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198452539NY: Limited Editions Club 1984. First edition. 4to. xii 61 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with leather spine lightly sunned. Translated from the original German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Illustrated with drawings & etchings by José Luis Cuevas. Introduction by Robert Coles. One of 1500 numbered copies on Magnani mold-made paper SIGNED by Cuevas. Original Limited Editions Club newsletter specific to this volume accompanies. NY: Limited Editions Club hardcover books
198383619NY:: Schocken Books. Near Fine. 1983. Hardcover. 0805238565 . Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. First printing thus. Sun fading along the spine else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
198368603NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good. 1983. Hardcover. 0805238565 . Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. First printing thus. Some light foxing to endpapers else very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
196886200NY: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Homage by Thomas Mann. Ninth printing thus. Very good in a very good price clipped dust jacket. Typography binding and dust jacket design by George Salter. . Knopf, hardcover books
1969Embry 186785Modern Library 1969. Pages lightly toned else fine in near fine lightly toned price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover. Modern Library, 1969. unknown books
19651105718vo. New York: Alfred Knopf 1965. 8vo xxi 482 pp. Original blue cloth decorative blind-stamp on upper cover stamped in red on backstrip near fine with name in ink on front free endpaper in the original unclipped jacket designed by George Salter spine panel toned lightly worming at folds. § “Definitive edition revised reset and printed from new plates†seventh printing. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
196978371NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. B01A1MFHQS . Modern Library number 388. Homage by Thomas Mann. Translated from the German by Willia and Edwin Muir with additional materials translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. First printing thus. Very good in a very good light age toning dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
1949291745New York.: Schocken Books. 1949. 1st Edition. Green cloth gilt spine title gilt signature on cover top edge stained green. Near fine in a good plus dust jacket with some edgewear and chipping to spine head. $3.75 price on dust jacket flap. 21.7x13.5 cm. weight: 1.2 lb. Translated by Martin Greenberg with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt. Schocken Books. hardcover books
194892322London:: Secker & Warburg. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. B005PFKKOQ . Volume One only. Edited by Max Brod. Translated from the German by Joseph Kresh. First British edition. Very good in a good age darkened and dust soiled price clipped dust jacket. . Secker & Warburg, hardcover books
193327905London: Martin Secker 1933. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Blue cloth stamped in black. Cloth very slightly faded at edges else a clean very good to near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some restoration to spine panel and extremities. Contains a number Kafka's better known short pieces. Precedes the American volume by 14 years. <br/><br/> Martin Secker hardcover books
1946Embry 197033Schocken Books 1946. First printing thus. Some browning to endpapers near fine in near fine dust jacket with multiple small tape ghosts in mylar cover. Schocken Books, 1946. First printing thus. unknown books
200381313Madrid:: Del Prado Publishers. Fine. 2003. Hardcover. 8483728273 . Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. Translated from the German. First edition thus miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5". Fine in a red leather binding. . Del Prado Publishers, hardcover books
197286273NY: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir and E. M. Butler. Seventh printing thus. Remainder mark on bottom edge else very good in a very good price clipped dust jacket.; 341 pages . Knopf, hardcover books
196192859NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. B0895ZRZGQ . Modern Library number 318. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Revised and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. Stated first printing of this Definitive Edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket with $1.95 price on front flap and 408 titles listed on verso.; 341 pages . Modern Library, hardcover books
194894626NY: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir and E. M. Butler. Seventh printing of the first American edition. Very good in a very good moderate edge wear with two small chips age darkened dust jacket with the original $2.75 price on the front flap.; 297 pages . Knopf, hardcover books
1998Embry 141637Schocken 1998. Book Club edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with minor crinkle to crown of spine in mylar cover. Schocken, 1998. Book Club edition. unknown books
197847645NY: Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir and E. M. Butler. Book club edition. Fine in a near fine a bit sun faded along the spine dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
197167004NY: Praeger 1971. First US edition. 4to. 191 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs by Isidor Pollak. Translated by P.S. Falla. Uncommon in such condition. NY: Praeger unknown books
1947229040New York The Vanguard Press Inc. 1947. 1947. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. 265 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of June 25th. Also laid in loose is a vintage photograph of Paul Goodman announcing the issue of "Kafka's Prayer" by Vanguard. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc. [1947]. hardcover books
194765001NY: Vanguard Press 1947. First edition. xiii 265 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket with two tears and chips to crown of spine. NY: Vanguard Press unknown books
1970WRCLIT34098Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1970. Cloth. Frontis plates. First edition. Poet Cid Corman's copy with his ownership signature and annotations. Very good in dust jacket. University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
1991WRCLIT34903New York: Ticknor & Fields 1991. Large thick octavo. Cloth and boards. Frontis photographs. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. Ticknor & Fields hardcover books
1947WRCLIT30683Paris: Jean Vigneau 1947. Printed wrappers. First edition in French trade issue after ten copies on Alfa translated from the Hungarian by Victor Hintz. Slight tanning and small nick at toe of spine otherwise a very good unopened copy. Jean Vigneau unknown books
