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Hesperus Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Used - Good.

Dodd, Mead & Company [1933], 0000. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo 75pp A Good first American edition copy (rubbing to corners and edges, missing DJ) B/w Engravings By John Farleigh.

new : Capricorn Books, 1959. 8th printing. MM paperback in glossy color illus wraps.. Fine unmarked.. A gem of satire about a modern Candide. Bright tight clean crisp PB copy. 96 pp, b/w illus.

Constable and Company Ltd., 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. Reprinted. 75 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated paper covered boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor scuffing to spine ends, edges and corners. Minor wear marks to boards.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Flexible boards. Near fine. Octavo, 74pp., illustrated by John Farleigh. A crisp, clean, very good copy with mild internal foxing. In a good or better mildly age-toned dust jacket, with some chips to the spine ends.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. No dj; 8 vo; 75 pages. .

Hesperus Press, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. No dj; 8 vo; 75 pages. .

New York: Dodd Mead, 1933. Book. Illus. by Farleigh, John. Good. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo. New York: Dodd Mead, 1933. First American edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 75 pp. Designed and engraved by John Farleigh. Decorated endpapers. John Farleigh, also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. Repaired cracking along spine. Previous owner bookplate. Solid copy. Good..

London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1932. Numerous exquisitely beautiful b/w illustartions, bookplate of John William Bridge on FEP. Wear along spine, head of spine beginning to detach from boards and has been reinforced with tape, lightly rubbed corners of cover, age spotting to FEP, half-title page and BEP, minor age spotting on some pages, otherwise text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout.. First Edition. paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Constable, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Constable 1932 reprint. Pages clean and bright, inscription on second page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.

London: Constable & Company, 1933. 75pp. Illustrated paper boards. Previous owner's name and date (25/12/33) bottom LH corner of first blank page, otherwise unmarked. A very tidy copy although paper along spine of covers missing thus exposing netting - book still fully firm.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Dodd, Mead & Co., New York: (1933)., 1933 75p. Wonderful black and white engravings by John Farleigh. Decorated title page. Decorative paste downs and end papers. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding. Original dust jacket with haunting drawing of a young girl. DJ worn with some chipping. Still, a nice Copy. BLKAM 2 0.0. Hardcover.

DODD MEAD, NY,, 1933. HBDJ, 1st Ediiton, 1933, copyright pg & post text Dates Match, F-/VG, DJ light rub, wear Scuff & Tiny chips Creases tears Extremities, BLACK Cloth lettered in white nice condition, Interior nice tight clean light Fox, wear, . Story about a black girl searching the jungle for God, Shaw explores the existence of God in this novella, which is beautifully illustrated, A nice copy of this successful, though often taboo, book.A fictional satire compared by critics to Voltaire's Candide . First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Constable & Company, Limited, 1932 Some rubbing along the edges of the spine and bumping to the corners, some light foxing in the text. Overall a very nice copy of this rare book.

London: Constable, 1932 (500 gram rate) excellent copy, slightest wear to corner tips showing as white to the black, clean decorative endpapers, slight foxing or browning to prelims, uncommonly tidy copy in the pictorial papered boards, 75pp socialist allegory (500 grams). First Edition. Decorative Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Farleigh. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London : Constable & Company Limited. , 1932. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5" . Not Stated. A first edition copy of this work by George Bernard Shaw, with illustrations throughout. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With an engraved title page, four full page plates and fourteen vignette illustrations. Collated complete. 'The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God' is a satirical allegory, telling the story of a young black woman who, when struggling to understand the words of her local Christian missionary, attempts to go out and 'seek' God. She meets several religious figures, including God and Jesus, as well as an atheist, but isn't satisfied with any of their responses. The story outraged the religious public, which ultimately led to its heavy demand. There have been numerous responses, both satirical and serious, from other creators, including 'The Adventures of the Black girl in her Search for Mr Shaw' by the journalist… Read More

London, Constable and Company Limited, 1932. Third Edition. Hardcover. Minor, scattered marginal foxing. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : 74 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm. Subjects : 1900-1999. Teenage girls, Black Fiction Written by a White Man. Women, Black ; Fiction. God ; Fiction. Religions ; Caricatures and cartoons. Christianity ; Fiction ; Race. Adolescent.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1933. First edition. 17 illustrations by John Farleigh. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in white on upper cover and spine. 75 pp. An attractive copy, showing very well, the textblock and illustrations clean and tight, some very light mellowing. George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, a ceremony at which the spokesman presented Shaw’s prize with winged words, “for his work which was marked by both idealism and humanity.”

Constable, 1932-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.0152 in x 20.8122 in x 13.4518 in. Copyright George Bernard Shaw 1932. Hardback. Clean copy, sound binding.