The Castle by Franz Kafka, First Edition (32 results)

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.

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. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book in Very Good condition. Previous owner's name on the frontispiece. Dust jacket in Very Good condition, minor chipping. Mylar protected.

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. . . . .

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: 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. . . . . .

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Culver Pictures (Cover Photo); Kathleen Digrado (Cover Design); Maura Fadden Rosenthal (Design) (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition. 325 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Warped book, cover to cover. Stains on spine, top, fore and bottom edges. Slightly creased spine.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 190x125x30mm+455g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Secker & Warberg. UK. 1965. . . . Ex-Library with all the usual markings, old tape marks. First Definitive Edition 3rd printing. Reading copy only: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$30.00 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$47.80 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$54.80 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$11.20 526.

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.

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.

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).

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: 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.

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.

8vo. First edition thus. First published in 1930. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w. From the Definitive Edition of the Works of Franz Kafka.

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.

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

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: 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: 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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. With an introduction by Edwin Muir, this is the first English translation of The Castle, published simultaneously with the British edition (Flores, 15). Published posthumously in 1926, The Castle was never actually finished by Kafka. Despite having directed his good friend Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished works upon his death, The Castle found its way to the printers, and onward as one of the most important and humanizing existential works of the twentieth century. Bookplate of book collector R.J. Dickinson, very faint foxing and fading to boards, internally bright, clean, and tight. Near fine in near fine price-clipped and very lightly edge worn dust jacket with slight darkening to extremities and toned spine, in mylar cover. An especially nice copy of this philosophical classic. Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in black and blue, top edge stain grey. The final pages have been left unopened, awaiting their first ever reader First English translation edition, first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition in English; A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this UK Edition, the first translation of a Kafka novel into English, preceding both "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis"; very scarce in this condition, particularly with the Original, intact dust jacket. Housed in a beautiful custom clamshell box. This copy is in near fine condition with a square tight binding, bright blue boards with sharp gold lettering, and pages free of any markings with mild age-toning; the book does show minor rubbing to the board edges, moderate sunning to the spine, and light soiling to the exterior text block. Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better original dust jacket that shows mild rubbing and chipping to the ends, edges, and corners, a light dampstain to the spine, and a small closed tear at the spine fold near the head of the spine. Overall, a sharp and presentable copy of a book rarely seen in this condition; an important addition to the Kafka collection or the 20th century literature collection. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar protective cover and will be shipped carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. This work was unfinished before Kafka's death in 1925; Kafka had requested that all his papers and unfinished works be burned upon his death, however novelist Max Brod (also executor of Kafka's will), chose to have them published some years later, to preserve Kafka's work.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Fine in price-clipped about fine dust jacket. (Previous owner's bookplate on front end-paper. Couple short edge tears & slim chip at crest of spine with very tiny chip at base. Faint damp spots at spine on jacket. ) A remarkably well preserved copy of an uncommon title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful price clipped dustjacket that is rich in color with light wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collectors condition. We buy Kafka First Editions.