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Lot 159

SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)

Four letters to publishers and a photograph, comprising an autograph and a typed letter signed to Constables, enquiring about royalties and wartime restrictions; and a typed letter signed to Stanley Unwin, with an autograph reply at the foot of a letter to him from Unwin, complaining about Herbert Skimpole's Bernard Shaw: The Man and his Work ("...staggering ignorance of the general body of thought to which my own works stand ... He seems to have learnt all he knows from my books and one or two others which he likes, and to imagine that I have built up the drama, and the science of economics, and the theory of evolution and all the rest of it from the very foundation ... Some day I shall be driven to an autobiography...") and providing a puff for Bertrand Russell's Freedom and Organisation ("...This invaluable book should be called a History of Nineteenth Century Mentality by a First Rate Mind..."); with a further autograph note to Unwin, and a postcard photograph of Shaw, inscribed for the Malvern St James School for Girls: "From G.B.S. who has not forgotten Lawnside. Ayot St. Lawrence, 26th. July 1947, when his 92nd. year began", the letters 4 pages, office stamps and dockets, 4to and oblong 8vo, Adelphi Terrace and Museum Street, 1915-1936;

Footnotes

Constables were Shaw's publishers. Stanley Unwin, although having much in common with him, never actually published any of his books, only, as in the present unfortunate instance, books about him.ODNB).

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