Oxford University Press, 1945, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, Reprint
preface and Postscript by author. Dark blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed publisher's logo and decoration to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Blue coloured tint to the top text block edge. Plain text dustwrapper with black coloured background with green and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The publisher asked the author to choose from his body of endeavour a work to be the 500th book in the "The World's Classics" series. He chose Back to Methuselah, A play written just after World War I, 1921, where its deeply conservative author contended that, though, politicians reached an age to be proficient at golf and bridge, the ability to oversee a modern civilisation is quite beyond them. This play looks at this conundrum. The World's Classics series 500. Softening to the backstrip with rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges. There is a printing fold to the front cover with a "crease". A small white mark to the same panel where the verso of the dustwrapper has become a little stuck. Bumping to the top book edges along with some flecking. Light browning to the textblock edges and pages. Offset tanning, browning and very faint foxing to the end papers. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. Numerous chips and small pairs to the top dustwrapper edge with creasing to the dustwrapper panels. Sunning to the dustwrapper of panels along with rubbing. Revised Edition. Size: 16mo - up to 6 ¾" tall - Sextodecimo. [4], V - LXXXVII, [1], 300 pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Britain/UK; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Inventory No: 0115527.
preface and Postscript by author. Dark blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed publisher's logo and decoration to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Blue coloured tint to the top text block edge. Plain text dustwrapper with black coloured background with green and black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The publisher asked the author to choose from his body of endeavour a work to be the 500th book in the "The World's Classics" series. He chose Back to Methuselah, A play written just after World War I, 1921, where its deeply conservative author contended that, though, politicians reached an age to be proficient at golf and bridge, the ability to oversee a modern civilisation is quite beyond them. This play looks at this conundrum. The World's Classics series 500. Softening to the backstrip with rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges. There is a printing fold to the front cover with a "crease". A small white mark to the same panel where the verso of the dustwrapper has become a little stuck. Bumping to the top book edges along with some flecking. Light browning to the textblock edges and pages. Offset tanning, browning and very faint foxing to the end papers. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. Numerous chips and small pairs to the top dustwrapper edge with creasing to the dustwrapper panels. Sunning to the dustwrapper of panels along with rubbing. Revised Edition. Size: 16mo - up to 6 ¾" tall - Sextodecimo. [4], V - LXXXVII, [1], 300 pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Britain/UK; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Inventory No: 0115527.