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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) Back to Methuselah , London: Humphrey Milford for the Oxford University Press, 1945, small 8°, revised edition, PRESENTATION COPY, half-title inscribed: "To Maurice Ernest. Longevity Specialist who is to make us live longer than Methuselah. G. Bernard Shaw, Ayot Saint Lawrence, 15th Sept. 1946" (portrait photograph attached with adhesive tape to front free endpaper, several clipped newspaper reviews of the novel tipped-in to rear endpapers and within the text), original blue cloth, dust-jacket (worn) -- R. F. MALONE. Patience Worth. Temtress , Dublin: Morris, [n.d], 8°, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in unknown hand on verso of half-title: "A little present for the Author of St. Joan from John Bull's other Island" with a further inscription by George Bernard Shaw: "handed on to Maurice Ernest. Specialist in Immortality, 15th Sep. 1947", original envelope front addressed by Bernard Shaw to Dr. Ernest tipped-in to rear pastedown (several clipped newspaper articles on Bernard Shaw tipped-in to endpapers), original boards. (2)