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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SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Autograph picture postcard signed with initials to Miss Gillmore,
saying that "So far I have missed only one of the addresses I gave you - that at Rouen. If you sent anything there, let me know. I slept at Neufchatel instead. The weather is Arctic; we came through two snowstorms yesterday, and the east wind today - a biting icy gale - froze us stiff ...", with autograph direction on the same side and a black and white picture of the Church of Notre Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers on the verso, 5½" x 3½", no place but postmarked from France, 4th April, date illegible
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41503
£375
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"I AM NOT A PHILANTHROPIST"
SHAW
(George Bernard, 1856-1950, Dramatist & Critic)
Caustic Autograph Note Signed with initials on his Compliments slip to an unnamed correspondent,
after the printed "With Bernard Shaw's compliments" he has written "but do not ask me again, as I am not a philanthropist ...", 4½" x 2", 4 Whitehall Court, London, 5th December
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
41497
£325
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SHAWE-TAYLOR
(Desmond, 1907-1995, Irish literary and music critic, published 'The Record Guide', 1951)
1 Autograph Letter Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed to Harold Chipp of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society,
saying "Will you please forgive me for declining your flattering invitation ? Lecturing is a world in itself ... Of course I remember you at the Festival" (11th July 1950), and regretting that he "can never be certain, so far ahead, what engagements I may have to cover professionally in London or elsewhere" (10th March 1964), 2 sides folio and 4to., Long Crichel House, Wimborne & 10 St Andrew's Place, N.W.1., 1950 -
neat filing holes in blank margins, a few light rust marks from paper clips
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
52726
£75
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