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1937réf. 140948199New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1937. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition stated first printing. ix 297 1 pp. illustrated throughout by Georg Salter. Bound in publisher's rust-colored cloth over flexible boards with pictorial stamping in blue and black blue topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to binding light wear and soiling to cloth soft crease to front board and foxing to upper edge of textblock. Offsetting to endpapers owner signature to front free endpaper. A much nicer copy than normally encountered. A nice copy of Kafka's darkest work a posthumously published novel about a man arrested on undefined charges with no hope of redemption or acquittal. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir who introduced Kafka's works to the English-speaking world. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1915réf. 140948517Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1915. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing case-bound issue. Text in German. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards stamped in black; spine sympathetically replaced. Near Fine boards are lightly toned and soiled with wear at corners slight foxing to endsheets. The first book appearance of Kafka's The Metamorphosis issued simultaneously in wraps and boards a landmark of 20th century literature. Flores p. 20; Dietz 26. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown books
1915réf. 140947640Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1915. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. 73 1 5 ads 1 pp. The preferred issue bound in publisher's red wrappers with beige printed dust jacket illustrated by the German Expressionist Ottomar Starke. Very Good with lean to binding small tear at crown and creasing to spine and edges. Light toning and slight discoloration to cover label removed with residue on front red wrapper. Foxing to textblock edges and margins of contents light toning throughout with small closed tear to inner margin of p. 10 not affecting text. One of the only books published in Kafka's short lifetime an initial flop that scarcely sold more than 400 out of 800 copies on first printing. "This 'exceptionally repulsive story' is the most sustained work of fiction published during Kafka's lifetime and the one with which his name is most profoundly associated in the common conscious. In his critical hierarchy of the great prose works of the Twentieth Century Vladimir Nabokov rates Die Verwandlung second behind only James Joyce's Ulysses a work that is twenty or more times its length." The Breon Mitchell Collection of the Works of Franz Kafka p. 7; Flores p.4. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown books
1938réf. 140944785London: George Routledge & Sons 1938. First English Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding foxing to textblock edge and former owner gift inscription to front free end paper. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning chipping to spine ends light soiling and light foxing a series of small indentations along the front spine joint and short tear at the foot of the front panel near the spine repaired with tape from the blindside. An unfinished novel published posthumously which began as a short story written by Kafka between 1912 and 1914. A sharp copy. George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1939réf. 2727Paris: GLM 1939. FIRST EDITION Deluxe issue. Original wrappers. Fine. EXCEEDINGLY RARE DELUXE SET OF AVANTE-GARDE WORKS BY FOUR LITERARY MASTERS. Each copy one of only 15 deluxe issues. Includes the deluxe issue of Duchamp's important collection of aphorisms "Rrose Sélavy". This extraordinary and complete collection collectively "Biens Nouveaux" of works by Marcel Duchamp Lewis Carroll Franz Kafka and Gisèle Prassinos demonstrates the significance of absurdism magical realism and surrealism across Europe in the 1930s and 40s. Published in April 1939 by Guy Lévis-Mano one of the most creative French printers of the twentieth century this complete series includes Marcel Duchamp's Rrose Sélavy Lewis Carroll's La Canne du Destin Franz Kafka's Le Chasseur Gracchus and Gisele Prassinos's Sondue. Each copy is one of only 15 of the deluxe issue printed on high-quality Vieux Japon. This original edition of Marcel Duchamp's book of aphorisms Rrose Sélavy is numbered two out of only fifteen copies on Vieux Japon. Duchamp's female alter ego Rrose Sélavy was an artist muse and creative experiment that brought to life his symbolic use of language. Her name as pronounced in French sounds like "Eros c'est la vie" meaning "The passion of love sex such is life." The playful puns and witty satire in this text provide clever commentary on society and the art world offering the reader a glimpse into the mind of a revolutionary artist who believed in the joy to live and roam free in thought. Lewis Carroll's La Canne du Destin The Cane of Destiny is numbered thirteen out of only fifteen copies on Vieux Japon. Published posthumously in 1939 translator André Bay believed it was written in 1848 when Carroll was only 16. La Canne du Destin features two barons a magician and a man named Blowski who dies and is transformed into