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SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD) The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO MABEL SHAW, Constable & Co., 1932
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SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)
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PRESENTATION COPY TO THE FEMALE MISSIONARY WHO INSPIRED THE BOOK. Mabel Shaw (1888–1973) was in her time the most renowned female missionary in Africa, founding the London Missionary Society's Girls' Boarding School in Mbereshi, Northern Rhodesia, and heading it from 1915 to 1940. Shaw began writing this comic fable in South Africa in February 1932 and he completed it in England that October. The lengthy inscription to Mabel Shaw - there is no printed dedication in the book - was written by G.B. Shaw nine days after publication, on the eve of his departure on another long trip.
Provenance: Christie's, 14 June 1995 ("Property from a New York Estate").





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