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Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928 Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second printing July 1928. Some edge wear and soiling to blue cloth hardcover. Owner stamps and numerous date stamps on front end papers. Owner stamp on rear end paper, and front flap of dust jacket pasted to inside rear cover. Otherwise a solid, unmarked book. 245 pp. .

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1928. First edition, first printing hardcover with printed front board, no dust jacket, in good condition for its age. Front board and spine are sunned and foxed. Face block face and foot are rough cut, and tanned, foxed and blemished. Pastedowns are also lightly tanned and foxed. A few light spots of foxing noted on a few of the pages. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928. First edition. [viii], 188 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Maroon cloth gilt. Fine copy in the scarce printed dust jacket (some toning to spine panel). First edition. [viii], 188 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes the dystopian tale, 'The Machine Stops'. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops" is a picture of a hyper-connected world - where mediated or virtual communication has replaced direct personal contact. First published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in 1909, Forster intended it "as a counter-blast to one of the heavens of H. G. Wells.". Kirkpatrick A13a; Negley, Utopian Literature, 378; Wessells 20