8vo. Half-title. (Some minor spotting.) Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, uncut; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some very slight chipping to spine ends). Provenance: Joan Noel Anderson (presentation inscription from Shaw).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, HUMOROUSLY INSCRIBED BY SHAW ON THE HALF-TITLE: "Well, just to spite your Eldest Sister and you Extraordinary Mother who won't let you read St. Joan (she has evidently not read it herself) here goes! G. Bernard Shaw for Joan Noel Anderson 16th May 1931." The Apple Cart, first published in German in 1929, and was first performed in Warsaw in Polish. The play is a "comedy in which a King defeats an attempt by his popularly elected Prime Minister to deprive him of the right to influence public opinion through the press and the platform: in short, to reduce him to a cipher" (Preface, p.v). Laurence A195b.