30V Bernard Shaw THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BERNARD SHAW 1930-1932 Limited Edition Complete Set Ayot St Lawrence Edition Tissue-Guarded Frontispiece Portraits Gilt Lettering Top-Edge Gilt Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw Socialist Political Activist Plays Drama Fiction Letters Criminology Music Ibsenism Capitalism Art Theatre Pleasant and Unpleasant Plays

Title: The Collected Works of Bernard Shaw
Author: Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise and Company
City: New York
Year: 1930-1932
Printing Information: Limited Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 30 Full Set: Yes
Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Book Details: This complete antique set is bound in tan cloth-backed boards and gray paper-covered boards. Each volume has a gilt-lettered cloth spine label and a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. This is a scarce limited edition, copy number 382 of 1750 numbered sets.

The Ayot St. Lawrence Edition is the first collected edition of Bernard Shaw. It contains all of Shaw's novels, plays, prefaces, short stories, and essays, and virtually all of his pamphlets, criticisms, and miscellaneous writings. He has eliminated only those items which involve duplication of topic or treatment. The edition has been completely revised, corrected, and supplemented by the author.

Contents: 1. Immaturity.--2. The Irrational Knot.--3. Love Among the Artists.--4. Cashel Byron's Profession.--5. An Unsocial Socialist.--6. Short Stories: Scraps and Shavings.--7. Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant; the first volume containing the three Unpleasant Plays.--8. Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant; the second volume containing the four Pleasant Plays.--9. Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple. Caesar and Cleopatra. Captain Brassbound's Conversion.--10. Man and Superman.--11. John Bull's Other Island. How He Lied to Her Husband. Major Barbara.--12. The Doctor's Dilemma. Getting Married. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet.--13. Misalliance. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Fanny's First Play.--14. Androcles and the Lion. Overruled. Pygmalion.--15. Heartbreak House. Great Catherine. Playlets of the War.--16. Back to Methuselah.--17. Saint Joan. The Apple Cart.--18. Translations and Tomfooleries.--19. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. The Perfect Wagnerite. The Sanity of Art.--20. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.--21. What I Really Wrote About the War.--22. Doctor's Delusions. Crude Criminology. Sham Education.--23.-25. Our Theatres in the Nineties; Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to the Saturday Review from January 1895 to May 1898.--26.-28. Music in London, 1890-94; Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World.--29. Pen Portraits and Reviews.--30. Essays in Fabian Socialism.
Condition / Notes: This handsome set shows well, with some typical indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. Some volumes display markings/soiling to the foot of the spine, and there is wear/chipping at the head of the spines to a small number of books. Bindings and text blocks are sound. The interiors are clean and without markings. Each volume bears some glue/paper residue to the front free endpaper.

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