The Castle by Franz Kafka, First Edition (36 results)

Condition: New. Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. Translator(s): Muir, Willa; Muir, Edwin. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 554. 1992. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .

Condition: New. 1992. 1st Edition. paperback. Kafka's novel is a study of relationships, particularly between the individual and society and between thought and action. K's isolation and perplexity and his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomize Kafka's vision of 20th-century alienation and anxiety. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220. . . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Ninth Printing. Bound in gray cloth with blue and black stamping. Clean copy; Kafka's second novel. 339 pp. + introduction to American edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. second printing, paperback, 280 pages, pages tanned, very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B/C.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First printing. 328pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First edition thus. ML 388.1. Apparent first edition though it only states: Modern Library Edition, February 1969. Blue boards, silver titles on spine. Red remainder stamp on bottom edges. Pages somewhat tanned. White price-clipped dust jacket has rubbing and crease on the spine.

Condition: New. 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. Includes novels which are intended to be read as allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears. Translator(s): Muir, Edwin. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 560. . . . . .

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New translation based on the restored text, first thus. Schocken Books, 1998; stated First Edition with full number line; xxiii, 328pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; gift inscription on front end page, text very good throughout. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Reprint. Bound in tan cloth, stamped in maroon in colorful dust jacket by Salter. The Definitive Edition with an homage by Thomas Mann. Some toning to top edge -- but overall, tigh and clean. Kafka's second novel. 481 pp.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and with additional material translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. Originally published in hard covers in the UK by by Secker in 1930. The spine is browned with some light chipping at the top next to the front cover. Browning to the white panels on the covers. Small crease to the bottom right corner of the front cover. The page edges are browned and there is heavy browning to the insides of the cover. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

First edition thus. 8vo. [xvii], 481 pp. Softcover binding, overall good condition. (101994). Definitkive edition with an homage by Thomas Mann. Translated fro the German by Willa and Edwin Muir with additional materials translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernest Kaiser.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boards are bowed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jaromír99 (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 481 pp. Very Good, Grey Cloth, with slight sun-staining, rubbing & some edge wear; shelf wear; stains on edges of text block. Provenance: John Ruyle, his bookplate & name inked inside cover. First printing of the Definitive Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition thus. Definitive Edition. 451 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Willa and Edwin Muir translation. Boards a little faded to edges and spine tips, priceclipped DJ a bit stained and rubbed but overall a VG, clean and tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jaromír99 (illustrator). 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing paperback original - no dustjacket (as issued) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DOODLED BY THE AUTHORS - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof of first new translation. Translation, preface, and notes by Mark Harman. Afterword by Malcolm Pasley. Teal printed wrappers. Slightly sunned spine, else fine. Publishers promotional material laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Modern Library First Edition. Modern Library # 388. DJ and initial sales price intact ($2.95). Definitive edition, with an Homage by Thomas Mann. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Prior owner's bookplate (partially removed) on the FEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ.

First edition thus. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket. A good quality omnibus, stitch-bound on decent paper, done in the days before such volumes became ubiquitous and cheaply done. All titles are unabridged. This heavy book will cost more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted (approx. $35 US for economy air).

Bill Bragg (illustrator). First edition thus. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Bill Bragg. (illustrator). Folio Society. 8vo. 8-15/16" x 6-1/4". Pictorial paper covered boards. Midnight blue endpapers. 314 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Blue boards with (little faded) gold lettering to spine are only good with pushing/bumping to corners, numerous small marks, fading/browning to spine, the odd small bump/rub to edges, a few small patches of loss to top (blue) cloth surface to spine, patchy fading, minor foxing, the odd small scratch and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping/little fraying/loss to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight (little pulled at title page with webbing showing a little - however book is not in danger of falling apart). Rough cut page edges and bottoms have mild foxing/the odd small mark. Pages are tanned. Small bookseller's sticker inside front board. Top edge of page are slightly dusty with the odd small mark/mild foxing. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. Small tears/little patchy loss to a few page edges where uneven rough cut has been badly opened. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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 (following the German edition of 1926, Munich.) 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.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. Second Edition stated. First American Edition was 1930. A Fine copy of the first printing in light medium grey linen cloth covered boards stamped in black and grey-blue, lacking the dustwrapper. With an Introduction by Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. Includes Edwin Muir's Introductory Note from the first edition. Kafka died before completing the novel, which was completed by his literary executor Max Brod, and first published in German in 1926. This is a very nice copy indeed. 340pp. Q04399.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket has a few small chips and a small closed tear on back. The book also has slight moisture-damage that can be seen on on inner-side of front and back-board. The jacket has been slightly darkened on front-flap because of this. slight water-stain low down on small part of front and back of dust-jacket near flaps. This is only a slight damage though. A early print in excellent condition.

hard cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. 20 cm. 451 pages G. Good condition, rebound in new blue cloth covers, new endpapers, gilt titles on spine, some foxing.

Hardcover. First UK Edition. Octavo, xii, 451 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering along the spine and tail edges. Boards are lightly cocked, have mild wear along the head and tail edges, light fraying along the fore corners, moderate age-toning along the extremities, and stains throughout. Textblock is splitting to gutter from page 92-318, has stains on the head edges of pages134-135, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. 1394896. Special Collections.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. xii, 451 pages. Blue cloth edges and spine sunned; head and foot of spine rubbed. Publisher's yellow topstain. Signature of poet Harry Howith to front free endpaper, with his odor of smoke throughout. Top portion of pages 85-114 with slight wave. Binding is sound. Some leaves clumsily opened resulting in loss to fore-edge margin and extra bits of paper to the facing margin: no text affected.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition in English. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Octavo.Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Prints a seven-page introductory note by translator Edwin Muir and an eleven-page "Additional Note" by Max Brod at conclusion of text. Former owner's early ink name on front flyleaf, with a few light pencil scorings in text (easily erasable), spine and extremities are lightly toned, very light wear at the crown, a very good or better copy lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Kafka, F. The Castle. A novel. English transl. and introd. W. and e. Muir. London, M. Secker, 1930, 1st Engl. ed., XII,451p., contemp. gilt cl. - Backstrip and sm. part of the frontcover sunned; backcover sl. soiled. = First English ed. Cf. Hemmerle p.30; cf. Lame Duck 38.