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Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch

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  • Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological PentateuchPublication Record # 694759
  • Author: Bernard Shaw
  • Date: 1947-03-00
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Pub. Series: The World's Classics
  • Pub. Series #: Galaxy Edition, 1
  • Price:
    $1.50?$: US dollar
  • Pages: lxxiv+261
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Notes:
    • Revised edition (that is, revised for The World's Classics #500, 1946) Size 19 cm (that is, larger than The World's Classics) See also the Publication Series record.
    • Publication date and price from listing in "Books Out Today", NY Herald Tribune 1947-03-27 p27. (Multiple dealers at ABEbooks and Amazon report December 1947. Another printing is possible, but none now reports an earlier month.)
    • Publication series name is from the front cover. One literary columnist reports "the new American World's Classics Galaxy edition" (so capitalized). One advertisement by the publisher, NY Times 1930-03-30 pBR32, displays the heading:   The first volume   to be published in the   WORLD'S CLASSICS   Galaxy EDITION
    • Preface title should be checked. Reports of its 1921 publication as "An Infidel Century", rather than "The", are known to be spurious.
    • Postscript title should be checked. "After Twentyfive Years"?
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