Kafka Franz Karl Frederick (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B/w (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 810 clean, unmarked pages/index; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; maps on end papers.

Condition: Good. Bargain book!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. Date on the title page. First Printing. Note that the subtitle appears on the dustjacket cover only. Frontispiece, Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, Epilogue, Notes, Index; xix, 810 pages. A separate section of black-and-white illustrations [16 pages, unpaginated]; colored maps as endpapers. The black boards are in fine shape, with gilt lettering on the black cloth spine as bright as if just issued. The interior is fresh, crisp, and completely clean; indeed, I am convinced my father must have had a second copy, for this one seems unread. The original pictorial dustjacket is unclipped ($40.00), showing hardly any wear. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] "Kafka is our poet of ordinary madness. He enters into the seams between the conscious and the unconscious; a cubist, a surrealist, an expressionist, a turning and twisting realist. § Kafka knew that individual free will, the bedrock of an egalitarian society, was an illusion we profoundly protect to preserve our sanity; just beyond, however, is uncertainty. . . ."---from the Preface. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking. Please note that, due to COVID, overseas shipping may incur unusual delays.