GEORGE BERNARD SHAW | FRAMED ALS
Harlech, Wales: 1921. Framed ALS and envelope, single sheet. In Very Good condition. Letter is housed in a painted wooden frame with a white cloth mat. Some scuffs on frame. Small area of adhesive residue on glass. Letter is written in black ink by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, addressed to lecture circuit manager James B. Pond. In the letter, Shaw declines to embark on a North American lecture tour, making jabs at Pond's overtly commercial incentive in making the request for him to do so. The letter and envelope are moderately age toned; envelope is lightly soiled. Letter is faintly creased from having been folded into fourths. Shelved in [location].
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,300
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Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book A Bright Shining Lie, while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and artwork from their collection carries added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.