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Vor dem Gesetz Devant la loi ""Before the Law"" in the yearbook ""Vom jüngsten Tag. Ein Almanach neuer Dichtung""
1916rif. 90945Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1916. Fine. Only text from ""The Trial"" published by Kafka himself Kurt Wolff Verlag Leipzig 1916 14.1 x 21 cm Broché First edition of this almanac of the Neue Dichtung published by Kurt Wolff featuring the first book-form appearance of Kafkas short story ""Vor dem Gesetz"" pp. 126-128. Covers sunned tear to spine not lacking paper chipping to spine-ends and corners rubbed. First edition of the short story ""Vor dem Gesetz"" Before the Law later published verbatim in Kafkas masterpiece ""Der Proceß"" The Trial. The story would subsequently be included in Kafkas collection Ein Landarzt and only published separately in 1934 ed. Heinz Politzer Schocken Verlag Berlin. The almanac also includes contributions by Ernst Stadler Carl Sternheim Georg Trakl Georg Heym Walter Hasenclever Albert Ehrenstein Johannes Becher Max Brod Ernst Blass Else Lasker-Schüler René Schickele Franz Werfel Robert Walser Francis Jammes Kasimir Schmidt Rudolf Leonhard Arnold Zweig Rabindranath Tagore. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown
