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George Bernard Shaw. Back to Methuselah. Brentano's, 1921.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good hardcover. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Pages are toned due to age. Spine has damage.

Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah. Brentano's, New York, 1921.

Price: US$11.75 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Business in the Pacific Northwest*

Seller: Rosario Beach Rare Books, Mill Creek, WA, U.S.A.

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah. Brentano's, 1921, 1921.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1st U.S. edition Fair condition (the book is cocked, and the back board is still attached but very loose; there are also the remains of what may be a library sticker on the front free endpaper)

Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

George Bernard Shaw. BACK TO METHUSELAH. A METABIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH. NY: Brentano's, 1921.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch. Brentano's, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1921.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Brentano's, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1921. Sixth (6th) Printing (December, 1921) of First (1st) Edition. First Printing was in May, 1921. Note that this work was published simultaneously by Constable in London and Brentano's in New York. Near Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, off-white, tight, straight and square with a light green topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full green cloth with sporadic loss of color, paper paste-on title, etc., to spine, and all corners square. No Dust Jacket. See photos. ci + 300 pages. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". The work consists of a preface (The Infidel Half Century) of 101 pages, followed by five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920. They were first performed in New York City in 1922. Some have called this a work of science fiction.

Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.

George Bernard Shaw. Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Penteuch. Brentano's, 1921.

Price: US$22.57 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 300pp. Some foxing throughout. The back-strip is missing, o/w the binding is tight. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch. Brentano's, New York, 1921.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 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."

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methusaleh. Brentano's, New York, 1921.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York: Brentano's, 1921. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition of one of Shaw's greatest plays. Beginning in the Garden of Eden in 4004 B.C. (Bishop Usher's reckoning of the age of the world), it stretches "As far as Thought can reach" - about 32,000 years. The great Irish playwright is prolix, but manages to pull it off in a mere 300 pages. Green cloth binding, showing mild wear, with a darkened spine. "Methuselah" on the paper spine label has faded but is readable. Contemporary (1921) previous-owner signature on FFEP. Clean text, mildly foxed here and there, particularly on the endpapers. No dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.

SHAW, (George) Bernard.. Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch.. London, (Clark, Edinburgh, for) Constable & Company, 1921.

Price: US$891.36 + shipping

Description: XCI, 267 pp. 8vo. Half dark blue morocco, spine in 6 compartments with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, lower edge partly uncut (by Riviere & son). London, (Clark, Edinburgh, for) Constable & Company, 1921. First English edition, the American edition published by Brentano was issued shortly before. Shaw's ( 1856-1950) play was first produced at the Garrick Theatre in New York in 1922, the first English performance was given in Birmingham in 1923. "Back to Methuselah" consists of five parts, in fact individual dramas, entitled: At the Beginning: 4004 B.C.; The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day; The Thing Happens, A.D. 2170; Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000; and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31920. The cycle is considered Shaw's main philosophical work, interpreting the history of mankind from the Garden of Eden to the present, with visions of things to come in the far future. It is based on ideas of Lamarck, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Bergson. If the play lacks in action, it certainly shows convincing originality of thought. - KNLL XV, 368. LITERATURE: ENGLISH ;

Seller: Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat, Zurich, Switzerland

Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch.. Constable and Company, Ltd, London, 1921.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this collection of plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To H.S.S from G.B.S 22nd June 1921." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. Rare in the original dust jacket and inscribed. These plays were written during 1918 to 1920 and published by Constable (London) and Brentano's (New York) in 1921. They were first performed in 1922 by the New York Theatre Guild at the old Garrick Theatre in New York City and, in Britain, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1923.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.