Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

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Overview:

Title: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
Author: Bernard Shaw
Year: 1921
Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
Price: 10/-
Pages: xci+267
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
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".