mashed potatoes !. It is notable for its fantastical storytelling and whimsical wordplay a style which predated and foreshadowed Carroll's most famous work Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. His writing inspired the work of surrealists like Duchamp and Prassinos. Le Chasseur Gracchus English: The Gracchus Hunter; German: Der Jäger Gracchus numbered seven out of fifteen copies on Vieux Japon was translated by Henri Parisot in 1939 and is one of the earliest Franz Kafka's stories published in French. A six-page story written in 1917 it was found posthumously among Kafka's papers. The tale is about the long-dead Hunter Gracchus who is destined to wander aimlessly and eternally at sea unable to find peace. The surrealist dreamlike imagery of the story explores themes of loneliness alienation and the human condition. This work represents a model for Kafka's later writing and a Kafkaesque dilemma "two worlds that cannot make themselves understood by one another." Emrich Sondue Sounded by Gisèle Prassinos is numbered two out of fifteen copies on Vieux Japon. A French artist and writer she was discovered by André Breton in 1934 who declared "the tone of Gisèle Prassinos is unique: all the poets are jealous of it." When she was just fourteen her first book La Sauterelle Arthritique The Arthritic Grasshopper was published. For many her personification of animals in this story was reminiscent of Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Hailed as a prodigy by the surrealists Sondue a novella-length narrative was published when she was just 19 and considered macabre humor. Prassinos used automatic writing sometimes referred to as free writing a common surrealist technique. This was the last story she published before the start of World War II. She would not publish any writing again until 1958. This "Biens Nouveaux" collection was beautifully printed on Vieux Japon known for its velvety texture and substantial weight and only used by Guy Lévis Mano for premium projects. René Char French poet and member of the French resistance explained "When the passion to give life to a collection.unites with.the art of printing it brings us admirable successes and restores the object to its lasting plenitude. Guy Lévis Mano is the only one today who satisfies this haughty concern. He devoted his faith his competence his generosity and his enthusiasm to it." Char 745 1. Marcel Duchamp. Rrose Sélavy. Paris G.L.M. 1939. First Edition. Small quarto 165 x 115 mm original wrappers; glassine. Small closed tear to glassine at front base otherwise fine. One of 15 original copies on Vieux Japon this one number 2. 2. Lewis Carroll. La Canne du Destin The Cane of Destiny. Paris G.L.M. 1939. Small quarto 165 x 115 mm original wrappers; glassine. Fine condition. One of 15 original copies on Vieux Japon this one number 13. 3. Franz Kafka. Le Chasseur Gracchus The Gracchus Hunter. Paris G.L.M. 1939. Small quarto 165 x 115 mm original wrappers; glassine. Fine condition. One of 15 original copies on Vieux Japon this one number 7. 4. Gisèle Prassinos. Sondue Sounded . Paris G.L.M. 1939. First edition. Small quarto 165 x 115 mm original wrappers; glassine. Fine condition. One of 15 original copies on Vieux Japon this one number 2. References: André Breton. Translated by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. Manifestos of Surrealism. University of Michigan Press 1969. René Char. In the Poet's Studio. Gallimard "Quarto" collection 1956. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Franz Kafka." Encyclopedia Britannica December 2 2022. Wilhelm Emrich. Translated by Sheema Z. Buehne. Franz Kafka. Frederick Ungar Publisher 1961. Alexander Hawkins. "Meet Rrose Sélavy: Marcel Duchamp's Female Alter Ego." AnOther Magazine. December 1 2015. Gisèle Prassinos. Translated by Ellen Nations. Surrealist Texts. Black Scat Books 2014. Rachel Rivenc and Kendra Roth eds. Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art. Getty Conservation Institute 2022. GLM unknown books
1987réf. 96851Covelo CA: The Yolla Bolly Press 1987. cloth paper spine label slipcase. Yolla Bolly Press. 8vo. cloth paper spine label slipcase. xvi 1251 pages. The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers. Limited to an edition of 245 this volume marked as 'Out of Series Broomfield A92a1i. Lacking the slipcase. Lightly stained else a near fine copy. A book of the correspondence between lovers Robinson and Una Jeffers including some of Robinson's poetry. James and Carolyn Robertson designed the book which is composed in Eric Gill's Perpetua types on Ragston paper. Eight tipped-in plates of photographs. The Yolla Bolly Press unknown books
1984réf. 22390New 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 7529. As new copy. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1998réf. 49144New York: Schocken Books Inc 1998. Reprint. Paperback. New. 328pp. Small Octavo 20cm; illustrated wraps. The Castle was left unfinished and unpublished untile two years after Kafka's death. It is the story of a young man trying to breach a castle that is guarded by multiple levels of bureaucracy. This edition was translated and prefaced by Mark Harman. Schocken Books Inc paperback books
