‎Kafka franz‎

‎KAFKA Franz‎

‎The Trial‎

‎Avon: Limited Editions Club 1975. Limited. hardcover. fine. Alan E. Cober. Translated from the German by Willa & Edwin Muir and with an introduction by Erich Heller. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober with color plates and other drawings in the text. 220 pages. Short 4to full cimson blind-stamped leather board slipcase with paper label. Avon CT: Limited Editions Club 1975. A fine copy in a near fine box.<br/><br/> Limited to 2000 copies signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 279621

‎Kafka Franz‎

‎The Trial‎

‎Knopf 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first US edition in a fine dust jacket. First American edition stated on the copyright page. Original price still on front flap of the jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Knopf hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1508066

‎Kafka Franz‎

‎The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man‎

‎New. New book. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WELLER9781782274391 ISBN : 1782274391 9781782274391

‎Kafka Franz‎

‎UN MÉDECIN DE COMPAGNE‎

‎Paris: Chez A. Kroll 1953. Small quarto 19 x 17cm. Loose folded sheets laid into stiff wrappers with pictorial vignette. Plates. A few plate guard tissues creased a few lower margins show a bit of foxing but a near fine copy in very good board slipcase and chemise. The label on the chemise is partially chipped away. First printing in this format of the translation into French by Alexandre Vialatte printed in company with an appended letter from Max Brod. Illustrated with 12 original burin engravings by A. Krol. From a total edition of 165 copies of which 15 were hors commerce printed on vélin d'Arches this is one of 113 numbered copies. All copies were signed by the artist Abram Krol. MONOD 6488. BENEZIT VIII:101. [Chez A. Kroll] unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT76775

‎Kafka Franz‎

‎WEDDING PREPARATIONS IN THE COUNTRY AND OTHER POSTHUMOUS PROSE WRITINGS with Notes by Max Brod‎

‎London: Secker and Warburg 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. The title story was never completed but is significant as showing Kafka at the outset of his literary career already a master of language but still uncertain how best to handle his material whether to write in the first person singular or whether to adopt the famous "K" as the symbol for his hero. A volume in the Definitive Edition of The Works of Franz Kafka. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding with gilt titles. The boards are ever so slightly bowed with some fading along the spine and a minor bump to the spine head. The dust jacket is browned along the spine and folds with a single tape reinforcement to the verso; else very good. Secker and Warburg hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 73556

‎Kafka Franz author; Muir Willa; Muir Edwin; Wilkins Eithne; Kaiser Ernst translators; Mann Thomas foreword‎

‎THE CASTLE‎

‎New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1966. Definitive edition revised reset and reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo; Definitive edition revised reset and reprinted; Eighth printing; VG-/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white tanned with white print on blue banner; DJ has light edgewear toning to spine smudging on rear; Boards in green cloth with green print on brown banners slight wear to spine caps and top fore corners else clean and strong; Text block has pink-tinted top edge clean and tight; xvi 481 pages. 1327712. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1327712

‎KAFKA FRANZ.‎

‎BROD MAX. Franz Kafka.‎

‎New York: Schocken Books 1947. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with a "C"-shaped tear to top edge of rear panel. A biography by Kafka's close friend and literary executor. <br/><br/> Schocken Books unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 30342

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎Letter to His Father / Brief an Den Vater.‎

‎NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. B0006BNXQG . Bilingual edition: German and English. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. No indication of printing. Very good in a very good price clipped dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 90748

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎Letters to Friends Family and Editors.‎

‎NY:: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0805236627 . Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Second printing thus. Very good in a very good minor shelf wear fading along the spine dust jacket. . Schocken Books, hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64137 ISBN : 0805236627 9780805236620

‎Kafka Franz.‎

‎Metamorphosis.‎

‎The 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 177651

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎The Bridge.‎

‎NY:: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 83619 ISBN : 0805238565 9780805238563

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎The Castle Definitive Edition.‎

‎NY: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 86200

‎Kafka Franz.‎

‎The Castle.‎

‎8vo. 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 110571

‎Kafka Franz.‎

‎The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923.‎

‎New 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 291745

‎KAFKA FRANZ.‎

‎The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces.‎

‎London: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 27905

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎The Metamorphosis miniature.‎

‎Madrid:: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 81313 ISBN : 8483728273 9788483728277

‎KAFKA Franz.‎

‎The Trial ML 318.‎

‎NY:: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 92859

‎Kafka Franz.‎

‎The Trial.‎

‎Schocken 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : Embry 141637

‎KAFKA Franz. Bauer Johann.‎

‎Kafka and Prague.‎

‎NY: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 67004

‎KAFKA Franz. Goodman Paul.‎

‎Kafka’s Prayer.‎

‎NY: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 65001

‎Kafka Franz: Karl Frederick‎

‎FRANZ KAFKA REPRESENTATIVE MAN‎

‎New York: Ticknor & Fields 1991. Large thick octavo. Cloth and boards. Frontis photographs. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. Ticknor & Fields hardcover books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCLIT34903

‎Kafka Franz; Coester Otto illustrator; Vrana Ludvik; Pastor Frantisek; Janouch Gustav translators‎

‎Promena Metamorphosis - First Czech edition. Together with: Promena Sestero Konfigurací k Stejnojmenné Povídce Frant. Kafky Metamorphosis Six Illustrations of the Story of the Same Name by Franz Kafka - First Illustrated edition‎

‎Stara 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 - první 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2905

‎Kafka Franz; Hafftka Michael illustrator‎

‎IN THE PENAL COLONY SIGNED‎

‎New 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1336777

‎KAFKA Franz; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB‎

‎Trial The‎

‎Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1975. Arrested and Prosecuted by a Remote Inaccessible Authority."<br/><br/>KAFKA Franz. The Trial. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. With an introduction by Erich Heller and illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Avon Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club 1975. <br/><br/>Limited to 2000 copies signed by Alan E. Cober this being no. 524.<br/><br/>Quarto 9 7/16 x7 3/8 inches; 239 x 190 mm. 268 pp. Ten full-page color plates by Alan E. Cober and numerous black & white drawings in the text.<br/><br/>Publisher's full red oasis grain leather stamped front cover and spine stamped in gilt and blind. A fine copy housed in the publisher's black cloth slipcase with red lettering label on spine.<br/><br/>Franz Kafka 1883-1924 was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of twentieth-century literature. His work which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation existential anxiety guilt and absurdity. His best known works include Die Verwandlung "The Metamorphosis" Der Process The Trial and Das Schloss The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.<br/><br/>The Trial tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote inaccessible authority with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's other novels The Trial was never completed although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end.<br/><br/>Alan E. Cober 1935-1998 was an American illustrator. His artwork appeared in The New York Times Life and Time. His drawings of institutionalized people prisoners the mentally disabled and the elderly were compiled into a book called The Forgotten Society which was also published in 1975.<br/><br/>Limited Editions Club Bibliography 495. Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1975 unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 03673

‎Kafka Franz; Muir Edwin Translator; Muir Willa Translator‎

‎Conversation with the Supplicant‎

‎West Burke VT: The Janus Press 1971. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Van Vliet Claire. Lithographs printed from stone on Zerkall Butten paper text set in Monotype Times New Roman. Lithographs by Claire Van Vliet. 100 copies produced: first ten copies numbered I-X include an extra set of lithographs this is copy number 58 of the remaining 90 copies signed by the artist at colophon. Unpag. Ten loose signatures as produced in an olive green cloth covered clamshell box in Fine condition with paper label at spine. The Janus Press unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20897