[Rarebooks] FS: Too True to Be Good: Proof copy with manuscript corrections by George Bernard Shaw

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[SHAW,  George  Bernard]. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD: A COLLECTION  OF  STAGE
SERMONS  BY  A  FELLOW  OF  THE ROYAL  SOCIETY  OF  LITERATURE.  n.p.:
Privately  Printed 1932. First Edition. Printed wraps. Laurence AA16d.
This  is one of five different states of the "ROUGH PROOF-UNPUBLISHED"
of  this  play  typically  used as rehearsal or  prompt  copies.  This
particular  state includes the coda written at Malvern, where the play
premiered  on 8 July 1932, for its star Cedric Hardwicke on the  birth
of  his  first  son  on  7 August 1932.  According  to  Laurence,  "No
rehearsal  copies  of this proof state were printed. Only five  copies
are  noted."  It  is  not known if this is one of  those  five  or  an
unrecorded   copy.  This  copy   contains  numerous  alterations   and
additions  in  both pencil and blue pencil to the dialogue as well  as
added  prompts  and  drawn stage diagrams. There are also  five  clear
instances  of  changes  and/or additions made by Shaw himself  in  his
hand  including  a piece of paper glued in at the margin of  page  31.
All  of  Shaw's  changes are in the final printed copy  of  the  play,
though  two  are  slightly different from what he has written.  It  is
unclear  as  to  whose  copy this was, though if  not  Shaw's  himself
certainly  that  of  the director or a performer. Though there  is  no
evidence  of  ownership, this copy came from the collection of  Harold
Ackert.  Spine  quite  frayed  with the  front  cover  detached  about
halfway  down. Good copy of a scarce piece with manuscript corrections
by Shaw.                                                      $7500.00

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