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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. George Salter (illustrator). Modern Library Edition. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., circa 1967-1968 based on the following: dust jacket style in use 1961 - 1968; Binding Toledano Style 13, in use 1967 - 1969; Fujita endpapers in use 1967 - 1970.; printings from 1967 and after have a one-page biography at the end of the book plus a drawing of a courtroom scene on the title page, and these are present in this copy. Fine in a Very Good- Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full charcoal gray cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked Fujita endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is mostly intact with the original price ($2.45) intact on the front flap, but has a chip off the bottom of the rear panel, shows wear at the corners and folds, and has a spot of lost color on the front panel. See the photos. vi, 341, [i] pages, with an Appendix that includes The Unfinished Chapters, The Passages Deleted by the Author, and Postscripts by Max Brod. 4 7/8" x 7 1/4". The Definitive Edition, translated from the German Der Prozess, published posthumously in 1925, by Willa and Edwin Muir (1935) for Victor Gollancz and Knopf, now revised and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. Illustrated by George Salter. The novel is the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority, with the nature of the crime of which he is accused revealed neither to him nor to the reader. It has been called an example of dystopian fiction and absurdist fiction.