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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
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
1958173077New York: Schocken Books 1958. First U.S. edition first printing. Hardcover. 240 pages. An early work from the author of "Metamorphosis" and 'The Trial." Translated by Tania and James Stern. An about very good copy with a small chip to the bottom front corner and a small former owner signature to the front free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with a number of small edge chips and tears some creases to the front flap and other minor edge wear. Despite the flaws a solid copy that looks better than it sounds. Schocken Books unknown books
1916FK003Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1916 First edition. Publishers gray wrappers with 3 leaves of advertisements at rear in original pictorial dust jacket. Book with slight lean to spine interior clean; jacket folds lightly rubbed very light wear to spine ends with title and author inked on spine by previous owner. The Metamorphosis was first published serially in German under the title Die Verwandlung in the avant-garde journal Die weissen Blätter in October 1915 and in book format by Kurt Wolff Verlag in December of the same year. It tells the story of the anti-hero Gregor Samsa an overworked travelling salesman who awakens to find himself transformed into an ungeheueres Ungeziefer or as Lloyd translates "some monstrous kind of vermin;" Kafka's deliberately vague description of Samsa's new insect-like body which in the original German is emphasized as being dirty and bottom-feeding makes a direct translation into English extremely difficult but is generally accepted to be a cockroach. As Gregor realizes his own transformation the cause of which is never explained his family's opinion of him similarly transforms as they are both frustrated by his inability to continue to support them financially and disgusted by his new physical appearance. The Metamorphosis is widely considered one of the most influential works of the 20th century. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag paperback books
2034First edition. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION THE PREFERRED ISSUE IN ILLUSTRATED WRAPPERS OF ONE OF THE MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE. "On the evening of November 17 1912 a young employee of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Agency in Prague sat down to work on a 'troubling little story' that had occurred to him 'in bed' the previous night. After spending the first part of the day in the office he returned to the apartment he shared with his parents and thee sisters had lunch napped took a walk and then did a series of strengthening and stretching calisthenics. This was his daily ritual before settling in for the evening - and often far into the night - to what he considered his true life a life dedicated to writing. Then whether acting on a long-meditated plan or following an obscure sudden intuition he set down the words of the first hammerlike sentence of what would become his most famous story and one of the defining works of modern imaginative fiction The Metamorphosis or more simply 'The Transformation': 'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect.' Ever since readers have been mesmerized amused puzzled irritated and unsettled by Gregor's life-changing transformation" Mark M. Anderson ed. The Metamorphosis.<br /> <br /> With the famous illustration by Ottomar Starke on the front wrapper. Kafka was adamant that the illustration not depict a bug writing in a letter to the publishing house: "The insect itself must not be illustrated by a drawing. It cannot be shown at all not even from a distance." <br /> <br /> The Metamorphosis was one of the few works published by Kafka in his lifetime. <br /> <br /> Leipzig: Kurt Wolff 1915. Octavo original illustrated wrappers dated 1916 as usual over red paper covers; custom cloth box. A little foxing to front wrapper; text exceptionally clean and fresh. An excellent copy of one of the cornerstones of Western literature. unknown 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
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
2001261984Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2001. Hardcover. 248p. near-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Sophomore effort from the author of "Love" A comedy of romance and marriage between gays straights rich and poor old and young. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
192432166Berlin: Die Schmiede 1924. First edition. Publisher's brown striped boards printed cover and spine labels design by Georg Salter. A fine copy in the rare and fragile dust jacket with only minimal wear. Published shortly after Kafka's death in June 1924 it is the last book for which he corrected proofs. Dietz 66. <br/><br/> Die Schmiede hardcover 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
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
191923462Munich: Kurt Wolff 1919. First edition. Original full white linen lettered in dark red. Spine faded waterstain on front cover and edge of 35 pages some spotting to back cover and foxing of text. A good copy of the last book published in Kafka's lifetime. W / G 6. <br/><br/> Kurt Wolff unknown books
19422311459Pennsylvania: Military Service Publishing Co 1942. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips. 1942 Hard Cover. xii 248 pp. ".a practical common sense guide to everything the pilot must know to keep himself at the peak of physical and mental fitness."--jacket Military Service Publishing Co 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
194821711London: Secker & Warburg 1948. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 22.25cm.; original cloth in off-white dust jacket; xv1252pp. Upper jacket panel a bit unevenly toned spine a shade darkened else Very Good or better. Translated by G. Humphreys Roberts and Roger Senhouse. Secker & Warburg unknown books
