THE IRON MAN AND THE TIN WOMAN - with other Such Futurities - A Book of Little Sketches of Today and Tomorrow

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (vi) 309 pp. The variant cover with Macmillan on the spine. Red cloth lettered in black and silver on the front panel; lettered in black on the spine. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; the front hinge is slightly loose near the bottom; the rear hinge is tight; both gutters are intact; no dustjacket. This collection contains: PICTURES OF THE BRIGHT TIME TO COME: The Iron Man and the Tin Woman; Further Progress in Specialization; When Social Regulation is Complete; Isn't It Just Wonderful; The Last of the Rubber Necks; Athletics for 1950; The Criminal Face; Astronomical Alarms. GREAT LIVES IN OUR MIDST: Memoirs of an Ice-Man; The Memoirs of a Night Watchman; Confessions of a Super-Extra-Criminal; The Life of J. Correspondence Smith; Eddie the Bartender; Janus and the Janitor; The Intimate Disclosures of a Wronged Woman. TODAY AND TOMORROW: Little Conversations of the Hour; Travel is So Broadening; Tommy and Milly at the Farm; Life's Little Inconsistencies; New Words - New Things; More Messages from Mars; Portents of the Future; Rural Ubanity. COLLEGE NOW AND COLLEGE THEN: All Up; Willie Nut Tries to Enter College; Graduation Day at the Barbers College; Correspondence Manual Number One. IN THE GOLF STREAM: The Golfomaniac; The Golfer's Pocket Guide; The Golf Season in Retrospect. FUTURITY IN FICTION: Long After Bedtime; The Newer Truthfulness; A Midsummer Detective Mystery; Little Lessons in Journalism; More Literary Scandals; Who Reads What; Overhauling the Encyclopedia; Jazzled Journalism; This Heart-to-Heart Stuff. ALSO: Forty Years of Billiards; The Hero of Home Week; Conversations I Can Do Without; Mr Chairman I Beg to Move; and Fifty Cents Worth..