Brod Max Afterword (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint Edition. In the New Classics series. Tan cloth with black type. Ding to top front corner, tanning to page ends with some abrasion/spotting to top anf front page ends. Faint moisture staining mostly to spine ends and a little carry over onto top and bottom of front hinge at endpapers. Solid binding. Jacket is well worn with a couple long tears and numerous chips, short tears and punctures. Some creasing and light soiling. Cover design by Alvin Lustig. NC10. Will be in jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1940 New Directions hardcover 1st US edition. Inscribed by Nathan Glazer to his sister-in-law Shirley Slotkin on the ffep in 1943. Octavo. xviii, 299 pp. No dj, outer spine was loose and has been reglued, with a glue stain and tears down both sides, soil on cover and edge, edges frayed, light tanning , else text clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Etting, Emlen (illustrator). First American Edition. New York:New Directions, 1940, Translated by Edwin Muir. Preface by Klaus Mann. Afterward by Max Brod. Illustrations by Emlen Etting. 8vo. Stated Printed October 1940 reverse of p. 299. Frontispiece. Blue cloth boards, paste-on brown background title with blue hand-lettering style bubble letters. Corners, boards faded around edges, spine faded (title legible) and frayed top and bottom. Foxing on endpapers. Previous owner last name on front endpaper. Pages off-color. No dust jacket. Very good.

In German. 17x20.5 cm. 125 pages. Hardcover. Includes plates in color. Cover slightly stained. Pages yellowed. Otherwise, in good condition. The book is in : German.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: New Directions, 1946. Reprint. Octavo (18cm); 278pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $1.50 price intact; boards bound in gray cloth with navy stamping to spine. Dust jacket toned with significant bumping; chips and tears abundant at corners, spine ends, and along edges, though text remains untouched. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets lightly toned; interior pages clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket. A reissue of Kafka's 1940 novel by the same publisher responsible for the American first edition. This version, in a dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig, was part of New Directions' New Classics series. Translated by Edwin Muir with a preface by Klaus Mann, son of Thomas Mann. Afterword by Max Brod, close friend of Kafka who defied the author's wishes by publishing the author's unpublished manuscripts after his death including Amerika.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition in English. First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. xii, 300, [4 (publisher's adverts)]. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge stained yellow. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with an Introductory Note by Edwin Muir and an Afterword by Kafka's friend and literary executor, Max Brod. First English-language edition, first issue with title stamped in gilt. Minor soiling to boards, a trifle rubbed to spine ends, some water staining to top edge and prelims. at rear, discreet bookseller's sticker to lower board, else Very Good. The third in the author's "Trilogie der Einsamkeit" [Trilogy of Loneliness], according to Brod, to be published, yet the first to be penned. Also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, it was originally issued in 1927 by Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich. It is thought to have been inspired by the apocryphal story of one of Kafka's cousins who at the tender age of sixteen was shipped off to America, after impregnating the family maid. In Kafka's version of events, seventeen-year-old Karl Rossman leads a peripatetic life in the land of opportunity amid extremes of wealth and poverty with his innocence inviting constant exploitation. Though the author never visited the country, his picaresque tale does capture the very 'idea' of America in its uncanny depiction of an ever-changing landscape of oversized constructs, peopled by inhabitants in thrall to speed and technology. The uncompleted manuscript comes full circle with the classic Kafka trope of the scorned individual pleading his innocence in front of remote and mysterious figures of authority. [Mellown D32] 545.

Hardback. Condition: Near fine. No jacket. First edition in English. First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. xii, 300, [4 (publisher's adverts)]. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in black to spine. Top edge stained yellow. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with an Introductory Note by Edwin Muir and an Afterword by Kafka's friend and literary executor, Max Brod. First English-language edition, the presumed second issue with title stamped in black. The third in the author's "Trilogie der Einsamkeit" [Trilogy of Loneliness], according to Brod, to be published, yet the first to be penned. Also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared, it was originally issued in 1927 by Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich. It is thought to have been inspired by the apocryphal story of one of Kafka's cousins who at the tender age of sixteen was shipped off to America, after impregnating the family maid. In Kafka's version of events, seventeen-year-old Karl Rossman leads a peripatetic life in the land of opportunity amid extremes of wealth and poverty with his innocence inviting constant exploitation. Though the author never visited the country, his picaresque tale does capture the very 'idea' of America in its uncanny depiction of an ever-changing landscape of oversized constructs, peopled by inhabitants in thrall to speed and technology. The uncompleted manuscript comes full circle with the classic Kafka trope of the scorned individual pleading his innocence in front of remote and mysterious figures of authority. [Mellown D32] 516.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 13.5 x 19.5 cm. Chip on right margin of cover. One of 100 copies on Marais. 14 x 19.7cm. OCLC Number: 865107060.