Fanny's First Play by George Bernard Shaw. Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year. It features a play within a play. In a country house, ...
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Fanny's First Play by George Bernard Shaw. Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year. It features a play within a play. In a country house, Fanny O'Dowda, the daughter of the Count O'Dowda, is putting on a play she has written. She has hired professional actors and invited major critics. Fanny, who has studied at Cambridge, is keeping her authorship secret. She expects that her father the Count will disapprove of the play, as he hates the vulgarity of modern life. He has only just returned to Britain from living in Venice.
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Add this copy of Fanny's First Play to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of Fanny's First Play to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of Fanny's First Play to cart. $26.64, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2021 by Aeterna.
Add this copy of "Fanny's First Play: an Easy Play for a Little Theatre" to cart. $35.48, good condition, Sold by Victoria Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bere Alston, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1911 by Little Theatre.
Add this copy of Fanny's First Play to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by Bernhard Tauchnitz.
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Very Good. First Continental edition. 12mo. Quarter green cloth and printed paper over boards with printed paper label. Pages deeply toned with small dampstain on foredges, chipping with some loss of the green cloth spine spine head and rear joint, about very good.
Add this copy of Fanny's First Play. Acting Copy and Stage Directions as to cart. $250.00, Sold by Westsider Rare & Used Books In rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1911 by N/A.
Edition:
1911, N/A
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N/A
Published:
1911
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12442633550
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Script pages pasted to larger sheets with stage direction, unbound in clamshell slipcase.
Add this copy of Fanny's First Play to cart. $3,003.00, like new condition, Sold by Kevker Publications, ships from Minden, ON, CANADA, published 1928 by London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1928.
Publisher:
London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1928
Published:
1928
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14042980727
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Fine. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. ? . 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Olive drab cloth cover with title and author's name on the spine. Cover in good, clean condition. Includes a preface. Printed on coarse, deckle edged paper. Interesting page numbering as this volume starts on page 151 and runs to 234 plus two pages of ads. Part of a series: This bookseller has, in similar design and condition, "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" (stock # 246) and "Major Barbara" (stock # 245) also by Shaw and published by Constable.
