The Man Without Qualities [Volume II: the like of it Now Happens (II) ]. This item is unavailable.The Man Without Qualities [Volume II: the like of it Now Happens (II) ]

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages; 1954 Coward- McCann. HC/DJ. First American edition. Snugly bound in full blue cloth, spine lettered brightly in gilt. Blue pictorial dust jacket is complete, with the $5.00 issue price intact to the unclipped front flap, but shows evident wear: splits and small losses along the flap folds, rubbing and shallow chipping at edges, and a closed stress crease across the spine panel. Jacket remains presentable in fresh archival mylar and is unrestored. First American edition of Volume II of The Man Without Qualities, a high-point of 20th-century literary modernism. VG/G.