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Franz Kafka. Two copies of The Castle.... (Total: 3 Items)
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Description
Franz Kafka. Two copies of The Castle. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Martin Secker, 1930.8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt.
FIRST UK EDITION. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. The Castle (Das Schloss) was first published posthumously in 1926 in Germany, edited by the author's close friend and literary executor Max Brod from Kafka's unfinished manuscript. The present edition, issued in London by Martin Secker in 1930 and published simultaneously in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, marks the first appearance of the work in English.
[Together with]: Another copy of the above.
Condition: Spines sunned; both copies with staining to boards; one copy with boards more lightened and corners bumped, also with scattered pale spotting to text; edgewear to both.
References: Flores, p. 15 (incorrectly giving the publisher as "Secker & Warburg" rather than Martin Secker; the firm did not merge with Fredric Warburg to form Secker & Warburg until 1935).
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