Price: £1,750
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1928]
Stock Number: 67708
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[Japanese characters:] Metoroporisu... - (Metropolis.) VON HARBOU (Thea) / Anita Loos.
[Translated by Hata Toyokichi.] [World Literature, 15.]
Description: 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, goodPublication Details: Tokyo: Kaizosha, 1928]
Notes: 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'.
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