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Dance of the Machines
by O'Brien, Edward J
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Macaulay Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Full grey-blue cloth boards with silver lettering & decoration, under pictorial dust jacket designed by Louis Lozowick, 8-1/4" tall, 274 pp. Short split to endpapers at front hinge, dust jacket has light chipping to top edges and spine ends, split (no loss) at front joint. Still an attractive copy. In our modern world of AI-generated content, the opening of the dust jacket blurb is prescient: "American life has become so mechanized that even American art has become Robotized in the process. Everywhere the machine standardizes, while individual genius decays." Lozowick's industrial DJ showing three identical typists beneath a cog is a brilliant adaptation of the theme.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002425
- Title
- Dance of the Machines
- Author
- O'Brien, Edward J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macaulay Company
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Crooked House Books & Paper
Returns accepted if seller is contacted within 7 days of receipt. Buyer pays postage on returns unless merchandise received does not match original description. If paying with check or money order, payment must be received and verified before order can ship.
About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
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