First edition, first printing, 188 pages, black cloth with the spine lettered in red (upper cover unlettered), endpapers printed in red with dates, stories, characters, and a Future History timeline, original pictorial dust jacket priced $3.00 (Currey variant 2), listing 35 Gnome Press titles and with “At your favorite book store…” text on rear flap, The Gnome Press Inc. New York. The text pages are browned as usual, light foxing on the page edges, the jacket is lightly soiled with some minor fraying along the edges, a very good copy.
Copyright page: “An earlier version of this story was published copyright Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1941”, Library of Congress card number 58‑6984.
Currey (L.W.) Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of Their First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction – Revised Edition, page 192.
(https://gnomepress.com/69-methuselahs-children/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
'Bibliographically, Methuselah’s is the worst mess of all Gnome titles, a tangled skein of black thread swirling down a tiny drain in a crevice of an unlit cave, with only broken Waldoes available to feel through the wreckage. The record shows variants within variants and vaguely reported sightings of more variants which have seemingly never been imaged for independent verification. Even the standard references print and reprint confused and incorrect information.'
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (210 x 143 mm)