196073683NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Fourth printing thus. Foxing on edges previous owner's name on front free endpaper else very good in a very good age toning dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
196067337NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Fourth printing thus. Foxing on edges else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
196085430NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. B001J1UNKQ . Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Fourth printing thus. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good age toning dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books
199378360NY:: Garland Publishing. Near Fine. 1993. Hardcover. 0815311605 . First edition. About fine in light brown cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
1987290055New York: Limited Editions Club 1987. Limited. hardcover. fine. Michael Hafftka. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. With 4 lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Small 4to white flexible boards wallet edges. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1987. Fine.<br/><br/> One of 800 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Fine in biege linen folding case.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
19879025746New York: Limited Editions Club 1987. Softcover. Near fine. Michael Hafftka. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with yapp edge and sewn on cloth tapes. Spine stamped in black. Clamshell with linen covers and black cloth trays with printed paper label on spine. Back of clamshell has some red markings and foredge has some sunfading. Designed by Benjamin Shiff with four original lithographs by Michael Hafftka printed at the Trestle Editions. Bound by hand by Carol Joyce. Signed by Michael Hafftka. One of 800 numbered copies. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club paperback books
198795587N.P.: The Limited Editions Club 1987. limp paper wrappers cord-tied folding box lined in velvet paper spine label. Limited Editions Club. small 4to. limp paper wrappers cord-tied folding box lined in velvet paper spine label. ii 53 5 pages. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. With Lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Limited to 800 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Text set in Monotype Walbaum at the Out of Sorts Letter Foundry and printed on mould-made Magnani paper at the Shagbark Press in South Portland Maine. The lithographs were printed on hand-made Japanese paper at Trestle Edtions with design by Benjamin Shiff and bound by Carol Joyce. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
19878669New York. The Limited Editions Club. 1987. Hand-bound and sewn by Carol Joyce in stitched Velum over boards. Cased in felt lined linen covered Solander box. Tall 8vo. 7.25" 10.25". This Edition Limited to 800 numbered copies of which this is # 724. Signed by Michael Hafftka to Colophon. Illustrated with lithographs by Michael Hafftka. A Very Fine pristine presumably unread copy. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
1987171031151New York / South Portland Maine: The Limited Editions Club printed at the Shagbark Press 1987. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. Michael Hafftka. No. 351 of 800 quarto size 56 pp. signed by Michael Hafftka. 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 has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation existential anxiety guilt and absurdity n. b. info from Wikipedia.<br/><br/>This work was penned during the course of only two weeks while Kafka was working on "The Trial" in 1914. Not published until 1919 it along with much of Kafka's work did not become widely known until after World War II when the first translations into English were made.<br/><br/>Michael Hafftka the artist was born to Holocaust survivors in 1953 and is an American figurative expressionist painter. He has work in the permanent collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art the New York MOMA the San Francisco MOMA and the Carnegie Museum of Art n. b. info from Wikipedia and the artist's website.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Heavy ivory paper folded over cardboard wrap yapped fore-edges hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce Stockton NJ black lettering on the spine lithographs by Michael Hafftka on hand-made Japanese paper with tissue guards throughout; printed on mould-made Magnani paper in monotype Walbaum quarto size 10.5" by 7.25" pagination: i-iv 1-4 5-53 54-56 1 colophon one of 800 copies this number 351 signed by illustrator Michael Hafftka on the colophon. Housed in a clamshell box covered in natural linen with tray covered in black cloth lined with black felt with a cream paper spine label with black lettering.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine; the paper wraps are bright and clean without wear the text block is strong with solid hinges and the book is entirely free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The clamshell box is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear.<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 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 Limited Editions Club [printed at the Shagbark Press] unknown books
19871336777New York: The Limited Editions Club 1987. Limited Edition #200/800. Octavo 53 pages; VG; bound in full white parchment with yapp edges; housed in a VG linen-covered clamshell box; minor foxing to parchment wraps; Illustrated with four lithographs by Michael Hafftka printed on hand-made Japanese paper. Limited Edition #200/800 signed by Hafftka on the limitation page; shelved case 9 3/4. 1336777. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
