[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful Vintage Photograph of George Bernard Shaw

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Fri Oct 26 12:16:20 EDT 2007


 From our latest Internet Catalogue which contains a truly amazing array 
of TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, a 
total of 90 items, many quite scarce and remarkable as well as revealing 
of the creative process and personal lives of the subjects.  It includes 
a number of archives, some rather substantial, including Sherwood 
Anderson, W. H. Auden (SOLD), Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer (SOLD), John 
Masefield (SOLD), John O'Hara, Clifford Odets, Maxwell Perkins, E. H. 
Shepard, and Philip Whalen, among others.  We also have similar material 
from previous catalogues that can be found with our search engine on our 
web site.  And we have over 100 George Bernard Shaw items including 
letters, documents, manuscripts, proofs, inscribed books, etc. listed on 
our home page: http://www.erols.com/agvent
The entire list can be accessed using the search engine there.


SHAW, George Bernard.   VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH PORTRAIT.   Superb 8-7/8" x
10-7/8"  original  side profile photograph of an elderly  and  serious
Shaw  SIGNED  by  the  photographer Howard Coster on  the  mat,  which
measures  11"  x 14", further matted to an overall size of 16"  x  20"
with  the  photographer's stamp "Photographer of Men" on the verso  of
the  large mat. Light overall browning to mats. Some discoloration  to
verso of the large mat, photograph Fine.                       $750.00


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