The Melting Pot: Drama in Four Acts by Zangwill, Israel - 1917

New York.: Macmillan.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1917. Hardcover. 12mo - 18.5 x 12 cm.; ix - 215 - (15) pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt lettering stamped within blind stamped decorative panels on the front board. First published in 1909, revised in 1914, this is the fifth printing of the revised edition. Cast list for the first American performance (Columbia Theatre in Washington, October of 1908) and the first British performance (Court Theatre in London, January of 1914) on page ix of the preliminary section. Five appendices: "The Melting Pot in Action", "The Pogrom", "The Story of Daniel Melsa", "Beilis and America", "The Alien in the Melting Pot". Eighteen page afterword by the author dated January of 1914. Six pages of publisher's adverts at the back. Previous owner's name on the front paste down end paper. The externals show mild wear to the fore corners and spine tips. The interior is clean and the binding is tight. .