Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch.
by SHAW, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Brentano's. Fair with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. This 1922 reprint edition offers George Bernard Shaw's work, which consists of a series of five plays, as well as a lengthy preface. --- In full green cloth-covered boards, deckled fore-edge and titling on paper spine label. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, scattered discreet red pencilings, 2 inserted newsclips whose acidity has stained adjoining leaves (one is glued onto rear paste-down), a loose front cover and with fading to spine label; else a clean copy.; Small 8vo 7-1/2" - 8" tall; ci, 300 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79050
- Title
- Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch.
- Author
- SHAW, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Leaves
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....