Search Results: the adventures of black girl by shaw george bernard

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.

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. .

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..

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.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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.

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.”

London: Constable, 1932.. 8vo. Decorative Boards, 75 pp., Good with small tears along spine, else VG. Illustrated. First Edition.Provenance: From the collection of the late Lloyd Dinkelspiel Sr (1889-1959) and his wife, Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel (1904-1954), granddaughter of Isaias Wolf Hellman (1842 –1920), the founder of Wells Fargo Bank.

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.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Foxing on text block edges. .

London, Constable & Company Limited [1932]., 1932. First edition (so stated; "December, 1932"). 8vo. Illustrated with 19 wood engravings by John Farleigh (4 are full page). Original black pictorial boards (small spots on top edge). Fine. No signatures or bookplates. No foxing.. F. Hardcover.

London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932. First edition of Shaw's controversial 20th century retelling of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with wood-cut engravings by John Farleigh. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Small bookplate to the pastedown. The Black Girl, as protagonist in the present volume, serves the same purpose as Christian in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress; that is to say her own "inner", or "spiritual" life is represented as a series of physical events and encounters. After becoming dissatisfied with the inconsistencies of the answers the missionary who has converted her gives to her questions, the Black Girl wanders into the forest on a literal search for God. Having a powerful intellect capable of formulating searching theological questions, and exposing vapid answers, the Black Girl so becomes superior to the inferior insipid white missionary woman,… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. First American edition. Fine in VG- d.j. with scratching to front panel. First American edition. 75p. Illustrated with wood engravings by John Farleigh. Black cloth with white titles.

London: Constable & Company Limited, (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers and to two pages of text. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Pictorial boards and twenty woodblock illustrations within by John Farleigh. Laurence A210a. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED to “Catherine Inge/from/Bernard Shaw” and dated “30/11/32” on the half-title page. Pasted to the facing blank page is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "G. B. S." from Shaw to “My dear Mrs. Inge” discussing a concert as well as the publication of this book. In full: “It was extraordinarily recreative to hear those boys' voices after the screams of the female bourgeoisie of the west country at the Three Choirs Festival. And imagine its being the first time I ever heard a note of music at St. Pauls! THE BLACK GIRL is now equipped with a preface (at the end, as Sir Walter Scott recommended) and a lot of fascinating pictures. The one on page 56 is a speaking likeness of myself in my radiant youth. Keep it on the top shelf… Read More

Constable & Company Limited: London, 1932. First edition of George Bernard Shaw's short story collection, including the satirical allegorical title story: The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, designed and illustrated with engravings by John Farleigh. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt this Visiting Card after a memorable day at Government House, Manila from Charlotte F. Shaw and G. Bernard Shaw 9th February 1933." Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw stopped at Manila on a round-the-world cruise where they were invited to lunch with Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt, and his wife Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt where they enjoyed lunch and Shaw assisted in editing one of Theodore's reports to the war department. Laid is is a small copy of a selection of pages from Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt's 1959 autobiography 'Day Before… Read More