Title: In the Beginning

Title: In the Beginning Title Record # 2473185
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date: 1921-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Language: English

Note: Part I of the "Pentateuch", or sequence of five plays (always published together and sometimes considered one) that follows the long Preface in the collection Back to Methusaleh. In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) The 1921 Brentano's (US, May) and Constable (UK, June) first editions/printings identically use the long variant title only in the "Contents" list of the five plays, at the end of the Preface. They show the short title alone at the head of this play, whose preceding title page displays three lines: Part I In the Beginning XXXII The US edition also uses the short title of the play as its running header, rather than "Back to Methuselah" as for the Preface. (both publications viewed at HathiTrust)

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unknown	In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) [as by Bernard Shaw]
1921	In the Beginning [as by Bernard Shaw]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch	1921-05-00	Bernard Shaw	Brentano's		$2.25^?$: US dollar	ciii+ 300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch	1921-06-23	Bernard Shaw	Constable & Co. Ltd.		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).	xci+ 267	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch	1934-03-00	Bernard Shaw	Dodd, Mead & Co.			ciii+ 300	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
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

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