1926, ISBN: f1bb1f969472957ff70adacf1ecdb698

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[PU: Kurt Wolff, Munich], Jacket, KAFKA'S CASTLE. IN THE VERY RARE DUST-JACKET. Octavo. (191 × 129 mm.), pp. [vi], 1-503, [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board with a pale blue paper … Mehr…

[PU: Kurt Wolff, Munich], Jacket, KAFKA'S CASTLE. IN THE VERY RARE DUST-JACKET. Octavo. (191 × 129 mm.), pp. [vi], 1-503, [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board with a pale blue paper title label with dark red woodcut lettering and borders; spine with a matching label; top edge stained blue. Original printed dust-jacket with double rules; upper panel with the Kurt Wolff device. A couple of very minor stains but otherwise very clean and crisp. Dust-jacket with slight restoration to spine; upper and lower panels with a couple of score-marks; head and tail of spine chipped. Overall a very good copy, with the dust-jacket in nice condition. In an archival folding box. FIRST EDITION of Das Schloss: one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and in Kafka's opinion, his most important work. A very good copy, complete in the very rare and notoriously fragile dust-jacket. With Der Prozess ("The Trial") (1925) and Amerika (1927), Das Schloss completes the trilogy of Kafka's only novels; despite the sequence of publication, it was in fact the last to be composed, between February and August 1922. Like his other novels, it remained unfinished, a source of immense disappointment for Kafka, but from the perspective of readers today, a surely inescapable and essential consequence of his writing. "The Castle certainly is Kafka's most impressive shadow of a novel, yet also the most enigmatic . . . Kafka jested that there was plenty of hope for God, but not for us. There are no traces of God in The Castle, but then there is, there can be, no coherence of a plot either. K can never learn whether his summoning by the Castle was a delusion or not, and the book is a labyrinth without an exit. And yet it is Kafka's labyrinth: fascinating, inescapable, the monument to a purposiveness without purpose"-Harold Bloom (Bloom p. 2). Kafka's books were amongst the first to be banned by the Nazis, and were included in the first book-burnings that took place across Germany on 10 May 1933. But even of those copies that survived the Nazi bonfires, only a very small fraction retain their dust-jackets: exceptionally fragile, these were produced on an ephemeral paper stock typical of German publications of the period. Two forms of the dust-jacket have been recorded so far for Das Schloss: either with double rules, as in this copy, or with ornamental borders (no priority established). A very rare and evocative survival, complete with its dust-jacket. PROVENANCE: Private blind-stamp in a geometric design on the title-page. LITERATURE: Bloom, H. "Introduction", Franz Kafka. Langhorne, 2004. Göbel 663. Hemmerle 30. Rare in the dust-jacket. ABPC (1975-2015) records only one copy in a dust-jacket at auction.<

1926, ISBN: f1bb1f969472957ff70adacf1ecdb698

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[PU: Kurt Wolff, Munich], Jacket, KAFKA'S CASTLE. IN THE VERY RARE DUST-JACKET. Octavo. (191 × 129 mm.), pp. [vi], 1-503, [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board with a pale blue paper t… Mehr…

