METROPOLIS. ROMAN

by Thea von Harbou

$7,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., 1926 . Octavo, pp. 1-8 9-273 274 275: blank 276-280: ads , original four-color pictorial wrappers, all edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing. Anti-utopia set in a gigantic city in the year 2000 where capitalists oppress a mass of proletarian helots. - Fisher, p. 128. A restitution fantasy in which a patriarchal order is ultimately reestablished. The Fritz Lang movie

• Binding: Wrappers

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