New Directions, 1946. Hardcover. Fair. 468 pages. Introduction by the editor, biographical note by Kate Flores. With bibliography and notes on the three dozen contributors of reminiscences and critical essays. Illustrated with b&w photos, a few ms. facsimiles, and sketches by Kafka. 8vo, gray cloth with lettering entirely faded and spine/margins age-browned, entire book - pages and cloth - wavy from long-ago water damage, gray topstain, edges/end papers age-tanned and soiled, book cocked, front hinge cracked. Name of former owner written on ffep mostly washed away, pencil notation on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 125 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AEB-312
Title: The Kafka Problem
Author: Angel Flores (ed.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1946
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: AUDEN, AUSTIN WARREN, MAX BROD
Bookseller catalogs: Literary criticism; Kafka;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.