Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz - SIGNED & Dated - 1930

Alfred Döblin，《Berlin Alexanderplatz》《Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf》，1930，S. Fischer Verlag，Berlin。21. bis 30. Auflage，装帧设计：Georg Salter，版权归S. Fischer Verlag A.-G.，Berlin，德国印刷。\n\nSigned and dated by Alfred Döblin in blue ink on a front blank leaf, 21 January 1931, two years before he fled Nazi Germany and his books were thrown onto the bonfires.\nBerlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Weimar Berlin: released convict Franz Biberkopf swears to go straight, only to be pulled back into a world of pimps, thieves and betrayal.\nDöblin's collage of street slang, adverts, news scraps, drinking songs and Bible verses made it Germany's answer to Joyce's Ulysses, later filmed by Fassbinder.\nPrinted in Fraktur, 528 pages, including the famous pictogram pages of Berlin's city departments as Franz enters the city.\n\nOriginal publisher's grey cloth with blue bands and red lettering after Georg Salter, without dust jacket. Please see all pictures for the overall condition.