1930-2 The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw

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Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A collection of the works of Bernard Shaw.

Complete in thirty volumes.

Bound in the publisher's quarter cloth, with the very scarce, original unclipped dust wrappers present to all volumes apart from XXVII.

An excellent example of this limited edition set, this copy being No. 1150 out of 1790 sets printed. The Ayot St. Lawrence edition, named after the town in Hertfordshire where Shaw resided. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.

A comprehensive collection of the novels, plays, essays and miscellaneous writings of Irish author, George Bernard Shaw. Shaw was a prolific writer, known for his strong influence on Western theatre, culture and politics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 for his important contributions, with his influence extending well beyond his death.

This collection is comprised of:
I. Immaturity.
II. The Irrational Knot.
III. Love Among the Artists.
IV. Cashel Byron's Profession.
V. An Unsocial Socialist.
VI. Short Stories.
VII. and VIII. Pleasant and Unpleasant Plays.
IX. Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra; Captain Brassbound's Conversion.
X. Man and Superman.
XI. John Bull's Other Island; How He Lied to Her Husband; Major Barbara.
XII. The Doctor's Dilemma; Getting Married; The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet.
XIII. Misalliance; The Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Fanny's First Play.
XIV. Androcles and the Lion; Overruled; Pygmalion.
XV. Heartbreak House; Great Catherine; Playlets of the War.
XVI. Back to Methuselah.
XVII. Saint Joan; The Apple Cart.
XVIII. Translations and Tomfooleries.
XIX. The Quintessence of Ibsenism; The Perfect Wagnerite; The Sanity of Art.
XX. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.
XXI. What I Really Wrote About the War.
XXII. Doctor's Delusions; Crude Criminology; Sham Education.
XXIII, XXIV and XXV. Our Theatres in the Nineties. Major Critical Essays.
XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII. Music In London. Major Critical Essays.
XXIX. Pen Portraits and Reviews.
XXX. Essays in Fabian Socialism.