Descrizione

12 vols., sm. 8vo., Mixed Editions; original dark blue limp calf, upper boards with author's signature in gilt, backs gilt extra, gilt tops, navy blue silk markers, a very good, clean set housed in publisher's drop-front card box, top flap with author's signature in gilt top, interior fully lined in navy blue cloth, a near fine set. The twelve volumes are those of the Pocket Edition. The set comprises: I: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion (second impression, 1927); Vol. II: Back to Methuselah (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. III: Saint Joan, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (second impression, 1927); Vol. IV: Translations and Tomfooleries (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. V: Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VI: Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VII: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. VIII: John Bull's Other Island, How He Lied to Her Husband, Major Barbara (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. IX: Man and Superman (first edition thus, 1926); Vol. X: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren's Profession (first edition, 1926); Vol. XI: Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War (second impression, 1927); Vol. XII: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married (second impression, 1927). Very scarce in this condition.