Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf [Berlin Alexanderplatz)

2nd UK edition, first published in German in 1929 under the title Berlin Alexanderplatz.  396pp.  Red cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  A nice bright and fresh copy with just a hint of spotting on text block edges, cloth slightly pushed at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original, light rubbed and slightly faded dust wrapper, cracked and rubbed on corners, sunned over spine, with tape repair to spine heel. Doblin's now classic European novel first published in 1929, just a couple of years before Doblin's works were banned in his native Germany and the author exiled.