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The adventures of the black girl in her search for God. / [Bernard Shaw]

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Van Pelt Library PR5365 .A4 1932
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Contributor:
Farleigh, John, 1900-1965.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Christianity.
Penn Provenance:
Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
74 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Manufacture:
Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited.
Place of Publication:
London : Constable & Company Limited, [1932]
Notes:
With half-title.
"First edition December 1932."
"Copyright George Bernard Shaw 1932."
"Written by Bernard Shaw. Designed and Engraved by John Farleigh. Printed by Clarks in Edinburgh, and published for the first time by Constable and Company Limited of Orange Street in London 1932."
Front cover has woodblock illustration on black paper boards, lettered in white. Black and white patterned endpapers.
In all copies of the first impression, the title "Genesis" in the headpiece on p. 59 is misspelled "Genises". It was not corrected until several printings later in England.--Cf. Laurence.
Cited in:
Laurence, D.H. Bernard Shaw: a bibliography, A210
OCLC:
30066293

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