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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
1971WRCLIT82035New York: New Directions 1971. Pictorial wrappers. Revised and enlarged wrapperbound US issue bound up from UK sheets. Translated by Goronwy Rees. Poet / editor / translator and ND author Cid Corman's copy with his February 1972 ownership inscription and his extensive marginal highlighting and occasional substantive notes. New Directions unknown 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
19477805New York: Schocken Books 1947. Cloth. A sharp copy of the 1947 1st American edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp price-intact VG to Near Fine dustjacket. 12mo 127 pgs. much of the material appearing in English for the first time. <br/><br/> Schocken Books hardcover books
1954193769International Collectors Library 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. International Collectors Library edition no dust jacket as issued. Sienna colored leatherette boards with gilding are clean binding is good no marks or notations found. Minor wear with slightly bumped corners and a few smudges on page edge. HB HS International Collectors Library hardcover books
195917512Philadelphia: Falcon Press 1959. Boards. Very Good. Jose Luis Cuevas. The 1959 stated 1st editon of this wonderful fusing of the words of Franz Kafka with the wild illustrations of the Mexican artist Jose Luis Cuevas. One of only 600 copies issued by the Falcon Press of Philadelphia. Bright and VG in its slate-black boards with light rubbing at the panels mild chipping and creasing along the spine crown and one thin vertical crease running along the spine. Elephant folio 22" tall text in both English and Spanish. Edited and designed by Louis R. Glessmann and Eugene Feldman. <br/><br/> Falcon Press hardcover books
1962246654New York: Random House 1962. Hardcover. x 657p. foreword introduction very good first edition first printing stated in yellow boards and lightly-chipped glassine jacket as issued. Gardner's first book published while he was at Chico State University an anthology of short stories and longer forms. Includes Mann's "A Death in Venice Random House hardcover books
199349627Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: Mellen Poetry Press 1993. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. Pale grey wrappers printed in black. A VG copy. 88 pp. Frontispiece b/w photograpic image of Kafka. 8vo. <br/><br/> Mellen Poetry Press unknown books
1936174523New York: Transition 1936. First edition. Softcover. 216 pages. A terrific issue of this important and influential literary journal. Features a cover with an illustration by Joan Miro along with internal illustrations by Matthew Brady Piet Mondrian L. Moholy-Nagy Constantin Brancusi Paul Klee Henri Matisse Paul Strand and others. Includes literary and other contributions by Harry Brown Eugen Jolas Dylan Thomas Oliver Wells Franz Kafka and others. A clean very near fine copy in yapped wrappers with some very minute wear. A lovely copy of this nearly 85 year old periodical. Transition unknown books
19466034NY: Twice a year press 1946. 2nd edition revised enlarged. 8vo pp. 120. A VG copy. Includes miscellaneous translations of Kafka's work by Sophie Prombaum from Biography of Franz Kafka by Max Brod etc. Twice a year press unknown books
198721464NY: William Morrow 1987. 8vo pp. 575. Includes a dictionary of foods and techniques. Fine in dj. Nearly 600 recipes with exact timings for different quantities and ovens of different powers. William Morrow unknown books
1992UKAFPAR00LRWilliam Morrow 1992. Fine. Kafka Barbara. Party Food: Small and Savory. New York City: William Morrow 1992. 323pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. William Morrow hardcover books
1995UKAFROA00LAWHarperCollins 1995. Very Good. Kafka Barbara. Roasting: A Simple Art. New York: HarperCollins 1995. 452pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. 1/4 tan cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Rear panel is subtly soiled and has two short closed tears. HarperCollins hardcover books
2005035593New York: Artisan 2005. xii 708p. b/w illus. dj. Artisan unknown books
1995Embry 162818William Morrow 1995. Later printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. William Morrow, 1995. Later printing. unknown books
1998Embry 182435Artisan 1998. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Artisan, 1998. 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
1940WRCLIT76852New York: Twice A Year 1940. Bright yellow cloth. Binding slightly dusty crown of spine slightly frayed early ink name but a good to very good copy in lightly chipped and somewhat tanned dust jacket with a couple of closed tears. First edition. Includes a number of short pieces by Kafka translated or published in English for the first time along with essays by Brod Muir and Slochower. A long letter about Kafka from Thomas Mann to Jas. Laughlin appears on the rear jacket flap. Twice A Year hardcover 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
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
2008WELLER9780805211610Schocken Books 2008. New. New book. Schocken Books 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
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
200871890London:: Four Corners Books. Near Fine. 2008. Hardcover. 9780954502560 . Translated from the German by Tania and James Stern. First edition thus. Near fine in black paper covered boards. No dust jacket as issued. ; 86 pages . Four Corners Books, hardcover books
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