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Box 2

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Contains 25 Results:

GBS : Back to Methuselah [Preface][proof A], 1938?

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

For the Limited Editions Club edition, published 1939; text of the proof is found on pp. vii-viii of the book, but in a different format

Dates: 1938?

GBS : Back to Methuselah [Preface][proof B], 1938?

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

For the Limited Editions Club edition, published in 1939; text of the proof is found on pp. vii-viii of the book, but in a different format; penciling may be John Farleigh's sketch for the illustration published on p. 82 of the book

Dates: 1938?

GBS : Back to Methuselah [specimen pages], ca. 1938

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

One page of text and one engraving by John Farleigh; for the Limited Editions Club edition (New York 1939); with identifying note added on separate leaf by Dan H. Laurence; with a printed (1938) "Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings for the Engravings by John Farleigh for 'Back to Methuselah' ..."

Dates: ca. 1938

GBS : Back to Methuselah [Title page][proof A], 1938

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

For the Limited Editions club Edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different title page

Dates: 1938

GBS : Back to Methuselah [Title page][proof B], 1939

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Three copies, one marked for changes; of a proof for the Limited Editions Club edition, which was published in 1939 with a quite different title page; See: Typed Letter Signed to John Farleigh from George Macy, February 14, 1939

Dates: 1939

GBS : Typed Manuscript: "A Balfour Ballad", January 23, 1888

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Date and Place given are those of publication in The Star; the verse was published unsigned

Dates: January 23, 1888

GBS : Autograph Manuscript: "The Best Books for Children", n.d.

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Article written for unidentified periodical; with editor's introductory note added below title; copy of manuscript in the British Museum

Dates: n.d.

GBS : Typed Manuscript Signed: "Brogue Shock", ca. March 1917

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Article, with corrections in Shaw's hand; published in The Nation, March 24, 1917

Dates: ca. March 1917

GBS : Typed Manuscript: The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God [stage version], September 1968

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

"Adapted for the stage by Christopher Isherwood;" with a copy of the printed program of the first and only production of this version (Mark Taper Forum, 1968); gifts of Gordon Davidson

Dates: September 1968