[Shaw began writing novels in London in 1879 - Immaturity (1879)
, The Irrational Knot (1880)
,
Love Among the Artists (1881)
, Cashel Byron's Profession (1882)
, An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
.
Having been rejected by publishers they appeared in socialist periodicals like
"To-Day" and "Our Corner"]
1884-1890
A Manifesto (1884 Fabian Society Tract No 2)
To Provident Landlords and Capitalists (1885 FS Tract No 3)
- Anon
Cashel Byron's Profession : A Novel (1886 Walter Scott)
(1886 the Modern Press)
Offered in 1998 for £625 & in 1999 for £1090
(1900 Brentano's NY)
- [pirate Edition]
(1901 Herbert S Stone, Chicago)
An Unsocial Socialist (1887 Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co)
(1900 Brentano's, London - 1st unauthorised US ed)
The True Radical Programme (1887 FS Tract No 6)
(Ed)
Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889 Fabian Society)
- frontis Walter Crane
Anarchism versus State Socialism (1889 Henry Seymour)
What Socialism Is (1890 FS Tract No 13)
- anon
1891-1895
The Legal Eight Hours Question (1891 R Forder)
The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891 Walter Scott)
- 2100
Fabian Election Manifesto (1892 FS Tract No 41)
- Anon
The Fabian Society : What it has Done, etc (1892 FS Tract No 41)
Vote ! Vote ! Vote ! (1892 FS Tract No 42)
Widower's Houses (1892 Henry & Co)
- in two bindings, green & blue cloth
The Impossibilities of Anarchism (1893 FS Tract No 45)
A Plan of Campaign for Labour (1894 FS Tract No 49)
1896-1900
Report on Fabian Policy (1896 FS Tract No 70)
- anon
On Going to Church (1896 Roycraft Printing Shop, NY)
The Perfect Wagnerite (1898 Grant Richards)
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898 Grant Richards)
- 2 vols
1240 sets. Inscribed set offered in 1998 for £780
The Man of Destiny (1898)
Women as Councillors (1900 FS Tract No 93)
Love Among the Artists (1900 Stone, Chicago)
Fabianism and the Empire (1900 Grant Richards)
1901-1905
Socialism for Millionaires (1901 FS Tract No 107)
Three Plays for Puritans (1901)
The Admirable Bashville (1901)
Man and Superman (1903 Constable)
Commonsense of Municipal Trading (1904 Constable)
(1908 Fabian Tract No 5)
Election Address (1904 Fabian Society)
Fabianism and the Fiscal Question (1904 FS Tract No 116)
- 4000 copies printed
Love Among the Artists (1905 Herbert S Stone, Chicago)
The Irrational Knot : Being the 2nd Novel of his Nonage (1905 Archibald Constable)
(1905 Brentano's)
1906-1910
Is Free Trade Alive or Dead ? (1906 George Standring, London)
A Man of Destiny (1906 Constable)
How he Lied to her Husband (1907)
[Filmed in 1930]
John Bull's Other Island (1907)
Major Barbara (1907)
[Filmed in 1941]
Dramatic Opinions and Essays (1907 Constable)
- 2 vols
The Sanity of Art (1908 New Age Press, London)
Press Cuttings (1909 Constable)
Statement of the Evidence in Chief of G.B.S. Before the Joint Select Committee on Stage Plays
(1909 PP)
Rent and Value (1909 FS Tract No 142)
Socialism and Superior Brains (1910 FS Tract No 146)
1911-1915
The Doctor's Dilemma (1911 Constable)
[Filmed in 1958]
Getting Married (1911)
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet (1911)
Pygmalion (1912 Constable Initial Proof in wrappers)
[Filmed in 1938 and again in 1964, as "My Fair Lady"]
Selected Passages from the Works of Bernard Shaw (1912 Constable)
The Case for Equality (1913 Address to the Political & Economic Circle National Liberal Club)
Commonsense about the War (1914 Supplement to the "New Statesman")
Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanny's First Play (1914 Constable)
1916-1920
Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (1916 Constable)
["Androcles and the Lion" filmed in 1952]
How to Settle the Irish Question (1917 Talbot, Dublin/Constable, London)
- 32pp pamphlet
(Preface to)
WEA Education Year Book (1918)
Peace Conference Hints (1919 Constable)
Socialism and Ireland (1919 Supplement to the "New Commonwealth")
Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of the War (1919 Constable)
Offered in 1998 for £225
["The Great Catherine" filmed in 1968]
1921-1925
