KAISER, Georg; Hermann Scheffauer, trans.

Gas: A Play in Five Acts

Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. Inc., 1924. First American Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth, blue printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, cream dust jacket printed in brown; 96pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit darkened, ownership signature of a J.F. Foster to front pastedown. Fine/Near Fine. Second in the author's "Gas" trilogy, preceded by The Coral and followed by Gas II. Here a great explosion errupts in a factory, leaving the business in ruins, a metaphor for the effect of World War I on Germany. See Ernst Schurer, German Expressionist Plays, pp. xvi-xviii.

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