Shaw Bernard Subject (11 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1963; New York; red cloth covered boards; dust jacket is in plastic wrapper and adhered to the boards; moderate wear; front hinge is split; stains on the fore edge; interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 300 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear with minor rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows minor rubbing, scuffing. Presented with clear mylar ARCHIVAL book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. NY (1963) January 1963 Hardcover with jacket. Some foxing to jacket. Old prices in pencil on front fly leaf. Tight binding.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A few bumps along edges of boards, minor spotting to boards, several tears and some chipping to dust jacket, light wear to pages. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Frayed. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Later Edition. END SHEET CLIPPED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Chipped and Frayed. 1st Edition. DJ, SPINE EDGES SLIGHTLY SUNNED, RUBBED. INSIDE, JEAN COCTEAU, CLAIR RENE, BETTE DAVIS, MGM, NOEL COWARD, ALFRED HITCHCOCK, ARTHUR MILLER,100'S MORE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: FRAYED & CHIPPED ( GOOD). 1st Edition. GABRIEL PASCAL, VIVIEN LEIGH, BOOK, SLIGHTLY BUMPPED CORNERS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3 volumes ; illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394525779 ((v. 1)); 9780394525778 ((v. 1)); 0394575539 ((v. 2)); 9780394575537 ((v. 2)); 0394575547 ((v. 3)); 9780394575544 ((v. 3)); 067941987X ; LC: PR5366; Dewey: 822/.912; B; NLC: PR5366; NLM: B S534ho ; OCLC: 213536853 ; black and grey, black and purple, black and tan cloth in photographic dustjackets ; "To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap." ; v. 1. 1856-1898, the search for love -- v. 2. 1898-1918, the pursuit of power -- v. 3. 1918-1950, the lure of fantasy ; "When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898. At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas. Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon." ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Full Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. FIRST AMER. EDITION, first printing. This is volume IV of the "Plays of Oscar Wilde" series. Full purple cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. Light wear to the top & bottom of the spine. Price sticker removal abrasion to the front free endpaper. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in EXCELLENT condition. A good gift. A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality, Simone challenges the interloper to a duel, disarms, and strangles him. This awakens the affection of his wife, and two are reconciled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Vintage studio still photograph of designer and photographer Cecil Beaton standing next to his costume design illustration for the 1964 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Beaton won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film, and, alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins, won an Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly creased. Ebert III.…