[Rarebooks] FS: G.B. Shaw's own copy of his manuscript of a radio broadcast arguing for the builiding of a national theatre

[Charles Agvent]

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SHAW, George Bernard. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (TM): THE DARK LADY OF  THE
SONNETS.  Shaw's  Own  Copy  of a Radio Broadcast.  22  April  1938. A
5-page  typed  manuscript,  Shaw's  own  retained  carbon  copy,  with
several  words  crossed out on the last page and four words  added  in
his  hand.  This  broadcast talk was given as a prologue to  a  B.B.C.
performance  of Shaw's play THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS. In  addition
to  introducing the play, the piece is an argument for the building of
a  National  Theatre on the banks of the Thames. This  was  eventually
accomplished  but  not until 1976. This item was last sold as lot  248
in  the  Parke-Bernet  auction  of  23  February  1954.  It  was  then
described  as  Shaw's  first broadcast over the B.B.C., but  Shaw  had
read  one  of his plays for the B.B.C. in 1924 and had given a  number
of  talks  after that date. The five pages are tipped to  quarto-sized
pages  bound  together  without  covers and inserted in  a  folder  of
marbled  boards  with a cloth spine. Though there is no indication  of
such,  this  is  from  the  collection of  Harold  Ackert.  Fine  in a
cloth-backed marbled board folder.                            $1500.00

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