Berlin Alexanderplatz. Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf.
8vo. 1 blank f., (5), 12-528, (6) pp., final blank f. Original cloth with cover and spine title stamped in red, top edge red. Original dustjacket.
€ 3,000.00
First edition of the famous novel of the German metropolis. Includes the rare, well-preserved original dustjacket by George Salter: the revolutionary visual design combined Döblin's specially written blurb with seemingly naive elements of poster art and advertising, creating a collage of word and image that mirrors the author's artistic principle of montage. The potential customer is made a reader before he has even opened the book (cf. S. Fischer Verlag, Marbach cat. 396).
Dustjacket slightly soiled and creased, repaired. Front inner hinge split. From the estate of the Frankfurt lawyer Wilhelm A. Schaaf (1929-2015), a specialist in economic, commercial and insolvency law.
WG² 24. Huguet 63. Raabe/Hannich-B. 58. 23. Schauer II, 125 (ill.).
