Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Unsigned draft manuscript for an article on the philosophical issues related to World War I, written in his wife’s hand and bearing Shaw’s handwritten emendations, three pages, 8.25 x 11, no date. The present item evidently consists of several extracts collected from earlier writings by Shaw, to which he adds comments and changes. For example, in relation to the phrase “The long duration of this war has resulted less from its hitherto undreamed of military machinery…than from the spiritual mechanism of errors & myths,” Shaw comments, “The word long should now be omitted, as the war is now seen to have been, in fact, an amazingly short one.” A reference to “the first iron ships…on the stocks” is followed by Shaw’s comment, “But where is the first iron ship? Nothing of the kind is visible so far except a coffin ship with League of Nations painted on it, and a black flag on its locker. Perhaps something better may come out of the Russian dockyard.” Accompanied by an unsigned typed transcript. In very good to fine condition, with folds, light wrinkling, and some minor scattered soiling and staining. The Irish dramatist opposed Britain's involvement in World War I and created a great deal of controversy with his provocative antiwar pamphlet, ‘Common Sense About the War’ (1914), in which he criticized Allied forces for their involvement and held them, along with Germany, equally responsible for the war atrocities. Interestingly, Shaw’s comment about what was on the horizon as far as Russia was concerned was eerily prophetic, as after the war, the 1917 Russian Revolution paved the way for Communism and the USSR.
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