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Title: Postscript: After Twentyfive Years (Back to Methuselah) Title Record # 2473200
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date: 1946-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
Note: Composed 1944, copyrighted 1945 As published by Penguin Books (undated 5th printing, below) the Postscript in that publication is signed "Ayot Saint Lawrence, 1944". 1946 newspaper coverage of The World's Classics #500 notes that Oxford University Press approached Shaw two years ago about issuing an edition as #500 in the series, in conjunction with his 90th birthday (July 1946). The postscript was written for this edition, the publisher notes concerning both its 1946 and 1947 editions.
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unknown Postscript: After Twentyfive Years (Back to Methuselah) [as by Bernard Shaw]
1946 Publication is not verified as "Postscript" rather than "After Twentyfive Years" or, probably on two lines unpunctuated, "Postscript: After Twentyfive Years".
Postscript (Back to Methuselah) [as by Bernard Shaw]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch 1946-07-00 Bernard Shaw Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #500)  
3/6?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).
lxxxvii+
300
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch 1947-03-00 Bernard Shaw Oxford University Press (The World's Classics #Galaxy Edition, 1)  
$1.50?$: US dollar
lxxiv+
261
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch date unknown Bernard Shaw Penguin Books 978-0-14-045014-9
£13.99?£: UK pound
319
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Felicity Roma-Bowers Checkmark
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