Walther Eidlitz Eric Sutton (6 results)

First British edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board, without the scarce dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, the cloth marked and toned to the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's signature to the half title, a small bookseller's ticket to the rear pastedown are a little spotted throughout and darkened to the closed text block edge. The story of a Greek peasant who embraces the machine age but becomes disillusioned with technical progress and its use for war. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. stated first edition, no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [nice solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge, internally clean; jacket is edgeworn, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, faint dampstain near top of front panel, nearly split along rear foldover, still quite attractive]. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee, introduced to the wonders of modern machinery, works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant, and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship (the "Zodiak") operated by the Militant Anti-God League, which (of course!) takes its marching, er, flying orders straight from Moscow, and whose mission, he discovers, is to blanket the world with Communist propaganda leaflets and thereby lay the groundwork for a World Revolution. The book appears to be chock-full of mystical symbolism and stuff (check the signs of the Zodiac on the jacket spine), and in its closing pages the author quotes that well-known mystic Henry Ford: "Shall we not some day reach a point where the machine is becomes all powerful and the man of no consequence?" Shall we not, indeed?

Decorative Cloth. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NVG. First Edition. Book has light soiling. Dj has edgewear and discoloration due to light soiling and age. A nice copy. Book.

Condition: Very Good. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1931. First American Edition, stated, with I-F publisher's code (September 1931). Octavo; [xii], 328pp. Beige cloth-covered boards with red and gray lettering and decoration. Missing dust jacket. Boards are square, with some smudging and scuffing to cloth. Spine a bit darkened, with nudging at head and tail. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. [REGINALD-1 04723].

First Edition. A contemporary review of this work states: "Machinery, and the spell which it throws over the minds of people today, forms the chief source of interest in "Zodiak." The protagonist of the novel, fascinated by modern engineering is ultimately repulsed by its use in creating machines of war, including a giant Russian airplane, Zodiak, which spreads Communist propaganda. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some nicks and wear at top spine end, tiny abrasion at rear panel.