Zodiak
1931rif. 15861New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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