Chicago: Century Publications, [1947]. Small octavo, two publicity photos and fifteen film stills, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Century Mysteries No. 37. Digest sized format. Photoplay edition. Novelization of the film SINGAPORE from the screenplay written by Seaton I. Miller and Robert Thoeren from an original story by Seaton I. Miller. Cover depicts Fred MacMurray and Ava Gardner. Stills from the film throughout. Hubin, p. 83.

New York: Abelard-Schuman Ltd., [1972]. Octavo, cloth. No statement of printing. First edition. The Ballantine Books paperback preceded this edition by a few months. A graphic recreation of the controversial 1971 film cut by cut, with dialogue placed in relation to the 700 stills. The film received the 1972 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation and the 1973 Japanese Seiun Award.

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 containing four inserted plates with eight film stills, all bound in their original wrappers. First, second and third photoplay editions. The three issues of the German photoplay editions. The first photoplay uses the artwork from the hardcover edition by Willy Reimann depicting a futuristic megalopolis, the second and third issues uses what has become the iconic Werner Graul illustration. Laid in to the second printing is a card signed by the film director Fritz Lang: "Greetings / from / METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang." Also laid in is the rare German advertising herald for the film (we have only seen one other appear in the market place). Anti-utopia set in a gigantic city in the year 2000 "where capitalists oppress a mass of proletarian helots." - Fisher, p. 128. A restitution fantasy in which a patriarchal order is ultimately reestablished. Another interpretation: a parable of psychic integration won after perilous conflict. The Fritz Lang movie adaptation had a mythic scale that would not be challenged -- "The Shape of Things to Come" aside -- for decades to come. New appreciation for the complexities of the film are presented today (2010) as a fully restored version has been put together with the location of a complete film from an archive in Argentina. The influence of Metropolis can still be seen today as it presented a dark vision of society in cities, a major influence on dystopian films of today such as Blade Runner. 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.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes Heinlein's novelette, "Destination Moon," his essay on the making of the George Pal film, reproduction of a 24-page illustrated promotional booklet, Facts About Destination Moon, and 13 full-page stills.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-249 [250: ad], original lime green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Novelization of the 1933 RKO feature film based on the work of Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. Illustrated with stills from the motion picture at the end papers.

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 G.D.H. & M. Cole, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham 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 G.D.H. & M. Cole, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Algernon Blackwood 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, Michael Innes, Margery Allingham, Ernest Bramah 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 George Simenon, Agatha Christie, Peter Cheyney, Leslie Charteris 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 G.D.H. & M. Cole, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.

Chicago: Century Publications, [1945]. Small octavo, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Century Mysteries No. 32. Digest sized format.

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).