TURMSTADT. ROMAN

by Hans Richter

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Leipzig: Ernst Keils Nachfolger August Scherl G.m.b.H., 1926 . Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-272 273 274: blank , original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained black. Second printing. Published around the same time as Thea von Harbou's METROPOLIS 1926 , Turnstadt is Richter's version of a city that eats men who have fallen victim to the Moloch machine. The city is modern, but soulless.

• Printing: later

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