The Adding Machine

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. With a foreweord by Philip Moeller. 143pp., black and white photographs. sm. 8vo. Bright orange cloth with black titles on front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown page, minor finger-soiling on covers, spine slightly darkened; overall a near… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare signed first edition of socialist, Piulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, inscribed on the ffe: "to Leonard L. Hess E. L. R. July 1923". Hess was a NYC author, whose short stories appeared in the American Mercury, Harper's Weekly, The Bookman and The Saturday Review mid-1920s-early 1930s. Rice was one of… Read more about this item

THE ADDING MACHINE, S. French, 1929, fine in vg+ dust-wrapper with some light dust-soil. A drama ( acclaimed to be the outstanding example of native Expressionism ) about a hard working clerk who dreams of happiness on earth but attains it only after his death. 

Doubleday, Page, 1923. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. In orange cloth. 1923 on title page and copyright page. .