YOUR ESSAY IS RUBBISH
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Excoriating Typed Letter Signed to Mr Hecht in Switzerland
saying that it is "no use asking me or any one else who is up to date in economics to go back to the eighteenth century on the ground that we should begin at the beginning. You might as well ask us to go back to the Ptolemaic astromony. Your essay is rubbish. When you began there seemed some hope ... all you needed apparently was to master what had already been worked out in abstract economics: that is, the supply-and-demand theory as completed by Jevons and the Swiss and Austrian economists, and the theory of rent. But you have not done so: you go on blundering over elementary matters and trying to ford rivers that have been bridged for half a century and you have lost all your freshness, and taken to dull abuse of the experts ... The only definition of a luxury that I have ever been able to arrive at is something that would not be produced if the user had to earn it instead of getting it for nothing. No other line can be drawn ... Please don't send me any more essays. Buy an island and live on it with Major Douglas ... have a happy time explaining to one another how to save the world from financial ruin ...", 2 sides oblong 8vo., 10 Adelphi Terrace headed paper, 26th July
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
37133
£875
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Fine photo signed with the place and date
showing him in profile seated in a magnificent carved chair on a raised stage with a lectern, an audience is visible in the background, 9" x 7", Edinburgh, 28th October together
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
36142
£750
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[SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)]
Fine unsigned Sunday Times press photo
showing him head and shoulders in profile, with his white bushy beard and his glasses on his head, 8" x 6", no place, no date,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
28259
£65
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Interesting Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Brauen,
asking her forgiveness for "not only calling at the very incorrect hour of 12, but breaking into your house and depositing that great lumping white album for your father. My only excuse is that I had some business at Welwyn Garden City ... and petrol is scarce, I thought I would kill two birds with one stone ..." and saying how it serves him right to have missed her, 1 side oblong 8vo., Ayot St Lawrence, 1st July
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
28399
£475
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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Shaw's Compliments slip, not signed, but with an autograph note,
of his address at the time, "(Cap d'Antibes)" and the date, 4½" x 2", Cap d'Antibes, 2nd September
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
3072
£65
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