University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket; DJs have faintest soil, one has 1/16" closed tear at head of spine. 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two volumes of diaries from the playwrite, novelist, and critic (George) Bernard Shaw. Covers "early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive 1917 diary." Each daily entry displays his thoughts and the day's doings, and covers minute detail such as his expenditures for tea, trains, umbrellas, boots, newspapers, and alms to the poor on the street. Each entry annotated by the editor, Stanley Weintraub. A fascinating and very personal view into Victorian English life and radical politics of the time.Vol I and Vol II total 1239 pp including an extensive index of both. In grey-brown cloth over boards with title in metallic green to spine. Both volumes are fine in near fine DJs.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .