• Publication: Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological PentateuchPublication Record # 712950
• Author: Bernard Shaw
• Date: 1934-03-00
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
• Pages: ciii+300
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed., 12th printing This is the stated "Twelfth Printing, March, 1934" of the edition published by Brentano's, 1st printing May 1921 to 11th printing February 1929.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: The title page design matches the First Printing (Brentano's, May 1921) in its unusual display of the title and credit on three lines (quote):   Back to Methuselah. A   Metabiological Penta-   teuch. By Bernard Shaw. Copyright page lists the 12 printings and states two copyrights, (c)1921 and (c)1930 by Shaw. The matter of 1930 copyright is unknown. There is no mention of revisions or corrections. Except for the title leaf, the interior appears to be identical to those of the Brentano's printings, and the title leaf matches the Brentano's in design. (HathiTrust holds several of them, including the 1st and 11th from originals at Harvard U and Cornell U.)
  • The British publisher Constable & Co. had published a "Standard Edition" in 1931, which WorldCat library record OCLC 915693724 reports "Revised and repr". The 1921 and 1931 Constable editions differ in both roman- and arabic-number page counts, however.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3577054

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Preface: The Infidel Half Century • (1921) • essay by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
• 1 • In the Beginning • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
• 39 • The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
• 101 • The Thing Happens • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
• 155 • Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]
• 233 • As Far As Thought Can Reach • (1921) • short fiction by George Bernard Shaw [as by Bernard Shaw]