Language: English
Published by Chapman & Dodd, London, UK, 1924
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First English Language Edition. Includes several illustrations. 96pp. Red cloth boards with black lettering and decoration. Red cloth boards with slight shelf-wear. Small white mark to upper board. Dust-spotting to page edges. Some foxing to various pages.
Published by Small, Maynard and Co. Inc, Boston, 1924
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First American Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth, blue printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, cream dust jacket printed in brown; 96pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit darkened, ownership signature of a J.F. Foster to front pastedown. Fine/Near Fine. Second in the author's "Gas" trilogy, preceded by The Coral and followed by Gas II. Here a great explosion errupts in a factory, leaving the business in ruins, a metaphor for the effect of World War I on Germany. See Ernst Schurer, German Expressionist Plays, pp. xvi-xviii.