Gallery - Unknown Czech avant-garde typo
Harbou Thea
Metropolis
Rare 1st Czech edition !!
A.Sveceny Praha 1927
covers signed EF 27 /Em.Frinta/
65 b/w photos of the film Metropolis by F.Lang
translated by Marie Dolejsi
238 pp., 8 numbers / 8 x orig.wrappers 8°
23 x 15,5 cm
The edition in numbers is very rare.
Film premiere of the expressionistic cultic film Metropolis was held in Berlin on January 27th 1927. This first Czech printing was published in the same year and contains 65 b/w photos, which is an unique.
condition: covers of first and last issue with traces of using - frayed edges and 1st vol.sun-bleached with missing part of upper corner /photos available/, otherwise very well preserved
