[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by George Bernard Shaw to George Sylvester Viereck

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SHAW, George Bernard. MISALLIANCE, THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS,
AND  FANNY'S  FIRST  PLAY. WITH A TREATISE ON  PARENTS  AND  CHILDREN.
London:  Constable  and  Company Ltd. 1914.  First  Edition.  Original
green  cloth. Laurence A128a. All three plays had previously apperared
in  German translation. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half
title    page  "To  George   Sylvester  Viereck/from  George   Bernard
Shaw./London./30th  May 1914." Viereck was a very popular poet between
1907  and  1912,  about  the same time  that  he  became  increasingly
involved  in  German-American social and political  movements.  Though
his  propaganda  efforts  for  Germany  during  the  first  World  War
occasionally  got him into hot water, he did not get into any  serious
trouble.  His  expulsion  from the Poetry Society of America  in  1919
resulted  in  a letter of protest from Shaw that was published in  THE
NEW   REPUBLIC.  Viereck  interviewed  Shaw   several  times  in   the
succeeding  years.  He befriended not only Shaw but also Einstein  and
Freud,  claiming  to have been granted the first interview to  explain
psychoanalysis  to  the public. In the 1930s, however, Viereck  became
an  American  propagandist for Nazi Germany and ultimately spent  time
in  prison  for his part in their cause. Some chipping to the head  of
the spine. Still Near Fine                                    $1000.00

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