Author: CALDWELL, TAYLOR
Title: The Balance Wheel
Description: Chicago, IL: People's Book Club, 1951. Book Club Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition . There is some light bumping and fraying to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are bug poo trails to the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket has noticeable bug nibbled patches, especially to the flap joints and the rear spine joint. The rear dust jacket flap has detatched, but is still present. "Pennsylvania, 1913. The four Wittmann brothers manufacture steel precision tools. Jochen (Joe) is a ruthless businessman who seeks to improve the bottom line at any cost. Friedrich (Fred) dabbles in Socialism but would never sacrifice his dividends. Wilhelm (Willie) prefers to collect art rather than visit the factory floor. Only Karl (Charles) , a widower, has the vision to keep the family business in the black. Now, as the winds of war sweep across Europe, anti-German sentiment turns the family's allies against them, and war profiteers threaten to remake the entire steel industry into a merchant of death. But Charles's greatest worry is that his son will be shipped overseas to die. " (from FantasticFiction).. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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