1995réf. 49146New York: Schocken Books 1995. Reprint. Paperback. New. 317pp. Small Octavo 20cm; illustrated wraps. Kafka's famous short story about a young man transformed into a cockroach to the dismay of himself his family and his community. Also included in this collection: Conversation with the Supplicant Meditation and The Judgment. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Schocken Books paperback books
1973réf. 00445TRAIL AND TERROR H-M 1973 first edition fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Contributions by: Hammett Sayers Wallace Cain Kafka O'Connor et.al. Houghton -Mifflin unknown books
1938réf. 12048TWICE A YEAR N.Y.C.1938 first edition vg in wraps as issued. Number 1 #1 of this semi-annual journal of literature the arts and civil liberties. Contributions by: Theodore Dreiser Franz Kafka Edust-wrapper ard Stieglitz Maria Rilke E. E. Cummings Kenneth Patchen Anais Nin James Baldust-wrapper in Charles Olson et.al. TWICE A YEAR paperback books
1993réf. 120114Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1993. First edition first prnt. Signed & dated "June 29 '93" by Kafka on the half-title page. Publisher's postcard laid-in. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1993réf. 120115Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1993. First edition first prnt. Signed by Kafka on the half-title page. Publisher's postcard laid in. Unread copy; dustjacket with few shallow wrinkles on front panel top edge. Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1970réf. 26483University of Manitoba Press: Winnipeg 1970. Very Good . Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press 1970. Offprint from Mosaic 3 vol. 4. Signed by John Fowles at start of essay dated 1997. Octavo. 31 - 41. Stapled wraps. Light rubbing to edges of wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Winnipeg unknown books
1946réf. 422038New York: New Directions 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Translated by Edwin Muir. Preface by Klaus Mann. Afterword by Max Brod. Ownership signature of poet Daniel Hoffman gutters cracked corners bumped very good lacking the dustwrapper. Full title: Franz Kafka's Amerika: The New Classics. New Directions hardcover books
1993réf. 78360NY:: Garland Publishing. 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. About fine in light brown cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . 0815311605 . Garland Publishing, hardcover books
1987réf. 80286New York: Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1987. Hardcover. IN THE PENAL COLONY BY FRANZ KAFKA LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1987 WITH LITHOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL HAFFTA SIGNED. 7 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches hand sewn and bound by Carol Joyce in parchment covers with yapp edges -- Fine and signed by Michael Haffta who has contributed the four lithographs. Housed in a linen covered felt lined clamshell. #516 of 800. ; Signed by Illustrator . Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1924réf. 32166Berlin: 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. Die Schmiede unknown books
1926réf. 32165Munich: Kurt Wolff 1926. First edition. 8vo pp. vi 504. Original blue cloth some mild fading internally fine and fresh with the rare original dust jacket edges and folds minimally restored slightly chipped at the ends of the spine the jacket carries a quote from Hermann Hesse calling Kafka "König der Deutschen Sprache Kurt Wolff unknown books
1996réf. 261895New York: Barnes And Noble 1996. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Fine in wrappers. Clean condition except for slight browning to foredges. Barnes And Noble unknown books
1965réf. 1885931965. Very Good. Reprint. Very good minus. Pages loose ink notes on a few pages. In German. unknown books
1956réf. 199154New York: Modern Library 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in very good dust jacket. The dust jacket is worn at the top and bottom edges. Modern Library hardcover books
1992réf. 215721CA: Lyford 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Review. Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new. Lyford hardcover books
1977réf. 34215New York: Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. 1st American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good and slightly cocked in very good dust jacket with internally mended dust jacket showing wear and tears.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 509 pp . Schocken Books hardcover books
1993réf. 621922Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: Mellen Poetry Press 1993. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Kafka. Printed wrappers. Light wear wrappers and topedge lightly foxed very good or better. Inscribed to the editors of Quarterly Review of Literature Theodore and Renée Karol Weiss on the half-title: "For Ted and Renée - with admiration and with all good wishes for 1994. –Emery." Laid into the book is a nice one-page Typed Letter Signed from George to the Weisses. George compliments the QRL's 50th Anniversary Issue and sends this book along writing a few lines about it: "I hope you will feel that it convincingly addresses a need: imaginative immersion into a mind and world which after tens of thousands of scholarly and probably hundreds of literary responses is still badly in need of being explored. Mellen Poetry Press unknown books
