BACK TO METHUSELAH
by Shaw, Bernard
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1921. A Metabiological Pentateuch. London: Constable and Company, 1921. Original olive green cloth, with dust jacket.
First English Edition of one of Shaw's best-known plays, beginning in the Garden of Eden and culminating in A.D. 31,920 ("as far as thought can reach"). Brentano's edition in New York was issued about three weeks earlier. This is a fine copy in an unsoiled, near-fine jacket (a couple of short tears at the end of folds). Laurence A161b.
First English Edition of one of Shaw's best-known plays, beginning in the Garden of Eden and culminating in A.D. 31,920 ("as far as thought can reach"). Brentano's edition in New York was issued about three weeks earlier. This is a fine copy in an unsoiled, near-fine jacket (a couple of short tears at the end of folds). Laurence A161b.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7420
- Title
- BACK TO METHUSELAH
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
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Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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