Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch).
de FARLEIGH, John (illustrator). George Bernard SHAW (author)
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1939. New York: The Limited Editions Club. 1939. Imperial 8vo. Original pale green cloth, gilt lettered leather labels to both spine and upper cover, top edges green, in the publisher's slipcase; pp. lvi + [iv], [3]-260; with fine wood-engravings by John Farleigh, some full-page; an unusually good, clean and attractive copy with mild sun-lightening to spine, internally fine with the handsome pictorial bookplate of Amy and Arthur Fields to inner upper cover, in a very good and sound slipcase with some uniform fading to spine. First edition with these illustrations: one of 1500 numbered copies signed by John Farleigh. With a preface by Shaw. (Laurence A232 and A161c).
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- Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch).
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- FARLEIGH, John (illustrator). George Bernard SHAW (author)
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