The Machine-Wreckers A Drama of the English Luddites in a Prologue and Five Acts
by Toller, Ernst (Ashley Dukes, Trans)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
NY. NY: Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Decorated paper-covered boards, chipped paper spine label with author and title readable, rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Owner's name and bookplate on pastedowns. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. No foxing. . A play about the Luddites, an English social movement that protested the Industrial Revolution by destroying the new machines that were stealing their jobs. An Appendix gives the speech by Lord Byron to the House of Lords on the Second Reading of the Frame-Work Bill, in which he spoke passionately about the effects the new machines were having on the poor. A solid, attractive copy of the first edition. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 113 pages. M6 .
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- Bookseller
- Sweet Beagle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24720
- Title
- The Machine-Wreckers A Drama of the English Luddites in a Prologue and Five Acts
- Author
- Toller, Ernst (Ashley Dukes, Trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY. NY
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Luddites, Industrial Revolution, Social Movements, Theatre Play Drama
- Bookseller catalogs
- Culture and Society; Entertainment / General;
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