SHAW AND THE CHARLATAN GENIUS.
A Memoir. Pp. 160, 16 plates, 2 text illustrations, appendices, index; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, the bottom fore-corners a trifle bruised; top edges brown; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; a little light foxing; Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1965. First edition. *'Why did Bernard Shaw defend himself so vehemently against allegations of illegitimacy that nobody was bringing against him? Why used he express so much pleasure in physically resembling his father whom he neither liked nor admired? The answer lies in the menage a trois, consisting of his parents and a strange singing teacher named George Vandeleur Lee, in which Shaw was brought up in his native Dublin' [wrapper blurb]. Item #098505
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