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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD & ARTIE SHAW Everybody's Political What's What?
New York Dodd, Mead 1947
Later printing. From the library of the great jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Artie Shaw and with his bookplate. Also, with a Ôfake' signed inscription on the front free endpaper from ÔGeorge Bernard Shaw' to Artie Shaw, completely in the hand of Artie Shaw: ÒTo Artie Shaw - with affection and respect. G.B.S. Sept. 1947.Ó As it turns out, Artie Shaw signed and inscribed some of his books to himself, both as a security measure and as a private bit of humor. Given that Shaw was well known for his reluctance to give autographs, this is an opportunity to have not only his signature, but an element of his mischievous personality as well. Laid in is a copy of a 2-page typed signed document written by Shaw's personal assistant attesting to and explaining the quirky story behind the counterfeit nature of the signed inscriptions. Very good slightly used copy with some minor edge wear without dust jacket. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (1910 - 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, started out his career in music at thirteen as a saxophone player and switched to the clarinet at sixteen. He gained experience and skill while on the road at a young age which lead to steady work in the 30s as a session musician and performing with various bands and orchestras and on radio. His first critical acclaim came with his performance of ÒInterlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935. And during the swing era, Shaw's big band enjoyed such enduring hits like Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," "Back Bay Shuffle,Ó "Moonglow,Ó "Rosalie," "Frenesi," and "Summit Ridge Drive." He was known for his innovation both in his musical arrangements and for becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer, Billie Holiday, in 1938 to tour the then segregated southern United States. Throughout his career he worked with many of the great jazz musicians and vocalists of his day, including Helen Forrest, Mel Torme, drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough, guitarists Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff. A charismatic and complicated man, Shaw was married eight times, most notably to actresses Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Doris Dowling, and Evelyn Keyes, Betty Kern, the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern, and ÔForever Amber' author Kathleen Winsor. In 2004, he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his musical career and accomplishments, he is the author of an autobiography, ÔThe Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity,' three short novels; ÔI Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead!,' a collection of short stories, ÔThe Best of Intentions and Other Stories,' and an autobiographical novel titled ÔThe Education of Albie Snow,' which, sadly never made it to publication.
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD On Going To Church
East Aurora, New York Roycroft Printing Shop 1896
First Edition, State A. Signed presentation copy from the publisher inscribed: ÒFor Henry O. Statzell, with all good wishes from Elbert Hubbard.Ó Bookplate of Frederick Forrest Peabody on rear pastedown. Frederick Forrest Peabody (July 6, 1859 Ð February 23, 1927) was a prominent citizen of Santa Barbara, California in the early twentieth century. As chairman of the local Board of Education, he oversaw the construction of Santa Barbara High School, and as a philanthropist he contributed generously to the rebuilding of the city after the 1925 earthquake. Founder and partner and President of the Cluett and Peabody Collar Company which produced Arrow Shirts.Ó Hardbound in gray boards with white cloth spine. Very minor wear, very good plus.
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225.00 USD
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD Original Black & White Photograph of Author George Bernard Shaw at the Grand Canyon
8 1/2Ó x 6 1/2Ó 1936
Original black & white photograph of the author George Bernard Shaw taken at the Grand Canyon. A vintage print taken for promotional purposes from International News Photos with a mimeographed note affixed to the verso, dated 3-10-36, reading in full: Ò'Most aweful sight I ever viewed,' says GBS. Grand Canyon, Arizona...In explanation of the above it might be explained that George Bernard Shaw meant Ôawe inspiring' and not Ôawful' when he described his reaction to a view in Grand Canyon National Park. He is seen at the Lipan Point, the highest elevation on the south rim of the canyon with his wife and the chief naturalist. The naturalist was explaining some of the points named for Indian tribes. It was suggested that a point be named in honor of Mr. Shaw if he would suggest a name. The famous man of letters considered the proposal for only a second or so and replied... 'Shawnee.'Ó Near fine condition with a hint of handling. In the photo Mr. Shaw is facing the camera, looking down, and his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend has her back to the camera, with the naturalist focused on her. In the background is the Grand Canyon.
