[Rarebooks] FS: Exceptional George Bernard Shaw Proof, Manuscript, and Letters

[Charles Agvent]

  One of MANY fine GEORGE BERNARD SHAW items in our inventory which can 
be seen at http://www.charlesagvent.com

SHAW, George Bernard. EVERYBODY'S POLITICAL WHAT'S WHAT? Manuscript 
Page, Page Proofs and 3 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) by SHAW. London: 
Constable and Company Ltd., 1943 and 1944. First Edition. Laurence A246 
for the printed book. This collection, all housed in a green cloth 
chemise within a half green morocco slipcase gilt-lettered on the spine 
and front cover, consists of seven items related to the book: a single 
page typed Manuscript Revised Contents Table dated 21 August 1943 with 
several corrections in Shaw's hand numbering about 30 words; three 
examples of proof pages for the title page with simple corrections by 
Shaw including the elimination of "Machiavelli Modernized" from the 
title (noted by Laurence as being eliminated by Shaw in the final 
page-proof); and three AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by Shaw with his 
initials (two on postcards and one on both sides of a small sheet of 
paper), one letter in Pitman's Shorthand (with a typed transcript), all 
to John Wardrop regarding proofs and the index for the book as well as 
Shaw's wife's illness. Some excerpts: "I always sign G. Bernard Shaw, 
and my professional name is Bernard Shaw without the George, which I 
loathe." "I am putting the book together fast, and hope soon to send you 
the final revise in chapters and indexable. It has been a devil of a 
job, and has cost me a play or two or perhaps three." "At your age I 
undertook an index to the works of Thomas Lodge for an Elizabethan 
Society. Being inexperienced and conscientious I did not know when to 
stop." Though there is no evidence of ownership, these items came from 
the collection of Harold Ackert. Very Good to Near Fine in a custom 
slipcase.         $6,500.00

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