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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
1984WRCLIT83781New York: The Limited Editions Club 1984. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards by Gray Parrot. Illustrations and original etchings by José Luis Cuevas. Bookplate shadow on pastedown spine a shade sunned otherwise about fine in near fine slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. The Muir translation with an Introduction by Robert Coles. Printed at the Wild Carrot Press with the etchings printed at the Water Street Press. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1984WRCLIT63063New York: The Limited Editions Club 1984. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards by Gray Parrot. Illustrations and original etchings by José Luis Cuevas. Bookplate shadow on pastedown spine a shade sunned otherwise about fine in near fine slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. The Muir translation with an Introduction by Robert Coles. Printed at the Wild Carrot Press with the etchings printed at the Water Street Press. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
19848668New York. The Limited Editions Club. 1984. Bound in 1/4 gilt titled Goatskin and paper covered boards. Housed in gilt titled paper covered slipcase. 8vo. This Edition Limited to 1500 numbered copies of which this is # 724. Illustrated with 4 drawings in pen-and-ink by Jose Luis Cuevas. Mild sunning to spine else a Very Fine Copy. The Limited Editions Club. hardcover books
194619374NY: Vanguard 1946. 8vo pp. 98. Owner's bookplate. VG. The story of a man who wakes up one morning metamorphosed into a cockroach. Vanguard unknown books
1984Embry 177651The Limited Editions Club 1984. One of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Fine in fine publisher's slipcase with a faint scuff to front panel and a few tiny rub marks. Illustrated by Jose Luis Cuevas. Gray morocco backed striped boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. The Limited Editions Club, 1984. One of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. hardcover books
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
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
2001179803Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag 2001. Softcover. VG/VG- books are clean and clear. Slipcase has overall wear and scuffing. Three volume set housed in color decorative slipcase. Each volume is white wraps with black lettering. Volume 1 is 244 pp. Volume 2 is 210 pp. Volume 3 is 80 pp. Volume 3 includes a computer optical disc. Three volume set. Text in German. 1. Oxforder Quartheft 1 -- 2. Oxforder Quartheft 2 -- 3. Untitled commentary. Historically critical edition of all manuscripts printing and typeface scripts. An edition of the institute for text criticism. Stroemfeld Verlag 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
194773576New York: Schocken Books 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. This collection of Franz Kafka's mythological tales is drawn from his short pieces his notebooks diaries letters and the novel The Trial. The original German is printed opposite the English translation and all the parables are divided into three main groups: "Israel" "Hellas" and "Occident." Small octavo: 127 p. Original green cloth binding with gilt titles. The dust jacket is toned along the spine and extremities with a faint spot to the front panel and a small tape reinforcement to the verso; otherwise very good. Schocken Books hardcover books
1947D16565New York: Schocken 1947. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo; original cloth dust jacket. A dual-language edition with German on one side and English on the other. Clean copy in spine-faded priced-clipped DJ. <br/><br/> Schocken 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
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
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
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
1995Embry 162818William Morrow 1995. Later printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. William Morrow, 1995. Later printing. unknown 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
195229024New York: Modern Library. 1952. 1st Modern Library Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy but for owner's name in upper right corner of title page in very good dust jacket with small chips and tears at spine ends. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 328 pp . Modern Library hardcover books
195239695NY: Modern Library 1952. Hardcover. Very good. H" stamp on front free endpaper top edge of textblock foxed else a very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket that has a few small closed tears. <br/><br/> Modern Library hardcover books
1998Embry 182435Artisan 1998. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Artisan, 1998. unknown 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
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
196145452NY: Knopf 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Page edges foxed else a very good hardback in a tanned jacket that is darkened on the spine and has some minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> Knopf hardcover books
