Plays And Playwrights from The Country Bookshop

Boston, Mass: Walter H. Baker Co., 1923. Play by Laurence Binyon, English poet, art scholar, and playwrite, in lovely edition. Blue cloth with wrap-around buckram spine, tipped-in title and author on spine and front cover in black letter type. Paper cover, cream with letter-press black border, decoration, and same type as on tipped-in bits on hard cover, with original… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's, 1904. Lovely ediition of Shaw's essays on the phenomenon of "Ibsenism" bound in dark green with a tipped in title/author paper on spine; this glued-on label is faded, scuffed, & slightly chiped away around edges, but is fully legible and seems to me at least to retain a dainy prettiness.Inside pages with deckled edges are clean… Read more about this item

London: George Bell And Sons, 1891. Handsome volume in cloth over boards with brown leather corners and wrap-around ribbed spine with gilt title & author. In VG condition, despite some rubbing on spine ribs, right top edge of front cover, and corners. Inside with lovely light brown and white marbleized endpapers, showing the slightest shadow around edges. Signed by former… Read more about this item

London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907. Copy with all illustrations by Beardsley, including the suppressed frontispiece (hermaphrodite genitalia!). Green binding with elaborate gilt design imprinted on cover and gilt on spine. Some rubbing and wear at all extremities,especially spine and top right hand front cover edge, but still very lovely and solid. Inside front and back… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1989. 4 Volumes in As New condition of complete biography of Shaw by Michael Holroyd, each with paper covers in As New condition with different photographs of Shaw and different colored bands along top edges. Inside endpapers also with different photographs. Very attractive set of this exhaustive biography, written over 15 years, and ppublished between… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1963. Slight discolorations or soil on covers.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Theatre Communications Group, 2001. Curl on bottom of back cover.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1968. Bumped and worn corners. Slight wear at extremities.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Methuen, 1982. Spotting, light soil on covers. Ink marks on front cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Series No. 4.

London: Methuen, 1990. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1968. Slight discolorations and wear around edges.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pamphlet 162.

Boston: The Baker International Play Bureau, 1925. Slight wear at extremties. Jacket is darkened, creased and chipped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Santa Cruz, CA: Jazz Press / Papa Bach Editions, 1981. Inscribed by the author on the title page (front end paper), "Somewherre on the road to Eagle Bay ... for Andy Doe from his faithful servant George H. Hitchcock". Discolorations and soil on covers.. Inscribed By Author. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1887. 3/8th inch scratch on front cover. Worn at all extremities. Corners bumped. Browning of flyleaf. Name, place and date on flyleaf. Stamp of ownership inside front cover.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1980. Near very good. Light soil. Crease at bottom corner of front cover.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: American National Theatre and Academy, 1950. Foxing inside front cover. Foxing on back cover. Occasional foxing on other pages. Soil on back cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. Soil along bottom edge of front cover. Slight soil along top edge of front cover. Scratches on surface of front cover.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Pollet, 1832. Comedie-Vaudeville en un acte. Wear and chipping at extremities. Buped and worn corners. Rubbed and worn on covers. Cracked at hinges. Foxing front and back pages. Name inside front cover.. Hard Cover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

New York: Random House, 1971. Glue discolorations inside covers. Darkening around edges of jacket and on spine of jacket. Soil on jacket. 1/4th inch chipping at bottom of spine of jacket. 1/2 inch hole in spine of jacket.. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1916. Otherwise known as Peter Schlemiehl when he wrote for Simplicissimus. Bumped and worn corners. Lightly soiled. Scratchings or rubbings on the spine where the surface lightens.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.