Random House 1988-09-12 American ed. Hardcover New Size: 9x6x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Random House, Date: 1988. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine in Near Fine Dust Jackets. Volume 1 Later printing. Volumes 2, 3 and 4 First Editions. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Bernard Shaw, 1. Audience: General/trade. 1988. Random House ISBN 0394525779 9780394525778 [US]

New York: Random House. 1988-1991. 3 vols., b/w illus., dj. Contents: v. 1, 1856-1898, the search for love. v. 2, 1898-1918, the pursuit of power. v. 3, The lure of fantasy, 1918-1951. Random House ISBN 0394525779 9780394525778 [US]

New York Random House 1988 American ed. Hard cover Four volumes. First American editions. Cloth-backed boards. Minor fading and a bit of rubbing. A fine set in pictorial dust jackets.

New York : Random House, 1988-Date: 1992, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 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 ...