Berge, Meere und Giganten

Berlin: S. Fischer, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 588 (2)pp. Original quarter cloth over blue paper-covered boards with re lettering on cover and spine. Red top edge. Science Fiction novel deemed an expressionistic Utopia warning against the naive belief in progress. The novel is set in a technologically highly developed industrial society reaching as far as into the 27th century. Döblin emigrated to Zurich in 1933 and spent most of his time in exile in Switzerland and the USA. He best know for his novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz." Text in German, Gothic script. Binding rubbed and age-toned, bumped at corners. Ex Libris on front endpaper and opposite half-title. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ condition. (Inventory #: 35305)