Author: Shaw, Bernard
Title: Widowers' Houses
Description: Constable & Co, 1939, 1st thus. Paperback, VG. 65pp, card wrappers a little rubbed & spine faded, endpapers foxed, a nice copy. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ The first separate issue of Shaw's 1892 play & the first of his to be staged. The play is part of a series which Shaw intended to raise awareness over social issues of the age - in this instance slum housing & the landlords who profited from it.

Keywords: theatre, literature, social history