Dissatisfied with the teachings of respectable white missionaries, an African girl embarks upon her own quest for God and the truth. Journeying through the forest, she comes face to face with various religious figures, each one seeking to convert her to their own brand of faith.
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Dissatisfied with the teachings of respectable white missionaries, an African girl embarks upon her own quest for God and the truth. Journeying through the forest, she comes face to face with various religious figures, each one seeking to convert her to their own brand of faith.
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Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $30.96, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1932 by Constable.
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Very good. Constable 1932 reprint. Pages clean and bright, inscription on second page, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $31.65, good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $40.24, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Hesperus Press.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $46.66, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1932 by Constable.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published by London: Constable, 1932.
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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.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $109.94, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1933 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Quercus Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Constable & Company Limited.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. One of the most delightful books in the Shavian canon, due to the nineteen wood engravings by John Farleigh (1900-1965) that grace it. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition (December 1932). Illustrated paper-covered boards in black and white; white lettering on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 75 pages. There is a rather attractive bookplate on the front paste-down. Rubbing at the margins, but still an extremely handsome book. Lacking the scarce glassine dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by George Houle rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Springs, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by London, Constable & Company Limited [1932]..
Publisher:
London, Constable & Company Limited [1932].
Published:
1932
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9319443341
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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.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $2,500.00, very good condition, Sold by Charles Agvent, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fleetwood, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Constable & Company Limited.
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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 out of the Dean's reach. The book will not be published until the 5th." Tipped to the half-title page with a small piece of tape is a short note by the recipient stating that she had lent the book in 1946 for the [National Book League] exhibition for Shaw's 90th birthday. [Mary] Catherine Inge was the wife of William Ralph Inge, the dean of St. Paul's.
Add this copy of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God to cart. $4,000.00, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by London.
Edition:
London
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Publisher:
London
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15734608345
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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 Yesterday' which describes the visit in detail and also mentions the occasion upon which they received the current inscribed volume in the mail after the Shaw's visit. In near fine condition. In the original glassine which is in very good condition. Rare and desirable with exceptional provenance. 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, challenging popular prejudice, both in sex and race.
