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198422390New York: Limited Editions Club 1984. Boards. Quarter gray Niger goatskin and gray striped boards. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Cuevas Jose Luis. 76 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings intaglio techniques and lithographsby by Jose Luis Cuevas. Limited edition copy 1267 of 1500 signed by Cuevas bound at the Gray Parrot bindery. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir; introduction by Robert Coles. LEC Newsletter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 539. As new copy. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1946140941328New York: The Vanguard Press 1946. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in brown. Near Fine with light lean to spine light wear to edge of front free endpaper and small indentations to several rear pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with several chips at the extremities including the spine ends and light surface wear. Features illustrations by Leslie Sherman. The Vanguard Press unknown books
1916140938241Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1916. Third Edition. Near Fine. Third edition pre-May 1917 variant without stamp to title page. Although only copyright date is 1913 text is re-set from 2nd edition. 11. Lame Duck Books Catalogue #32. 47 pp. Original black wraps with blue label. Text in German. Near Fine with rubbing to title label light shelf wear. A nice copy of the short story "The Stoker" a fragment of the uncompleted book Amerika. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown books
1962WN50114Philadelphia: The Janus Press 1962. Original brown linen cloth with gilt lettering on spine with only a couple of minor blemishes. Number 26 of 250 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. 12 relief etchings done from the original plates at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. Black paper covered slipcase has a little splitting starting on spine edges and minor wear at corners of mouth otherwise near fine. Signed By the Artist. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Near Fine/Slipcase Very Good. Illus. by Van Vliet Claire. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. The Janus Press Hardcover books
19211007NBoston: Cornhill Publishing 1921. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Walter Lantz inscribed: “To Walt Lantz my very dear friend and able confederate in the perpetration of this little volume with my affectionate regard and esteem. Frederick Kafkaâ€. This is Lantz’s first illustrated book and contains 25 black & white illustrations plus the dust jacket cover. A book of humor. Lantz shortly went on to take his comic art inventiveness into the world of animation and gained acclaim for creations like Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda. Very good in a chipped and tape-repaired dust jacket. Cornhill Publishing unknown books
1972CNJL832Newark Vermont: The Janus Press 1972. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. Kaplan Jerome. No. 23 of 100 copies folio size 10 folios signed by Jerome Kaplan in German with English translation at the end. "The Bucket Rider" is a short story first published in 1917 by Franz Kafka 1883-1924 a significant figure in twentieth-century literature especially known for his short stories. In this tale composed mostly of dialogue a poor man haggles with a coal dealer for coal to fill his bucket. <br/><br/>This edition is especially interesting with relief etchings from the original copper plates by American artist Jerome Kaplan. The original German text is presented on facing pages with the illustrations terminating with the full English translation.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original unbound folios printed in black brown and grey one vignette on the limitation page eight full-page etchings with original tissue guards; Franklin Gothic and Times New Roman types Rives BFK paper folio size 13.5" by 11.75" ten folios are paginated on German text pages only 2-9 pp. one of 100 copies this number 23 signed by Jerome Kaplan on the limitation page. Housed in a clamshell box covered in grey cloth with brown paper spine label with silver lettering.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy folios are clean and bright with no prior owner markings complete with all plates and tissue guards. The clamshell box is near fine strong and sturdy clean except for some minor age-toning with corners slightly bumped. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. The Janus Press unknown books
197120897West Burke VT: The Janus Press 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Van Vliet Claire. Lithographs printed from stone on Zerkall Butten paper text set in Monotype Times New Roman. Lithographs by Claire Van Vliet. 100 copies produced: first ten copies numbered I-X include an extra set of lithographs this is copy number 58 of the remaining 90 copies signed by the artist at colophon. Unpag. Ten loose signatures as produced in an olive green cloth covered clamshell box in Fine condition with paper label at spine. The Janus Press unknown books
1938WRCLIT70592London: George Routledge & Sons 1938. Plum cloth lettered in gilt. First UK edition of the Edwin and Willa Muir translation. Spine and top edge a trace darkened otherwise a very good copy in tanned dust jacket with some old internally mended tears and externally mended snagged chips at the bottom edge of the rear panel. MELLOWN D32. George Routledge & Sons hardcover books
193120344Munich: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth gold spine label printed in red. Near fine. 266 pages. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Max Brod Kafka's friend and literary executor was instructed by Kafka to destroy his unpublished work. Fortunately Brod ignored the request published the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935. Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" The Great Wall of China including the story of the same name as he did with "Amerika" and "Das Schloss." All three are now considered to be the Definitive Editions. Text in German. Epilogue by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps. Owner inscription second free endpaper dated 1934 three leaves of adverts at rear clean and fresh copy spine sunned. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag hardcover books
1930170331010London: Martin Secker 1930. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition first printing. Very Good with spine cloth sunned corners bumped and a previous owner name to the front free end paper. A nice copy lacking the dust jacket. Martin Secker unknown books
