Publication: Metropolis

Publication: MetropolisPublication Record # 211273
Author: Thea von Harbou
Date: 1927-00-00
Publisher: Readers Library Pub. Co.
Price:
2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 250
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: NOVEL
Cover: Metropolis by Aubrey Hammond
Notes:
- First English language edition.
- Small hc publication: 6.7" x 4"
- Stated "Copyright edition" distinguishes it from later printings. This first printing has no mention of "Metropolis" in the list of books at the end or on the dust-jacket rear flap, as do later printings.
- Includes a 3-page "Editor's Note" about the book, uncredited except as "The Editor".
- Dust jacket and hc cover shown in photo here.
- No price listed, taken from Tuck.
External IDs:
- Bleiler Early Years: 1040
- FantLab: 107118
- OCLC/WorldCat: 7318111
- Reginald-1: 14733

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Metropolis • novelization • [Metropolis] • novel by Thea von Harbou (trans. of Metropolis 1926)

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