SHAW GEORGE BERNARD Two Autograph Postcards Signed

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"IT WOULD BE WISER TO PAY THEM TO STAY AWAY" SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Two Autograph Postcards Signed. The first, "G. Bernard Shaw," to Hans von Briesen, informing him that "'The Devil's Disciple' is not yet published," and that it might form part of a volume of new plays. The second, "G.B.S.," to David H. Wallace, requesting that nothing be published in his name concerning his play Major Barbara, saying that "it is useless for me to write about the play as I know it, if New York knows it as a bright fashionable comedy." Each 1 page, approximately 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches; toned overall, minor soiling, the first with minor folds. London, 4 August 1898; 10 January no year [from postmark]

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10 January: ". . . [Y]ou cannot save Major B. by writing it up. The people who are caught in that way are just those who are so bored by anything serious that they give it a bad name. It would be wiser to pay them to stay away."