Franz Kafka a Biography by Brod Max, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Schocken, 1960. A very good copy, no dustwrapper. The book shows light wear along the board edges and foxing on the page edge. Brod was Kafka's great friend, the person most capable of describing the brilliant Czech author, which he does here very well.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First Edition. First English Edition, inscribed "With all best wishes, from the Translator" on title page, presumably by G. Humphreys Roberts himself. Secker & Warburg, 1947; "First published 1947" stated, no later printings indicated; 183pp. G/G- hardcover, missing the dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; moderate amount of toning, wear to edges of orange cloth boards, corners gently bumped; spine toned, gilt titling dulled but legible; text very good; small previous owner inscription on front end page. No dust jacket. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Cloth. First British Edition 183 pp, Photographs G. Humphreys Roberts First English Language edition. Maroon colour cloth over board. Gilt spine title partially worn, no dw., front paste down cracked, binding firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. BROD, Max. Franz Kafka: a biography. London: Secker and Warburg 1947. Previous owner's book-plate pasted to front end-paper. Spine of jacket slightly faded, otherwise a Fine copy in like dj. Note: A superb copy of this important biography of one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Small label on the spine and front fly, ospine lettering dull, a very good copy without dustwrapper. The first important biography of Kafka. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Translated from the German by G. Humphreys Roberts. Octavo. Brown cloth stamped in black and gold. 236, [9]pp. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs, and drawings, and manuscript material in holograph facsimile. Tiny bookstore label, else fine in a very good dust jacket, lightly foxed, with few short tears, and a small chip at crown. Published the same year in London by Secker & Warburg; the original German language edition was published in Prague in 1937.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated from the German by G. Humphreys Roberts. First British edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear with a few small chips, age toning to rear panel) dust jacket. ; 183 pages.