Diaries 1910 1913 1914 1923 by Franz Kafka Max Brod (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression from 1948 and 1949 respectively. Good with some fade to spine cloth where jackets darkened at spine. Jackets with some small nicks and chips at edges. Volume one has some bleed to front panel reverse, mainly visible from reverse side only. Board with correponding marks, but mild only.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Published in England 1948/1949. Two volumes with blue cloth over boards in good condition. General wear, fade, edge wear. Spines faded. Spine extremities with edge wear, discoloration, soft crease. Upper portion of front hinge on Vol. 1 worn. Some corners bumped, turned inward. Modest stickers to lower edge of front pastedown: Parker & Son, Ltd.English & Foreign Booksellers, 97 Broad Street, Oxford. Shadowing from sticker to front end paper. A few marks to endpapers and pastedowns. Foxing to text block edges. Relaxed binding at head. Dustjackets with varying degrees of wear, tanning, tearing, loss of paper. Vol. 1 DJ: fair, with large closed tear across width of spine and along front hinge, about 1 1/4" from top Vol 2 DJ: good minus, with open tear to spine. Images can be provided for your satisfaction.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first UK edition of the diaries of Franz Kafka from 1910 to 1923, providing a detailed look at the thoughts and character of the influential novelist. First UK edition. Complete in two volumes. A bright pair, each with the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The diaries of influential Austrian-Czech novelist, Franz Kafka, commencing from 1910 when he was just twenty-seven, running through until 1928. Not originally intended for publication, these diaries portray a raw and personal view of Kafka, providing an insight into his character. With observations of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams and ideas for future stories, these diaries were continuously in the background throughout Kafka's career. Edited by Kafka's friend, Max Brod, a Czech author, journalist and translator. With the bookplate of Alexander White Thomas Liddell. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent, with a touch of fading to the spine and the odd mark to cloth. Bookplate to front paste down. Dust wrappers are very smart, with light edge wear. A little sunning to the wraps, heavier to the spine, with a few small tide marks to the spines. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Fine. book.