[Rarebooks] FS: G. B. Shaw's MISALLIANCE Inscribed to George Sylvester Viereck

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine GEORGE BERNARD SHAW items in our inventory which can be 
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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 appeared 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.                       $1,000.00	

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