Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, 2 vols
by Shaw, George Bernard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo. v.1 - xxxi + 244 pp, The First Volume, Plays Unpleasant. v. 2 - xx + 339 pp, The Second Volume, Plays Pleasant. Both vols have parts of a continuous preface by GBS. 5" x 7.9" dark blue cloth, with paper author/title labels laid on spine. Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, and well-preserved; cover cloth Near Fine or better, labels a bit faded, dingy. v1 with faint tiny scuff but clean, both volumes with unopened signatures. .
Synopsis
One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008074
- Title
- Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, 2 vols
- Author
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Herbert S. Stone and Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist, b. 1856 d, 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE; DRAMA;
- Size
- Small Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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