![[Japanese characters:] Metoroporisu / Tonogata wa kimpatsu ga o-suki [Metropolis / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes].](/jacket/500x500/2900000677081.jpg)
Publication details: Tokyo: Kaizosha,1928,]
Rare Book
The film version by Fritz Lang did not premiere in Japan until the following year, marking this the debut in that region of a work that would have a profound impact on Japanese popular culture. A scarce and significant edition, von Harbou's novel bound (as issued) with Anita Loos' 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.
FIRST JAPANESE EDITION, title-page with device and border in orange, frontispiece colour-printed film still with monochrome images to verso, 10 monochrome stills to the text, pp. [ii], 1-399, 401-560 [Gentlemen Prefer Blondes], 12mo, original maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a touch of rubbing to extremities, edges and free endpapers browned, a few faint spots to edges, good
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