[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED First Edition of Marshall McLuhan's First Book THE MECHANICAL BRIDE, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $600 NET

McLUHAN, Herbert Marshall. THE MECHANICAL BRIDE: FOLKLORE OF INDUSTRIAL 
MAN. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., (1951). First Edition. Small 
thin folio, with numerous illustrations. His first book, INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED to Michael Flanders, English actor, broadcaster, and writer and 
performer of comic songs, with "most cordial good wishes." Very Good in 
a Good dustwrapper with a few tears and a one-inch chip at the base of 
the spine and another sizable chip at the bottom of the front panel.

Michael Flanders, confined to a wheelchair after contracting polio while 
serving in the Royal Navy, is best known for his two-man revue with 
Donald Swann, At The Drop of a Hat. (#002939)        $750.00

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