193855209London: George Routledge & Sons 1938. First UK Edn. 8vo pp. 300 adv. Bound in burgundy cloth some spotting to the foredge and endpapers a very good plus copy in little nicked and worn price clipped dj. Mellodwn D32. The third of the author's novels all published after his death. First published in German in 1927 and translated into English by Willa and Edwin Muir. Amerika also known as Der Verschollene or The Man Who Disappeared was the author's first novel published posthumously in 1927. George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1931122929Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag 1931. First edition of this collection of short stories by Kafka. Octavo bound in full leather gilt titles and tooling to the spine gilt tooling to the front and rear panel all edges gilt marbled endpapers. In fine condition. While written in 1917 it was not published until 1930 seven years after Kafka's death. Max Brod included it in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka.Contained within the story is a parable that was separately published as "A Message from the Emperor" "Eine kaiserliche Botschaft" in 1919 in the collection Ein Landarzt A Country Doctor. Some sub-themes of the story include why the wall was built piecemeal in small sections in many different places the relationship of the Chinese with the past and the present and the emperor's imperceptible presence. The story is told in first person by an older man from a southern province. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag hardcover books
1953WRCLIT76775Paris: Chez A. Kroll 1953. Small quarto 19 x 17cm. Loose folded sheets laid into stiff wrappers with pictorial vignette. Plates. A few plate guard tissues creased a few lower margins show a bit of foxing but a near fine copy in very good board slipcase and chemise. The label on the chemise is partially chipped away. First printing in this format of the translation into French by Alexandre Vialatte printed in company with an appended letter from Max Brod. Illustrated with 12 original burin engravings by A. Krol. From a total edition of 165 copies of which 15 were hors commerce printed on vélin d'Arches this is one of 113 numbered copies. All copies were signed by the artist Abram Krol. MONOD 6488. BENEZIT VIII:101. [Chez A. Kroll] unknown books
19371810048Gollancz 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first UK edition with 1937 on title page with a stain on bottom edge of book block. Gollancz hardcover books
1971CNJL771West Burke Vermont: The Janus Press 1971. Limited Edition. Folio. Fine. Van Vliet Claire. No. 48 of 100 copies folio size 24 pp. signed by Claire Van Vliet. Presented as unbound sheets with the lithographs printed on the same paper as the text. Claire Van Vliet b. 1933 the artist for this book is also the founder of The Janus Press which she started in San Diego in 1955. Van Vliet chose "Janus" as the name for her Press based on the ancient Roman god Janus who looked both forward and backward and therefore stood for balance. Franz Kafka 1883-1924 has been called "the Dante of the 20th century" and Nabokov placed him among the greatest writers of that century. His writings often feature isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers from which has arisen the term "Kafkaesque" N.B. info on author from Wiki. This short story an excerpt from "The Penal Colony" per a note on the copyright page. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Unbound sheets ten signatures total eight full-page lithographs by Claire Van Vlient with tissue guards the lithographs printed directly from the stones drawn by the artist with no printing on the reverse side of the page containing the lithographs; folio size approximately 12.75" tall 12 printed leaves total text Monotype Times New Roman printed letterpress paper Zerkall Butten; limited edition of 100 copies this no. 48. The loose signatures are encased in a drop-back box covered in olive linen cloth ivory paper spine label with black lettering lined with black linen cloth. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine - the signatures are clean crisp as new. The box is also fine the spine label perfect; there are some natural variations in the linen cloth covering the box as it came from the publisher. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAAILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Janus Press unknown books
19222192Berlin and Leipzig: S. Fischer Verlag 1922. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. "One of the most highly regarded literary and cultural journals in the German language Die neue Rundschau which is still published today first appeared in 1890. In Kafka's time it was the major periodical publication of one of the leading German literary presses. it published literary works by some of the most significant authors of the time including Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Rainer Maria Rilke. Kafka was a regular reader of Die neue Rundschau throughout his life." After Kafka's submission of "Die Verwandlung" "The Metamorphosis" was rejected due to its inordinate length "Kafka was disappointed not to be able to count himself among the authors represented by this respected journal. However he did eventually join their ranks in October 1922 when the story "Ein Hungerkünstler" "A Hunger Artist" appeared here." Kafka "indirectly lifted this piece to significant stature in his oeuvre by exempting it from the wish of annihilation that he had decreed for most of his other works. In addition he chose it as the title story for the last volume of stories that he was able to oversee" Richard T. Gray A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. IN: Die Neue Rundschau Vol. XXXIII Band 2 pp. 983-992. Berlin and Leipzig: S. Fischer Verlag October 1922 pp. 961-1056. Tall octavo original wrappers; custom silk box. Slight lean to spine; a touch of dampstaining to extreme edge of text block well away from text. Rare in original wrappers. S. Fischer Verlag unknown books
1962135566N.p.: Roger Corbeau 1962. Two oversize double weight still photographs from the set of the 1962 film. Each shot and stamped by still photographer Roger Corbeau and with unique rubber stamped reference numbers on the verso. <br/><br/>"Le proces" released as "The Trial" in the UK and the US was co-produced by entities in France West Germany and Italy and was shot in France between March and June of 1962. Welles considered it his best film and it remains one of the few great twentieth century adaptations of existentialist literature and the definitive visualization of Kafka's work. <br/><br/>9.5 x 8 inches. In an archival mat. Fine. <br/><br/>Grant US. Spicer US. Roger Corbeau unknown books
