BIB_ID
231252
Accession number
MA 6122.1
Creator
Collis, John Stewart, 1900-1984.
Display Date
1924.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2003.
Description
1 item (189 p., plus a cover sheet and blank back page), unbound ; 26 cm
Notes
This is the setting typescript for Collis's biography of George Bernard Shaw. It includes corrections by Collis; setting notes; and roughly 800 words of corrections and commentary in pencil by Shaw.
Signed by Collis on p. 1.
Includes an autograph note from Shaw on the final page: "Well, thank you, Mr. Collis: I hope you have got the high lights right; for that is very much as I see them myself. But why should the world be distressed by the mercifully omitted shadows?" Signed by Shaw and dated "25/12/24."
Signed by Collis on p. 1.
Includes an autograph note from Shaw on the final page: "Well, thank you, Mr. Collis: I hope you have got the high lights right; for that is very much as I see them myself. But why should the world be distressed by the mercifully omitted shadows?" Signed by Shaw and dated "25/12/24."
Housed in
Blue quarter leather slipcase (28 cm)
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