(New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1933).

FIRST EDITION GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. The title story is a satirical allegory relating the experiences of an African girl, freshly converted to Christianity, who takes literally the biblical injunction to "Seek and you shall find me" and attempts to find and actually speak to God. The story outraged the religious public, and remains his most controversial work.
Farleigh's wood-engraved illustrations, titlepage and endpapers are very striking, but they too caused controversy due to the religious, sexual and racial themes.
George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, a ceremony at which the spokesman presented Shaw’s prize with winged words, “for his work which was marked by both idealism and humanity.”. Item #34412

First American edition. With 17 woodcut illustrations by John Farleigh, most being either full or half page, and with Farleigh's woodcut titlepage and endpapers. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in white on upper cover and spine. 75 pp. An attractive copy, the textblock and illustrations clean and fresh, the binding lightly mellowed and with some very minor wear.