Kafka Franz Translated German Muir (8 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Definitive Edition. (Mystery, classic literature).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 159pp [1]. A collection of later allegories by Franz Kafka, first published in England in 1933. It is a revised edition if the translation made originally from the twenty-one pieces published in Berlin by Kiepenheuer Verlag in 1931. Condition: The book is in good condition, but with light scattered foxing to prelims and page edges.The dustwrapper is tanned to the spine, has spotted foxing to the rear and some light wear at the head of the spine.

298 pp, mint copy in limp illustrated wrappers. . With extra material by Wilkins & Kaiser.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Condition: Good. Minor edge and corner creases. Small surface tears to back cover. Age toned. Size: 7 x 4.5 inches / 18 x 11 cm. 298 pages. Weight: 195g.

Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 200 pp. Tiny ink name to the front free end paper 'John Lynn | Ryan?'. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with darkening of the cream paper down the spine, not price clipped, 8s 6d. and without any tears or chips. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A 12mo of 7-1/2 inches in blue cloth; NO dust jacket. Ex-Libris bookplate to front pastedown of Shakespeare and Company / Sylvia Beach / Paris, below which is stamped in red "Annule," First English edition of any Kafka novel. Gilt titles still clear to front board and spine. Eight-page translator's Introductory Note begins "Franz Kafka's name, so far as I can discover, is almost unknown to English readers," and concludes with the publisher's note that "A translation of Kafka's novel 'The Trial' is in preparation and will be published shortly." 440 pp., followed by a 9-page "Additional Note" by Kafka's patron, Max Brod (1884-1968), the German-speaking Czech (later Israeli) author, composer, and journalist, who (though prolific in his own right) is now most famous as Kafka's friend and biographer. It was as Kafka's literary executor that Brod made his boldest decision, refusing to follow the writer's instructions to burn his life's work. He published them instead. Without Brod, Kafka would be unknown. The "Additional Note" here includes some brief deleted passages and explains why this posthumous novel ends where it does, as well as detailing what the author had told Brod about how the final chapter would have ended, had Kafka lived to complete it. (With this volume and some Garet Garretts, we begin to offer a few books from our private collection, even as we purge some lower-value titles.).

First Edition of this collection. Spine darkened and lettering dull, otherwise a nice copy; some foxing of preliminaries and end-leaves, neat ownership inscription on front paste-down end-paper.

1986, London, Penguin Books, Penguin Modern Classics, 298 paginas, 18x11, cubiertas en tapa blanda ilustrada, 200 gramos, buen estado.