Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First Gregg Press edition. Text offset from the 1919 edition. New introduction by Edward Hoch. Includes twelve pages of stills from the Boston Blackie films.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1928. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi 1-261 [262; ad, 263-266; publishers catalog], frontispiece and seven inserted plates, original green cloth stamped in black. First edition. Photoplay edition, which is also the first edition, with stills from the famous 1927 MGM film starring Lon Chaney. This is a 'lost film', no known print of this film exists. Novelization of the Tod Browning screenplay.

Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., [1926]. Octavo, 3 volumes, each volume containing four inserted plates with eight film stills (all the same), original pictorial wrappers. First, second and third printings of the German photoplay edition. The first three printings of the German photoplay edition. The first printing has the Willy Reimann illustration of Metropolis (depicting a futuristic megalopolis). The second and third printings use the now iconic Werner Graul illustration. The books are accompanied by a card inscribed and signed by director Fritz Lang: "Greetings / from / METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang" and the rare German advertising herald for the film (we have seen only one other copy offered for sale). METROPOLIS is a novelization of the screenplay written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou of the 1926 UFA film. "Though often described as the first SF epic of the cinema, this famous German film -- of which no complete version now exists -- has just as much in common with the cinema of the Gothic. Though set in a future visually emphasized by towering buildings and vast brooding machines, the city of Metropolis has an underworld dark and medieval in atmosphere ... The story of METROPOLIS is trite and its politics ludicrously simplistic; but these flaws cannot detract from the sheer visual power of the film -- a combination of the high Expressionistic sets (the work of art directors Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht) and Lang's direction ... METROPOLIS, which was extremely expensive and not a financial success, almost bankrupted the studio that made it (UFA). The film was cut almost as soon as it was released, and -- still in the 1920s -- shortened yet more radically in the UK and USA. Even recently restored archival versions are half an hour shorter than the original." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 804-5. The dark dystopian vision of the future city continues influence film today in such examples as BLADE RUNNER and DARK CITY. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-23; (1981) 2-112; (1987) 2-123 and (1995) 2-132. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1040. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, pp. 126-37; 139-42. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 198. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1383-86. Bloch (2002) 1370. Nagl, p. 256.

London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [1928]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-10 [11] 12-252 [253: ad] [254: blank] [Note: pagination starts with front paste down and ends with rear free end paper], eight film stills on four inserted plates, original decorated maroon boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition in English. The 1928 silent thriller Spies (Spione), a UFA production, was directed by Fritz Lang, his first film after Metropolis. An under appreciated film production which was adapted from by his wife from her story. The film starred Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus.

New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First trade hardcover edition. Preceded by the Ballantine paperback original published in 1976, and the Science Fiction Book Club edition hardcover. Novelization of the feature film directed by George Lucas. With photos from the motion picture.

London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The final issue. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Sydney Horler, Margery Allingham, Peter Cheyney, and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized magazine. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Algernon Blackwood, Sydney Horler and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Peter Cheyney, F. Tennyson Jesse and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Margery Allingham, Peter Cheyney, G.D.H. & M. Cole, Sydney Horler and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1953. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Graham Greene and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [c.1929]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Photoplay edition with eight stills from the 1929 motion picture, once a "lost picture", a print now survives, but with no soundtrack. Copyright page is the information from the Boni & Liveright editions, no statement of Grosset printing (though stated third Boni & Liveright edition, this is does not pertain to this edition as a Boni & Liveright third printing exists, this edition most likely used the plates from the last Boni edition).

Chicago: Black Horse Press, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of two published. Features stories by Frank Kane (Johnny Liddell), Paul Marcus and Edward Ronns (pseudonym for Edward Aarons). Another interesting start which suffered poor distribution. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 464.