[Rarebooks] FS: Superb G. B. Shaw INSCRIPTION in THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1900 NET

(SHAW, George Bernard). THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH 
FOR GOD. London: Constable & Company Limited, (1932). First Edition. 
Laurence A210a. Pictorial boards and twenty woodblock illustrations 
within by John Farleigh. This copy with a lengthy SIGNED INSCRIPTION by 
the author on the half-title page: "Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, 
Herts/Easter Sunday 1941./Dear Mrs. Berry/As this is a first edition it 
has all the/original mistakes in it. See my marginal notes/on pages 11, 
35 & 63./Sell it to the foolish people who collect/first editions; and 
buy a properly corrected copy/with the proceeds. The transaction will 
be/quite profitable./Your father stood high in my regard/and 
respect./faithfully/G. Bernard Shaw." On the three pages mentioned by 
Shaw are MANUSCRIPT corrections in his hand ranging from one to two 
sentences. Neatly laid down on the page opposite the half title is a 
Shaw Compliments card with the following in Shaw's hand dated 18 April 
1941 and SIGNED with his initials: "My secretary will return the 
picture/My signature is just above Laura Knight's." Owner name on verso 
of front endpaper. Some fraying of spine edges with neat repairs. Very 
Good. (#013112) $2,500.00

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