More about Drop-title] Playwrights and Amateurs
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[London]: The Modern Press, 1886. First Separate Issue, smaller variant, measuring 23.5 x 14.9 cm. Originally printed in the April 1885-March 1886 issues of "To-Day", this first edition was printed from the corrected and revised stereos of the original setting for the journal. This is the smaller, variant issue measuring..... Read More about Cashel Byron's Profession. A Novel
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Flint, Michigan: Apple Tree Press, (1954). First edition, no. 10 of 50 copies on Large Paper. Read More about G. Bernard Shaw. Last Will and Testament. Foreword by William D. Chase
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np: 1933. First edition. Unrecorded Issue. Read More about The Political Madhouse in America and nearer Home. A Lecture. With an Explanation by Bernard Shaw
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New York: Brentano's, 1905. `. FirstAmerican Edition, Unauthorized. Read More about The Author's Apology from Mrs. Warren's Profession. With an Introduction by John Corbin
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London: The New Age Press, 1908. First editions. Three States of Binding. Read More about The Sanity of Art: an Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate
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London: Constable and Company, 1949. First edition. "First Complete Copy / Printers' binding ... " A UNIQUE copy, inscribed on the fly leaf by the printer, William Maxwell: "First Complete Copy / Printer's binding 10/12/48/ William Maxwell LL.D." Maxwell's copy is not lettered in gilt, and he has had bound..... Read More about Sixteen Self Sketches
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London: Constable & Co, 1911. First edition. Inscribed to the "Perfect Father Anthony" Inscribed on the half title "to James Hearn, the perfect Father Anthony, / from G. Bernard Shaw. / 23rd February 1911." And with a letter laid in from the daughter of the recipient, explaining that her father..... Read More about The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet
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London: Constable & Co, 1914. First edition. Inscribed to the Artist Muirhead Bone. Inscribed on the half title "from Bernard Shaw / to Muirhead Bone / 9th June 1920. / Muirhead Bone - to the Steep Memorial Village Club." Read More about Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and...
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London: Constable & Co, 1921. First English edition. Inscribed to Lillah McCarthy. Inscribed on the flyleaf to Lillah McCarthy, the prominent English actress of the 20's: "To Lillah / from G.B.S." Shaw was close personal and professional friend of McCarthy's and contributed a Foreword to her memoirs, MYSELF AND MY..... Read More about Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch
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London: Constable & Co, [1934]. First edition. Presentation Copy, Inscribed to the Printer One Week Before Publication. Inscribed on the half-title: "to William Maxwell / from Bernard Shaw / 8th Feb, 1934." Laurence gives the publication date as Feb 15, 1934, fully a week after this inscription. Read More about Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks
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London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1909. First editions, first through fourth printings. Read More about Press Cuttings: a Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the...
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London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1887. First edition, fourth issue, with cancel title and publisher's name on spine incorrectly spelled, "Sonnenshein," no appendix at back. First edition of Shaw's scarce early novel, one of only 244 copies bound in cloth. Read More about An Unsocial Socialist
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Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1901. First American Revised and Authorized edition. Read More about Cashel Byron's Profession. Newly Revised with several Prefaces and an Esaay on Prizefighting....
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London: Constable, 1926. First Edition. Read More about Translations and Tomfooleries
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