Notes: 5th printing (per number line) of a completely unknown edition. First published 1921. Published in Penguin Books 1939. The title page states ''Definitive Text''. On the opposite we read: ''This text conforms with the definitive text as published in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw Collected Plays with their Prefaces, under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence''. The work is a cycle of five plays. Describing them as novellas is quite incorrect, but it is the closest description available. The Preface is of typically Shawian proportions, more than 50 pages long, and is separated into numerous sections which are omitted below. It is signed ''Ayot Saint Lawrence, 1921 / Revised, 1944''. The Postscript is signed ''Ayot Saint Lawrence, 1944''. Cover artist credited on the back cover.