The Man Without Qualities

Hardcovers with dust jackets in Slipcase. 2 Vol. with 1774 pages.First printing of first edition. Slipcase has faint signs of wear and $60.00 price on bottom crossed with red ink (see photos). Vol. 1 has gap in top of block at pp. 276-277 from bookmark. Otherwise book and dj are both clean and unmarked. 'The Man Without Qualities (German: Der… Read more about this item

Picador Classic. Second printing. Translation by Sophie Wilkins of "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" (Rowohlt, 1978). With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. xii/1130 pages. "In 1913 the Viennese aristocracy are gathering to celebrate the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very Good overall with dust jackets. First volume has name on ffep, spine pane a bit darkened, small stains to front panel, price-clipped. Second volume jacket lightly foxed. Third volume has name on ffep, some… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very good. Three strong, tight, bright and clean volumes in green cloth with gilt spine titling, 1265 total pages, unmarked within except for previous owner's name and address label to ffep of Volume 2. Occasional spotting to endpapers and the usual age-toning. Volume 2's boards are somewhat mottled/ discolored possibly from… Read more about this item

Tight, clean and unmarked-" The third volume of the four-volume Picador translation of the novel. This book is subtitled Into the Millenium (The Criminals), remained unfinished, and was published posthumously."-" "Musil, given his desperate personal situation and the Nazi takeover in Germany, compares his continued work on The Man without Qualities to the diligence of a woodworm, boring through a… Read more about this item

Picador, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. ~~Comes with outer box~~VG/VG+ 1st impression two volume box set 1995 Picador edition, unclipped dust-jackets, beautifully produced with special outer box. Surface looseness and wear to label top of outer box with some minor marks to edges of page block of the books,… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg,, 1953-54-60. A titan of modernism First editions in English, first impressions, of "one of the most prestigious novels of the 20th century... Some novelists excel at giving the reader the emotional feel of a character's mind (Dickens), others at the sensuous feel of a character's mind (Flaubert). Musil is wonderful at both" (Smiley). The first… Read more about this item

Picador, London, United Kingdom, 1995. First Edition. Hardback. New Book. ~~New/Sealed box set~~New 1995 Picador two-volume box set, highly regarded edition. A little wear to shrink-wrap around front of spine corners of books only. Size: 153\nx 234mm. 1774 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; ISBN: 0330346822. ISBN/EAN: 9780330346825. Dewey… Read more about this item

Picador, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. ~~No outer box, complete 2 volume set~~VG/VG 1st printing 2 volume Picador hardback set, unclipped jackets, lacking the outer presentation box only. Light usage with minimal spotting to page edges of vol 2, a little top corner curling to small section of pages of… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. cloth, two volumes, complete. hardcovers in dust jackets in illustrated slipcase., missing paper label on top of slipcase with faint traces of adhesive remaining, minor impact and non-progressive. no other flaws - clean, well bound, no writing or markings.; vol. 1 - x-725pp./vol. 2 - vi-729-1774pp.; translated from german original by sophie wilkins. burton pike,… Read more about this item

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback / softback. New. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force

Hardback. Very Good.

Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First American edition. Two volumes. x, 725; [726]-1774 pp. Black paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine stamped in gray, with the dust jackets, in publisher's slipcase. The first English translation to present the complete text. Translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike. Some minor rubbing to slipcase with a bump on the… Read more about this item

London, Secker and Warburg, 1953, 1954 & 1960. . First UK editions, first impressions; 3 vols, 8vo; light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spines, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of vols I and II, light marks to upper cover of vol III, with the unclipped dustjackets, slight sunning to spine… Read more about this item

New York: Coward-McCann, 1953. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. A handsome copy of the stated 1953 1st American edition of Vol. I (of 3 total) of Robert Musil's sweeping masterpiece of mid-20th century Continental (German) literarure. Tight and VG+ (light offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a crisp, price-intact ($4.00), VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch… Read more about this item

secker & warburg london 1953. ex-lib.first edition 365pp VG- (green cloth,mod.rubbed and stained w.libr.mark to spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,front flap only of d/w mounted on front pastedown,sl.soiling to content edges,spine cracked and sl.cocked) lacks d/w

New York: Coward-McCann, [1953]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, bright and unfaded, with only the most minor wear at spine ends. While the jacket blurb indicates that four volumes would be forthcoming, in fact this volume and its 1954 sequel, were in fact published.