[Rarebooks] FS: George Bernard Shaw MANUSCRIPT of an early Radio talk: THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine GEORGE BERNARD SHAW items (letters, manuscripts, signed 
books, photographs, etc.) in our inventory which can be seen at 
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SHAW, George Bernard. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (TM): THE DARK LADY OF THE 
SONNETS. Shaw's Own Copy of a Radio Broadcast. A 5-page typed 
manuscript, Shaw's own retained carbon copy, with several words crossed 
out on the last page and four words added in his hand. This broadcast 
talk was given as a prologue to a B.B.C. performance of Shaw's play THE 
DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS. In addition to introducing the play, the piece 
is an argument for the building of a National Theatre on the banks of 
the Thames. This was eventually accomplished but not until 1976. This 
item was last sold as lot 248 in the Parke-Bernet auction of 23 February 
1954. It was then described as Shaw's first broadcast over the B.B.C., 
but Shaw had read one of his plays for the B.B.C. in 1924 and had given 
a number of talks after that date. The five pages are tipped to 
quarto-sized pages bound together without covers and inserted in a 
folder of marbled boards with a cloth spine. Though there is no 
indication of such, this is from the collection of Harold Ackert. Fine 
in a cloth-backed marbled board folder. (#013128)        $1,500.00

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