19292905Stara Rise Czech Republic: Josef Florian 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/Very good. Together 2 volumes large 4to and 8vo. PORTFOLIO 310 x 235 mm. Half-title SIGNED by the artist title-page 2-page translation of Kafka's "Ein Traum" into Czech by Gustav Janouch list of plates and statement of limitation printed in red and black. With 6 full-page heliogravures from etchings by Otto Coester numbered 1-6 in pencil. Loose as issued original brown textured wrappers front wrapper with vignette printed in black spine chipped with long tear along fold plates perfectly clean. TEXT VOLUME 170 x 115 mm. 82 3 pp. Pictorial title-page printed in red and black. With 7 b/w illustrations in the text likewise by Coester 3 elaborate decorative initials printed in red. Original pale ivory wrappers front wrapper and spine lettered in purple and grey lightly rubbed. ADDED: 4-page publisher's prospectus and with illustrated card of Coester's "Promena" laid in. The entire ensemble preserved in a light gold colored cloth case. ¶ Important collection of the first illustrations of any Kafka work in any language. Here offered is the scarce first edition in Czech of "Metamorphosis" along with the rare separately published portfolio of six heliogravures from etchings all illustrated by Swabian artist Otto Coester. Coester lived in Moravia in the 1920s and belonged to a close-knit circle of Kafka admirers. Although there is no confirmed record of Kafka and Coester ever meeting in person they certainly knew each other by reputation and their proximity has led some scholars to question whether or not Coester had some inside knowledge of Kafka's vision see: David Gallagher "The Metamorphosis" p. 134. ¶ That Kafka's legendary "Der Verwandlung" is illustrated here for the first time is highly significant. From its "inception" Kafka had insisted that the creature exist only as the product reader's own worst nightmare undefined by any graphic representation on the printed page. Indeed concerning publication of the 1915 Leipzig first edition of "Der Vanderlung" Kafka demanded that: "The insect itself must not be illustrated by a drawing. It cannot be shown at all not even from a distance." ¶ Thus these 1929 illustrations are the earliest published depiction of the mythic creature. The arresting eerie heliogravures depict various highlights of the story from the protagonist Gregor Samsa awakening "from monstrous dreams" to his transformation "right there on his bed into some sort of monstrous insect"; Gregor's wife Grete playing her violin for the boarders; the discovery of Gregor's disgusting carcass and more. The text volume published contemporaneously with the portfolio contains an entirely DIFFERENT series of Coester's "Metamorphosis" illustrations; therefore in order to assess the full compliment of the iconographic tradition of Franz Kafka's writings we must examine both Coester editions together. Doing so is extremely difficult: OCLC identifies Univ. Illinois and Univ. Indiana as the only American institutions holding both the portfolio and the published first Czech edition; Harvard has only the book. ¶ Coester 1902-1990 was close to the Paris Surrealists the Bauhaus and the Werkbund; among his circle of friends were Alfred Kubin Ossip Zadkine Gerhard Marcks and Ewald Matare. He traveled to Moravia in 1927 and there publisher and early Kafka admirer Josef Florian inspired Coester to create book illustrations for "The Metamorphosis." These appeared in 1929 in a portfolio limited to just 120 copies of which ours is number 72 for which the illustrations were printed by the Graphic Union in Prague under the supervision of Josef Capek and the letterpress by Kryl and Scotti in Novy Jicine. That Coester himself assumed responsibility for the distribution of the portfolio and sold a number of copies in Germany may account for its rarity: after all Coester was a painter not a bookseller and both publications appeared during two World Wars during which time the market for artist's books was almost non-existent SOURCE: O.F. Babler "Rane ceske preklady Franze Kafky" in: Franz Kafka: Liblicka Konference ed. Eduard Goldstucker/ Prague: CSAV 1963 p. 146. The first Czech edition of "The Metamorphosis" present here in excellent condition was limited to 400 copies of which ours is number 310 of 400 copies on velin from a total edition of 600. ¶ See the exhibition catalogue: "Otto Coester - prvnà ilustrátor Franze Kafky" Dusseldorf Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen 1990. Borchers / Svestka Otto Coester Monographie mit Oeuvreverzeichnis 1991 p. 22 and no. 13 a-h. Literature: Katerina Nakladalova "Promena Franze Kafky od ilustrace po inspiraci Reflexe Kafkova dila ve vytvarnem umeni v Ceskoslovensku "Transformation of Franz Kafka from illustration to inspiration: Reflection of Kafka's work in fine art in Czechoslovakia" Masters Thesis Masarykova University Brno 2013 figs. 4-6. Josef Florian unknown books
199218082729San Francisco: The Ascensius Press 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of about 50 copies quarto size 52 pp. Franz Kafka 1883-1924 is considered by many to be one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent authors fusing elements of realism with the fantastic; he is known for his use of an isolated and detached protagonist who is forced to face a bizarre surreal predicament and his works often explore themes of alienation existential anxiety and guilt n. b. info from Wikipedia. "The Metamorphosis" is his best known work beginning with the famous line "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin"; the story is tragic in its descriptions of a family's struggle with abrupt isolationism and change.<br/><br/>This publication by The Ascensius Press contains the complete text of Kafka's story beautifully printed letterpress and bound in marbled paper over soft boards giving the grisly tale of Gregor Samsa a gentle and inviting appearance. Although 150 copies were printed according to the publisher only about a third were ever bound and the number of copies distributed is closer to fifty; the rest of the copies no longer exist.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Grey cloth shelfback with turquoise blue and grey marbled paper boards red leather spine label with gilt lettering and ruled borders yellow endpapers bookbinder's ticket for Gray Parrot Hancock Maine on rear pastedown; Linotype Fairfield type quarto size 11.5" by 7.5" pagination: i-vi 1 2-45 46-47 one of about 50 copies unnumbered.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy overall; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; a hint of foxing to the marbled paper covering at the corners of the front board else fine.<br/><br/>___CITATION: The Ascensius Press Catalogue.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â 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 you may have we are here to help. The Ascensius Press hardcover books
