SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. London: Constable, [1932]. 8vo, original pictorial black and white boards, crack in front outer joint, ends of spine and corners rubbed, black cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved illustrations by John Farleigh (after rough sketches by Shaw), PRESENTATION COPY TO MABEL SHAW, the missionary who inspired Shaw to write The Adventures of the Black Girl, with his inscription covering the half-title: "Dear Miss Shaw, On the eve of a voyage round the world on which I am taking your latest proofsheets to read I send you this story, for which you are really responsible, as it was you who set me thinking about the contact of black minds with white religions in the African forest which your descriptions brought so vividly before my imagination. To amuse myself, and connect the story in my mind with you, I have introduced a most outrageous caricature of an episode from real life which seemed to you tragic but made me laugh heartlessly. I should not have dared had I not been well out of reach of your Knobkerry. So now what do you think of the work you were guided to set going? G. Bernard Shaw. 14th Dec. 1932" (publication date was December 5). Laurence A210a. Shaw began this comic fable in South Africa in February 1932 while his wife Charlotte was recuperating from a car accident in which they were involved; he completed it in England that October. The book has no printed dedication, but this would be the leading candidate for the copy.