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The Works of Bernard Shaw.
London: Constable & Co., 1930-1938. 33 volumes, 8vo (230 x 150 mm). [ With]: SHAW, George Bernard. Prefaces by Bernard Shaw. London: Constable and Company Limited, [1934]. Large 8vo. Together 34 volumes. First Collected Edition (first edition of Prefaces ). One of 1,000 numbered copies out of a total edition of 1,025, this being 404. Modern half green levant morocco over cloth boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Condition: light bumping to some page edges. the first and best collected edition of shaw’s works including the author’s prefaces and early novel. Volume I is the first publication of Shaw’s first novel, Immaturity, written in 1879. Laurence A198a.