ISBN: 9780804424844 - The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; Just cover has tear from sticker but book was unreadPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Book. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 263pp. Red cloth hardback, DJ has small chips and tears along edges, price clipped, abridged edition, Satirical play about the First World War, translated from the German.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in jacket, 263 pages, book is solid overall. Light reading wear to pages; very slight slant of spine. Some rubbing to the jacket; few small chips, tears along edges and corners; some limited soiling to the mostly white area at back of jacket. H3.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Cover and spine are lightly worn along edges. Spine is rubbed Top corners of pages xvii, 3, and 25 are creased. Light ink markings in the margins of pages xii and xiii, but all other pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Near Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has a slight skew to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends, a touch of wear to the cover edges and corners, a spot of soiling to the tail of the spine, staining to the fore edge of the text block, and some glue residue to the head of the text block. Overall, a Near Very Good copy in a like, clipped dust jacket, which has chipped bumps to the spine ends and cover corners with closed tears to the hinges, wear with chips to the edges, a 1.5" tear to the head of the back, rubbing with light smudging to the covers, and a closed tear to the upper portion of the spine that does not affect the title or author name. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to edges of covers; age tanned; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; Translated from the German by Alexander Gode and Sue Ellen Wright; Krauss iconic WWI drama is a satirical indictment of the glory of war. Presented here in English for the first time, in an abridged version that preserves the essence of the 800-page original. Its influence on Brecht, Ionesco, and other playwrights is acknowledged. Mingling actual quotations, news reports, and government orders with Kraus's own satiric dialogue, this immense drama (never meant to be performed) offers a vast fresco of events at the front and at home during, as it prophesied, the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indeed, Kraus anticipated the development of atomic warfare and its threat to all mankind. …