SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Remarkable long Typed Letter Signed to My dear Kennedy with lengthy autograph postscript
saying that he has "been puzzling over this business of the amalgamation with the 300, which was evidently made without any serious attempt to think it out. Neither we nor Mrs Whitworth provided for the situation which was bound to arise if Mrs Whitworth pressed her privilege. But the disadvantage was more hers than ours, because we had nothing to do but pursue our normal course, whereas she had to attack it ... Until we have definitely refused her some specific demand she cannot go to the courts to claim specific performances and damages. And we must avoid a lawsuit, because the bank would probably call in the overdraft if we became involved in litigation ... I do not think we can now rely on her failure to supply the expected addition to the membership, because we have accepted her contribution as sufficient by letter her do the Lawrence plays ... At all events, let us waive that, and consider what she can claim ... Mrs Whitworth is entitled to a certain proportion of the season's plays by simply proposing them ... The effect is to set up a dictatorship of Mrs Whitworth plus one supporter over a substantial part of the Society's work and revenue. Such an arrangement could work only with a dictator of supreme talent and tact, and a fairly representative taste in plays; and the fact is that she is breaking down shoews that the tact at least is lacking .."
small closed tear in blank right margin at fold
Item Date:
1949
Stock No:
38041
£1275
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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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AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY OF THIS SCARCE LEAFLET
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
"THe Unprotected Child and the Law"
fine copy of this scarce 8 page leaflet in grey paper wraps, lettered in black, First Edition, printed by "The Six Point Group" (Women's Printing Society), London, no date, Laurence A167, circa
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
39286
£125
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