[PU: Kurt Wolff, Munich], Jacket, KAFKA'S CASTLE. IN THE VERY RARE DUST-JACKET. Octavo. (191 × 129 mm.), pp. [vi], 1-503, [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, upper board with a pale blue paper title label with dark red woodcut lettering and borders; spine with a matching label; top edge stained blue. Original printed dust-jacket with double rules; upper panel with the Kurt Wolff device. A couple of very minor stains but otherwise very clean and crisp. Dust-jacket with slight restoration to spine; upper and lower panels with a couple of score-marks; head and tail of spine chipped. Overall a very good copy, with the dust-jacket in nice condition. In an archival folding box. FIRST EDITION of Das Schloss: one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and in Kafka's opinion, his most important work. A very good copy, complete in the very rare and notoriously fragile dust-jacket. With Der Prozess ("The Trial") (1925) and Amerika (1927), Das Schloss completes the trilogy of Kafka's only novels; despite the sequence of publication, it was in fact the last to be composed, between February and August 1922. Like his other novels, it remained unfinished, a source of immense disappointment for Kafka, but from the perspective of readers today, a surely inescapable and essential consequence of his writing. "The Castle certainly is Kafka's most impressive shadow of a novel, yet also the most enigmatic . . . Kafka jested that there was plenty of hope for God, but not for us. There are no traces of God in The Castle, but then there is, there can be, no coherence of a plot either. K can never learn whether his summoning by the Castle was a delusion or not, and the book is a labyrinth without an exit. And yet it is Kafka's labyrinth: fascinating, inescapable, the monument to a purposiveness without purpose"-Harold Bloom (Bloom p. 2). Kafka's books were amongst the first to be banned by the Nazis, and were included in the first book-burnings that took place across Germany on 10 May 1933. But even of those copies that survived the Nazi bonfires, only a very small fraction retain their dust-jackets: exceptionally fragile, these were produced on an ephemeral paper stock typical of German publications of the period. Two forms of the dust-jacket have been recorded so far for Das Schloss: either with double rules, as in this copy, or with ornamental borders (no priority established). A very rare and evocative survival, complete with its dust-jacket. PROVENANCE: Private blind-stamp in a geometric design on the title-page. LITERATURE: Bloom, H. "Introduction", Franz Kafka. Langhorne, 2004. Göbel 663. Hemmerle 30. Rare in the dust-jacket. ABPC (1975-2015) records only one copy in a dust-jacket at auction.<

1930, ISBN: f1bb1f969472957ff70adacf1ecdb698

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First US Edition. Hardcover. A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor … Mehr…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First US Edition. Hardcover. A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor who attempts to contact the mysterious residents of a castle who oversee the surveyor's nearby village. This English language edition was originally published in 1926 in German under the title "Das Schloss." The story was not completed at the time of Kafka's death, but the intended plot is explained in an additional note at rear of volume by Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod. Translated from the German by Willa and Edmund Muir, and with an introduction by Edwin Muir. --- In full beige cloth-covered boards with castle image to cover in black, spine titling and decorations in blue; black topstain. A newsclip woodcut portrait of Kafka has been laid in at title page, leaving mild acidic staining. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With considerable soiling to cloth, including darkened spine. Interior is clean and unmarked; remains tightly bound.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 340 pages ., Alfred A. Knopf, 1930<

1930, ISBN: f1bb1f969472957ff70adacf1ecdb698

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Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor who attempts to contact the mys… Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor who attempts to contact the mysterious residents of a castle who oversee the surveyor's nearby village. This English language edition was originally published in 1926 in German under the title "Das Schloss." The story was not completed at the time of Kafka's death, but the intended plot is explained in an additional note at rear of volume by Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod. Translated from the German by Willa and Edmund Muir, and with an introduction by Edwin Muir. --- In full beige cloth-covered boards with castle image to cover in black, spine titling and decorations in blue; black topstain. A newsclip woodcut portrait of Kafka has been laid in at title page, leaving mild acidic staining. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With considerable soiling to cloth, including darkened spine. Interior is clean and unmarked; remains tightly bound.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 340 pages<

1930, ISBN: f1bb1f969472957ff70adacf1ecdb698

Gebundene Ausgabe

Used, good, [SC: 18.57], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor who attempts to contact the myst… Mehr…

Used, good, [SC: 18.57], [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], A first American edition of the acclaimed novel by Franz Kafka, which is the story of a surveyor who attempts to contact the mysterious residents of a castle who oversee the surveyor's nearby village. This English language edition was originally published in 1926 in German under the title "Das Schloss." The story was not completed at the time of Kafka's death, but the intended plot is explained in an additional note at rear of volume by Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod. Translated from the German by Willa and Edmund Muir, and with an introduction by Edwin Muir. --- In full beige cloth-covered boards with castle image to cover in black, spine titling and decorations in blue; black topstain. A newsclip woodcut portrait of Kafka has been laid in at title page, leaving mild acidic staining. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With considerable soiling to cloth, including darkened spine. Interior is clean and unmarked; remains tightly bound.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 340 pages<