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD Original Black & White Photograph of Author George Bernard Shaw at the Grand Canyon
8 1/2Ó x 6 1/2Ó 1936
Original black & white photograph of the author George Bernard Shaw taken at the Grand Canyon. A vintage print taken for promotional purposes from the Associated Press with a mimeographed note affixed to the verso, dated 3-8-36, reading in full: ÒGeorge Bernard Shaw sees Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon, Ariz. Mar 6...George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, making a world tour, is shown above as he cautiously peered over the edge of the Grand Canyon at Lipan Point on the south rim.Ó Near fine condition with a hint of handling. In the photo Mr. Shaw is in standing in profile, at the edge of the canyon looking down, with his wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend barely visible standing next to one of the canyon naturalists. In the background is the Grand Canyon.
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD The Millionairess
London Penguin 1960
First Edition Thus. Paperback Original. Very good plus without dust jacket. The front cover is illustrated with a photograph of Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers in their roles as the millionairess and the doctor from the romantic comedy film.
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD & T.E. LAWRENCE Typed Letter Signed from George Bernard Shaw Written to T.E. Lawrence Giving Shaw's Initial Impressions of Lawrence's THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
Ayot St. Lawrence Oblong 8vo., 2 pages., on both sides of a single sheet of personal letterhead 1922
Original Typed Letter Signed (ÓG.B.S.Ó). George Bernard Show writes to Lawrence of Arabia. One of the most historic Shaw letters, and major T.E. Lawrence pieces, still in private hands. In the Fall of 1922, Lawrence was soliciting comments and advice from a few friends including Shaw on his original long version of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom which he had privately typeset and printed in Oxford in an edition of 8 copies. Lawrence was torn by the question of whether it should be presented to the public in some form and was even toying with destroying the work. In reply to an anxious query from Lawrence as to what Shaw thought of the book, Shaw writes explaining that he had not finished it yet: ÒPatience, patience: do not again shoot your willing camel through the head [the reference is to the scene in Seven Pillars, Chapter LIII]. The truth is I haven't read it yet. I have sampled it; but I must read it all through.Ó Shaw explains the delay in his finishing it was do to the fact his wife, Charlotte, had seized the book first on arrival and read it all the way through. Shaw offers various recommendations for Òwhat is to be done with itÓ, noting that Òobviously there are things in it that you cannot publish. Yet many of them are things that WON'T die.Ó Shaw recommends depositing a couple of the 8 copies of the Oxford printing with the British Library and in New York, a third in Rome or Paris or Washington, ÒDestruction being out of the question: If I thought you capable of that I should take the book to London, burn down my house here, and tell you that the book had perished in the flames. It is one of the Cheops pyramids of literature and history.Ó Joking about its length. ÒNo matter, I read the Bible in my youth straight through from Genesis to the Epistles; and I daresay I shall survive your Seven Pillars.Ó Shaw remarks more seriously and accurately, that Òan abridgment will have to be made for general circulation.Ó [Such an abridgment was already being undertaken by Edward Garnett]. In one paragraph Shaw analyses the structure and what is needed for the book to work Ò...but it doesn't matter whether such a record is that of Caesar's campaigns in Gaul or Lawrence's in Arabia.Ó Finally, Shaw writes with his usual perspicacity: ÒI am curious to know how you will come out of it, out of the reading, I mean. Take the case of [Charles George] Gordon, for example. He was a most infernal scoundrel according to any workable standard of human morality. Have you ever considered the question as affecting yourself? You are evidently a very dangerous man; most men who are any good are: there is no power for good that is not also a power for evil...but I wonder what, after reading the book through, I will decide to do with you if ever I become one of the lords of the east. As I shant, perhaps I shall put you in a play. If my playwriting days are not over....Ó Lawrence did dwell in Shaw's mind and in 1931 he based one of the main characters in the play, Too True To Be Good, on Lawrence and even sent the play to him for Lawrence's advice. After finishing finishing the complete, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Shaw wrote Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that "The Work is a masterpiece, one of the few very best of its kind in the world." This letter provides an important and historic record of reaction from one literary giant to the author of one the triumphant books of the twentieth century. Enclosed in a handsome morocco and cloth case.
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25000.00 USD
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