PYGMALION, A ROMANCE IN FIVE ACTS [together with] ANDROCLES AND THE LION [and] PASSION POISON AND PETRIFICATION A TRAGEDY (three plays bound as one) by Shaw, George Bernard - 1914

Everybody's Magazine and Harry Furness' Christmas Annual, 1914. Hardcover. Three different first editions of Shaw's plays bound as one with original wrappers bound in. 8vo. The first edition of ANDROCLES AND THE LION (from Everybody's Magazine, Volume XXXI, No. 3, September, 1914, pp 289-311 with the original magazine cover bound in); the unauthorized first edition (appearing 2 years before the authorized edition) of PYGMALION, A ROMANCE IN FIVE ACTS (from Everybody's Magazine Volume XXXI, No. 5, November, 1914, pp. 577-612, original magazine front cover bound in); and the unauthorized first edition of PASSION, POISON, AND PETRIFICATION, A TRAGEDY (in Harry Furness's Christmas Annual for 1905, pp. 11-24, original front cover bound in).All three bound together in full morocco, top edges gilt, five raised bands, titles and author in gilt to spine. Light rubbing to lower corners and to backstrip, original covers trimmed closely at edges, else very good.