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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
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
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
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
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
