George Bernard Shaw His Plays by Mencken, Henry L - 1905

Boston, MA: John W. Luce & Co.. Very Good-. 1905. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and small edge nicks / tears, along with some beginning fraying. The paper label on the spine is noticeably toned. The paper label on the front cover has some lightly ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's large bookplate on the rear pastedown page (George H. Schmitter). "George Bernard Shaw (/'b? ? Rn? ? Rd/; [1] 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) , known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902) , Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature." (from Wikipedia) .