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George Bernard Shaw
Nine Answers … With an Introduction by Christopher Morley.
Privately Printed for Jerome Kern.
[New York: 1923]
Sixty-two copies of this work were printed for Jerome Kern and given as Christmas gifts in 1923. Publication was unauthorized. As Shaw’s secretary Blanche Patch wrote to Christopher Morley on 31 January 1924, "The flat piracy mentioned in your letter took Mr Shaw aback considerably; and if it had been sold to the public he would have been obliged to take proceedings." This copy was inscribed by Christopher Morley to M. S. Slocum "privately."

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

George Bernard Shaw
Sixteen Self Sketches.
London: Constable and Company Limited, 1949.

The frontispiece wood-engraved portrait of Shaw shown here was made by M. Pikov. It also appeared in the first American edition, issued the same year by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. This copy is inscribed, "for Miss Marie Simpson whose help in my household set me free to do my own work in Whitehall Court for many years. G. Bernard Shaw Ayot Saint Lawrence 23 November 1949."

This work is a revised and expanded version of Shaw Gives Himself Away. It actually contains seventeen self sketches.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

George Bernard Shaw
Sixteen Self Sketches
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1949

The American edition.

Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection

[George Bernard Shaw]
From London to Ayot St. Lawrence by Road.
Ayot St. Lawrence, [n.d.]
The text of this page of privately printed directions to the Shaws’ country home was first published in Allan Chappelow’s Shaw - "The Chucker-Out," A Biographical Exposition and Critique, 1969. Even with these directions, finding the house was not easy.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw’s Rhyming Picture Guide To Ayot Saint Lawrence.
Luton: Published by the Leagrave Press Ltd., 1950.
This work began as a one-of-a-kind book created by Shaw for Ellen Terry, using a photo album and picture postcards of Ayot, accompanied by a series of doggerel verses that he wrote for each scene, after a visit that she made to the village in August, 1916. Work on publication of the album began in 1946, and the final version contains a completely new set of verses. It was the last book on which he worked, appearing six weeks after his death in 1950.

Sidney P. Albert -- George Bernard Shaw Collection

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