192420345Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1924. First editions. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine Art Deco decorated cloth with blue spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 189 69 86 pages respectively. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. The first two works published in a Limited edition one of 1000 copies. Only a few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: Ein Landarzt A Country Doctor is one He prepared Ein Hungerkünstler A Hunger Artist for print but it was not published until after his death thanks to Max Brod Kafka's friend and literary executor who ignored Kafka's request to destroy his unpublished work. Text in German. Bright clean and very fresh copy. Kurt Wolff Verlag hardcover books
1925122327Berlin: Verlag Die Schmiede 1925. True first edition of Kafka's classic work. Octavo bound in full morocco gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands gilt tooling to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. First editions are rare. Kafka's Der Prozess The Trial according to Albert Camus takes us "to the limits of human thought. Indeed everything in this work is in the true sense essential. It states the problem of the absurd in its entirety." Published posthumously in German in 1925 by Kafka's friend and executor Max Brod the book "has passed into far more than classical literary status. In more than one hundred languages the epithet 'kafkaesque' attaches to the central images to the constants of inhumanity and absurdity in our times. In this diffusion of the kafkaesque into so many recesses of our private and public existence The Trial plays a commanding role" George Steiner. In 1999 it was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as number two of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century. Verlag Die Schmiede hardcover books
1930140938490New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's light grey cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light toning to spine and top edges light foxing. Pages toned and lightly musty. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear toned at the spine and top edge. A lovely copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
193096542New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition in English of Kafka's classic work. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. With an introduction by Edwin Muir. A superior example scarce in this condition. The limits of Kafka's messianic vision correspond to the great skepticism with which he regarded the possibility of transcending the human predicament . . . At precisely the point when K. draws closest to his own salvation and to the salvation that he could offer the rest of the world he is also farthest away from it. At precisely the moment when his spirit is called K. is asleep" W. G. Sebald. It is the basis for the 1968 film directed by Rudolf Noelte and starring Maximilian Schell Cordula Trantow Trudik Daniel and Helmut Qualtinger and the 1997 film by Austrian director Michael Haneke. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19902995New York: Vincent FitzGerald and Company 1990. First Edition thus one of 50 copies all on BFK Rives paper all signed by Turner and Feingold. Page size: 11 x 13". Bound: collaged Japanese grey paper over boards housed in black silk box fine. Illustrating Kafka's 15 short fictions are 25 photogravures a delicate process little used since the 19th century. The process in which original prints are made from a photograph etched by ultraviolet light on an engraved copper plate is used in an innovative contemporary way to reflect the great Modernist author's distinctive 20th century sensibility with its inexplicable fears and haunting sense of helpless isolation. Rather than standing aloof from the text Turner's images enfold it combat it or weave their way across it. Gatefold pages aquatints adding almost subliminal touches of colors and collages employing a variety of fine papers in various textures and colors are among the techniques which add to the effect of a visual environment specially created for Kafka's lost souls to inhabit. Vincent FitzGerald and Company unknown books
19371508066Knopf 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first US edition in a fine dust jacket. First American edition stated on the copyright page. Original price still on front flap of the jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Knopf hardcover books
19152037Leipzig: Der Weissen Bücher 1915. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST APPEARANCE OF A MASTERPIECE OF WESTERN LITERATURE PRECEDING THE FIRST BOOK EDITION. "Kafka read the first section of his 'bug piece' Wanzensache aloud to friends on November 24 1912 and again on December 15. People started talking about it and Kafka received a query from publisher Kurt Wolff in March 1913 on the recommendation of Kafka's friend Franz Werfel. Franz Blei the literary editor of the new avant-garde journal Die weissen Blätter expressed interest and Robert Musil wrote as well soliciting the novella for the more established Die neue Rundschau. But months passed before Kafka had a clean manuscript ready for submission and then World War I intervened causing further delays. In the spring of 1915 René Schickele took over as editor-in-chief of Die weissen Blätter and with Max Brod's help Kafka placed the story there. It came out in October 1915 and then appeared in December 1915 though dated 1916 as a slender volume published by Kurt Wolff Verlag in Leipzig" Susan Bernofsky The New Yorker. IN: Die Weissen Blätter 2 Jahrgang October 1915 pp. 1177-1230. The whole issue October 1915 offered. Leipzig: Der Weissen Bücher 1915. Octavo original wrappers; custom cloth box. Mild foxing to wrappers a little wear at the spine ends. A rare well-preserved copy in the original wrappers of the true first printing; considerably more rare than the first book edition. Der Weissen Bücher unknown books
1915140937916Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1915. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing with no stamps to title page case-bound issue. Sans-serif variant of type to front cover and spine no priority. 73 1 5 ads pp. Publisher's printed blue paper-covered boards. In German. Very Good with typical sunning along top edge of front and back boards rubbing along edges of head boards bowed outwards a little worn tips spine slightly darkened. Internally bright. The first book appearance of Kafka's The Metamorphosis issued simultaneously in wraps and boards a landmark of 20th century literature. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown books
