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Description
Franz Kafka. The Castle. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.8vo. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in blue and black, front board stamped in black; original illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION and the first translated into English, published simultaneously with the first UK edition by Martin Secker. The work was first published in Munich in 1926 by Kurt Wolff Verlag as Das Schloss, two years after the author's death in 1924.
Condition: Cloth spine sunned and with pale spotting. Dust jacket price clipped; spine lightly sunned; mild edgewear and a few scuffs; uncommon at auction, the present dust jacket is unusually fine.
References: Flores, p. 15.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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