The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God. London: Constable & Company, 1932. First Edition. Pp 74. Pictorial paper boards, illustrated endpapers. Boards a little worn along spine hinges, otherwise a nice bright copy, issued without a dust jacket.

Designed and illustrated with engravings by John Farleigh.

Loosely inserted is a printed card bearing George Bernard Shaw’s standard reply to autograph hunters. It reads in part: ‘It may interest collectors of autographs to know that Mr. Bernard Shaw does not regard requests by strangers for his signature as legitimate collection.. Below this, a typed annotation adds: “However, she [Shaw’s secretary] occasionally obliges.”   Appended to the card is a clipped specimen of Shaw’s autograph, taken from a document.

Altogether, it forms a delightfully quirky example of Shaw’s characteristic wit.