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Kafka , Franz.. America.. George Routledge & Co., London, 1938.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition , first printing , London , 1938. A near fine solid book in the original binding. Clean with contents excellent. Titles in gilt on the spine slightly faded. Published after the German issue. Scarce.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
KAFKA, Franz. America. George Routledge & Sons, 1938.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With the bookplate of the bookseller R. J. Dickinson on front paste-down. Original maroon boards, with author, title and publisher lettering in gilt on spine. Near Fine copy apart from some faint foxing on free front and rear end papers and a slightly bumped top front fore-edge, lacking original dustjacket.
Seller: William Cowan, Oban, United Kingdom
KAFKA, Franz.. America.. George Routledge, London., 1938.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. Octavo. pp xii, 300, [4] adverts. Original red cloth lettered in black. Edges just a little spotted. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$242.45 + shipping
Description: 300 S. OLn. Sprache: Englisch, Engl. EA! - Rücken vereinzelt fleckig, beide Kapitale minimal berieben, eine Eckkante leicht gestaucht; Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatzblatt; sonst guter Zustand! 2200 Gramm.
Seller: Eugen Küpper, Muenster, Germany
Kafka, Franz. America. George Routledge & Co., London, 1938.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: Some slight discoloration to the upper cover.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. America. George Routledge & Co., London, 1938.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A few spots within from age, handsome copy externally.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
KAFKA, Franz (Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir). America. George Routledge, London, 1938.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. Octavo size (8vo) in red cloth, black lettering to spine, xii + 300pp, 4pp publishers ads at rear CONDITION: FINE, an exceptionally well preserved and very clean and tight un- or barely read copy (minute speck of shelf rub to spine ends, top edge of page block a little dusty, pages faintly tanned) ] __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Kafka, Franz.. America.. London; George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1938., 1938.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION in English. Octavo, pp., xii, 300, [4] catalogue. Publishers' maroon cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly rubbed; lower corner of upper board bumped. Bookplate to front paste-down; minor scattered light foxing, mainly to margins. Jacket toned, particularly to spine, and lightly foxed, with repaired 3-inch tear to rear, minor nicks and creases to edge and minor loss to spine. A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir, and the last of the Author's longer works to be translated into English. Kafka's novel was originally entitled Der Verschollene but when it was posthumously published the title was changed to Amerika and this is the title by which it has been known ever since. The story features a teenage German boy Karl Rossman, sent to America by his parents for a "forgivable offence", with themes of alienation and oppression as well as comedy. Scarce, particularly in the fragile dust-jacket.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
KAFKA, Franz.. America (Amerika).. George Routledge & Sons,, London:, 1938.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. Afterword by Max Brod. First British edition. Foxing to edges and endpapers, else very good in a very good (a few small chips, age toning along the spine, foxing to flaps and verso), price clipped dust jacket. ; 300 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$898.29 + shipping
Description: George Routledge & Sons. DW. First edition. 1938. Original dark maroon cloth gilt, cloth very sl. marked to upper board and cloth to lower board very sl. raised in portions. Boards sl. sunned to margins, small portion faded at tail of spine with slight amount of shelf-wear along lower edge and corners. Head of spine very lightly frayed. Pages browned, no inscriptions. Generally a clean and sound copy of a very scarce item in a wrapper that is NOT price-clipped but lacks portions to head and tail of spine and top of front panel, is sl. soiled and rubbed to rear panel and is sunned to spine.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Kafka, Franz. America. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1938.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in English, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, foxing to textblock edge and former owner gift inscription to front free end paper. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chipping to spine ends, light soiling and light foxing, a series of small indentations along the front spine joint, and short tear at the foot of the front panel near the spine repaired with tape from the blindside. An unfinished novel, published posthumously, which began as a short story written by Kafka between 1912 and 1914. A sharp copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.