Shaw (George Bernard)

Autograph letter signed ('G.Bernard Shaw') to Harry Pollitt, Head of the Communist Party of Great Britain, written on the verso of a typed letter from Pollitt mentioning some publications for the National Minority Movement, Shaw's reply reading "What a gift! Karl Marx over again: the same old game, working out exactly to his specification. I cannot give any money to the N.M.M. because that would commit me to all the delusions of the middle class literary idealists of 1848 to the class war, the revolutionary proletariat, and all the other fragments of British Museum Socialism", one page, some splitting along folding marks, folio, the Malvern Hotel, 3 September 1929; with copy of Pollitt (H) Serving My Time, First Edition, signed by Pollitt on front free endpaper, green cloth, spine tanned, handling wear, 4to, Lawrence & Wishart, 1940 and a set of Russian 80th Birth Anniversary of Harry Pollitt stamps (3)