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METAMORPHOSIS
by KAFKA, Franz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Typical sunning to the spine and a few rubbed spots to the front board. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some rubbin
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1984). Hardcover. Typical sunning to the spine and a few rubbed spots to the front board. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some rubbing. Jose Luis Cuevas. Large octavo (8-1/4" x 11") bound in quarter gray-green goatskin with paper covered boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrated with five subtle yet striking ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS by Jose Luis Cuevas specially created for this edition. Copy #323 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
Synopsis
Franz Kafka was born in 1833 to a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family. His father, the self-made proprietor of a wholesale haberdashery business, was a domineering man whose approbation Franz continually struggled to win. The younger Kafka's feelings of inadequacy and guilt form the background of much of his work and are made explicit in his "Letter to His Father" (excerpted in this volume), which was written in 1919 but never sent. Kafka was educated in the German language schools of Prague and at the city's German University, where in 1908 he took a law degree. Literature, however, remained his sole passion. At this time he became part of a literary circle that included Franz Werfel, Martin Buber, and Kafka's close friend Max Brod. Encouraged by Brod, Kafka published the prose collection Observations in 1913. Two years later his story "The Stoker" won the Fontaine prize. In 1916 he began work on The Trial and between this time and 1923 produced three incomplete novels as well as numerous sketches and stories. In his lifetime some of his short works did appear: The Judgment (1916), The Metamorphosis (1916), The Penal Colony (1919), and The Country Doctor (1919). Before his death of tuberculosis in 1924, Kafka had charged Max Brod with the execution of his estate, ordering Brod to burn the manuscripts. With the somewhat circular justification that Kafka must have known his friend could not obey such an order, Brod decided to publish Kafka's writings. To this act of "betrayal" the world owes the preservation of some of the most unforgettable and influential literary works of our century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019921
- Title
- METAMORPHOSIS
- Author
- KAFKA, Franz
- Illustrator
- Jose Luis Cuevas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Typical sunning to the spine and a few rubbed spots to the front board. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some rubbin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1984)
- Keywords
- Signed, Original Etchings, Franz Kafka, Jose Luis Cuevas, LEC, Modern Firsts, German Literature, Limited Editions Club, Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- German Literature;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Fine
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- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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