Product Description
The Machine Stops by Wayland Smith (First Edition) Scarce A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners.
Minor foxing to fore-edge of text block, prelims, and occasionally to page margins.
Jacket front panel and flap-fold retained and lay loose inside front cover.
First published 1936, stated.
Black cloth with gilt lettering; top stain orange.
284 pp.
A futuristic setting in which all the mechanical workings of machines stop and frenzy ensues.
Front panel of jacket, spine title, and one flap-fold with summary neatly trimmed, loose, and laid in.
Wayland Smith is a pseudonym for Victor Bayley.
"Science fiction novel of a highly automated future - and the chaos which ensues when the machines break down.
" - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p.
202.
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