Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological PentateuchPublication Record # 309870
Author: Bernard Shaw
Date: 1921-06-23
Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
Price:
10/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: xci+267
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- 1st UK ed.
- Bleiler, below, describes this as a single long play. British Library agrees (BL, below).
- Publication date is from "Shaw Wants Man to Live 1,000 Years", NY Times 1921-06-23 p8, a review by special cable to the NYT: "London, June 22.--A new gospel of longevity by George Bernard Shaw will be published tomorrow by Messrs. Constable. ..."
- Price is from the earliest notice found in UK newspapers and magazines, listing in a same-day advertisement by retailer Wm. Blackwood & Sons, The Scotsman 1921-06-23 p2.
- HathiTrust Digital Library catalog record provides full view of one copy (and several copies of the 1921 US edition, "Similar items"). The title page design matches the 1st ed. (Brentano's, May) in its unusual display of the title and credit on three lines (quote): Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Penta- teuch. By Bernard Shaw.
- Page numbers are from the list of Contents, p.lxxxix, where all five parts are listed with subtitles such as "As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920".
External IDs:
- BL: 003359726
- Bleiler Early Years: 2003
- LCCN: 45-52914
- OCLC/WorldCat: 299794

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Collection Title: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch • (1921) • collection by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]

Contents (view Concise Listing)

vii • Preface: The Infidel Half Century • (1921) • essay by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
1 • In the Beginning • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
35 • The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
91 • The Thing Happens • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
139 • Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
207 • As Far As Thought Can Reach • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Bleiler Early Years	Verified	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Bleiler Supernatural	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Bleiler1 (Gernsback)	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Bleiler78	Verified	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Clute/Grant	Verified	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Clute/Nicholls	Verified	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Contento1 (anth/coll)	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Currey	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Locus1	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Miller/Contento	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Reginald1	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Reginald3	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36
Tuck	N/A	Rtrace	2018-11-28 21:54:36

Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

Secondary Verifications