Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
by Kafka, Franz; trans by Willa & Edwin Muir; intro by Philip Rahv
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine unmarked, in Fine price-clipped jacket.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1952. No edition stated. Hardback in stamped gray cloth boards w silver spine titling, in b/w jacket.. Fine unmarked, in Fine price-clipped jacket.. 15 of the authors best-known works. Bright tight crisp HB w jacket.
5 x 7-1/4, 328 pp, orange decorative endpapers.
5 x 7-1/4, 328 pp, orange decorative endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40117
- Title
- Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
- Author
- Kafka, Franz; trans by Willa & Edwin Muir; intro by Philip Rahv
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in stamped gray cloth boards w silver spine titling, in b/w jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine unmarked, in Fine price-clipped jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No edition stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
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edburynbooks
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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