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NY: Brentano's, 1921. FIFTH PRINTING. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Green cloth with paper spine label. Mild edge wear, covers clean and fresh, spines toned with label toned. Binding tight and text clean, bright, unmarked with PO's name on front pastedown and mild toning to endpapers. Drama. Stax.
BACK TO METHUSELAH. A METABIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH by Shaw, George Bernard - 1921
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London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1921. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-lxxxvii [lxxxviii] lxxxix [xc] xci [xcii] 1-267 [268: blank], original gray-green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First British edition. An ambitious play on "Creative Evolution." "The first and most remarkable of his three works of speculative drama ... In BACK TO METHUSELAH we encounter a vintage Shaw play as well as an important work of science fiction, and understand why Shaw's work has been influential in the genre." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 120-24. "One of the most influential images of the future evolution of man to be produced in the postwar years is to be found in George Bernard Shaw's play BACK TO METHUSELAH (1921)." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 262-63. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-137; (1981) 2-89; (1987) 2-98; (1995) 2-108; and (2004) II-987. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2003. Bloomfield, Imaginary Worlds, pp. 220-36. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1095-96. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy, pp. 15-26. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 98. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 176. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1569. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 169. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 74-77. Bleiler (1978), p. 178. Laurence A161b. A fine copy in fine printed dust jacket. (72801)
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London: Oxford University Press. [OUP]. G: in Good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 1945. Reprint. Blue hardback cloth cover. 150mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). lxxxvii, 300pp. .
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New York: Brentano's, 1921. Paperback. Fair. ciii, 300p. Softcover in original wrapper (Shaw's image on green front, rest of wrapper white with green print). 19cm. Wrapper split at front joint and also chipped and rather worn. Spine concave. Contents sound and clean. "Ready about May 25" on front flap and "Order Now" on back flap. Written in pencil on page facing title-page is "Review not to be released until after June 1st."
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Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939 (200 gram rate) front fold in flap of dust jacket is detached, some rubbing and creasing to dust jacket, short tear across at top, spine browned, 256pp, sewn binding . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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London: Constable, 1921.. 12mo. 267 pp. Very Good, Mustard Cloth, Dust Jacket with tears, minor losses, tape repairs, & sun-staining; boards with rubbing, stains, sun-fading, edge wear; some staining on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle, his bookplate inside cover. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.
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Constable, London., 1921. First U.K. edition (preceded by the U.S. edition). Octavo. pp xcii, 267. Small gift inscription on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good, slightly chipped and nicked dustwrapper with a tear along the fold of the front flap repaired on the reverse.
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Constable, London., 1921. First U.K. edition (preceded by the U.S. edition). Octavo. pp xcii, 267. Later binding for Hatchards of three quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt rules, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt.Fine.
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London: Constable & Co, 1921. First English edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pale green cloth, spine slightly darkened, copious pencilled notes by previous owner on endpapers, stamp of "Lillah McCarthy Productions Ltd." on flyleaf, and McCarthy's signature as "Lady Keeble", of Oxford. First English edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to Lillah McCarthy. Inscribed on the flyleaf to Lillah McCarthy, the prominent English actress of the 20's: "To Lillah / from G.B.S." Shaw was close personal and professional friend of McCarthy's and contributed a Foreword to her memoirs, MYSELF AND MY FRIENDS (1933). Laurence A161b
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