Back to Methuselah (1921 Constable)
Ruskin's Politics (1921 Ruskin Centenary Council)
A Discarded Defence of Roger Casement (1922 PP by Clement Shorter)
- 25 copies
The Unprotected Child & the Law (c1923 The Six Points Group, London)
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes (1924 Constable)
(1924 Brentano's, NY)
+ (1924 Constable)
- 750 Charles Ricketts
[Filmed in 1957]
Caesar and Cleopatra (1925 London)
[Filmed in 1945]
1926-1930
Translations and Tomfooleries (1926 Constable)
Bernard Shaw and Fascism (1927 Favil Press)
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism & Capitalism (1928 Constable)
(1937 Pelican)
- 2 vols
The Art of Rehearsal (1928 Samuel French NY)
***Mrs Le Mesurier : The Socialist Woman's Guide to Intelligence - A Reply to Mr Shaw
(1929 Benn)
The League of Nations (1929 FS Tract No 226)
The Apple Cart : A Political Extravanganza (1930 Constable)
(1931 Brentano's NY)
The Collected Works (1930-32 Wise & Co, NY)
- 30 vols. 1790 copies
The Works (1930-8 London)
- 33 vols. 1025
Immaturity (1930 Constable)
1931-1935
Ellen Terry & Bernard Shaw : A Correspondence (1931 Fountain Press, NY)
- 3000
What I Really Wrote About the War (1931 Constable)
Doctor's Delusion, Crude Criminology, Sham education (1931)
The Complete Plays (1931 Constable)
A Little Talk on America (1931 friends of the Soviet Union)
- 50 copies
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932 Constable)
- John Farleigh
Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (1932)
Music in London 1890-4 (1932 Constable)
- 3 vols
The Future of Political Science in America (1933 Dodd Mean, NY)
A Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home (1933 Constable)
- [UK version of the above]
Are We Heading for War ? (1934 Labour Party)
Too True to be Good : Village Wooing & On the Rocks : Three Plays (1934 Constable)
Prefaces (1934 Constable)
(1938 Odhams Press)
Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (1934 Constable)
- John Farleigh
Village Wooing and On the Rocks (1934)
The Millionairess (1935 PP)
(1936)
[Filmed in 1960]
1936-1950
The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1936)
The Six of Calais (1936)
London Music in 1888-9 (1937 Constable)
Cymbeline Refinished : A Variation (1937 PP in
Edinburgh)
- 50
Offered in 1999 for £900
Geneva : Fancied Page of History in 3 Acts (1939 Constable 7/6)
- Feliks Topolski
Shaw Gives Himself Away : An Autobiographical Miscellany
(1939
Gregynog Press, Newtown)
- 300
Offered in 1995 for £750
In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1939 Constable)
- Feliks Topolski
Back to Methuselah (1939 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed byJohn Farleigh
Everybody's Political What's What (1944 Constable)
The Crime of Imprisonment (1946 Philosophical Library, NY)
- William Gropper
Fabian Essays (1948 Allen & Unwin)
Buoyant Billions : A Comedy of No Manners (1949 Constable)
- 1025
Sixteen Self Sketches (1949 Constable)
After 1951
Shaw on Censorship (1955 Shavian Tract No 3)
An Unfinished Novel (1958 London)
- 1025
How to Become a Musical Critic (1960 Hart-Davis)
Man and Superman (1962 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 2 vols. 1500 signed by Charles Mozley
Two Plays for Puritans (1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by George Him
Pygmalion and Candida (1974 Ltd Eds Club, Vermont)
- 1500 signed by Clark Hutton
Flyleaves (1977 Bird & Bull Press for W Thomas Taylor, Austin)
- 350
Three Plays : Man & Superman, Pygmalion, St Joan (1979 Pennsylvania)
- Paul Hogarth
Collected Letters 1926-1950 (1988 Max Reinhardt £30)
READING
John Cordy Jeaffreson : The Real Shelley : New Views of the Poet's Life
(1885 Hurst & Blackett)
- 2 vols
G K Chesterton : George Bernard Shaw (1909 John Lane)
Geoffrey H Wells : A Bibliography of the Books & Pamphlets of George Bernard Shaw
(1928 London)
Eric Bentley : Bernard Shaw (1950 Robert Hale 12/6)
Blanche Patch : 30 Years with GBS (1951 Gollancz 12/6)
Colin Wilson : Bernard Shaw - A Reassessment (1969 Hutchinson 45/- / £2.25)
Sally Peters : Bernard Shaw - The Ascent of the Superman (1996 Yale UP £18.95)