Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xviii, 299p. Blue cloth. Paper spine label. There is fabric loss to the upper spine edge and rubbing to the corner tips Toning to the endpapers, otherwise clean, unmarked tex. This copy has PULICATION DATE / Oct 8, 1940 stamped on the front free endpaper which might make it a review copy. "Amerika follows the ever-changing fortunes of Bohemian immigrant Karl Rossmann as he encounters people who abuse and exploit himand in doing so, disabuse him of his preconceptions about America. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.32 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1940 New Directions hardcover 1st US edition. Inscribed by Nathan Glazer to his sister-in-law Shirley Slotkin on the ffep in 1943. Octavo. xviii, 299 pp. No dj, outer spine was loose and has been reglued, with a glue stain and tears down both sides, soil on cover and edge, edges frayed, light tanning , else text clean, binding tight.
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:New Directions, 1940, Translated by Edwin Muir. Preface by Klaus Mann. Afterward by Max Brod. Illustrations by Emlen Etting. 8vo. Stated Printed October 1940 reverse of p. 299. Frontispiece. Blue cloth boards, paste-on brown background title with blue hand-lettering style bubble letters. Corners, boards faded around edges, spine faded (title legible) and frayed top and bottom. Foxing on endpapers. Previous owner last name on front endpaper. Pages off-color. No dust jacket. Very good.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. Amerika. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fragment of jacket preserved and laid in. Blue cloth and paper label in excellent state.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Franz Kafka. AMERIKA.. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$179.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VG copy in good dust jacket with price ($2.50) intact. First New Directions edition. Previous owner's name neatly inked to front fly leaf. In every way scarce especially with fragile jacket. Now in mylar protection.
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photo of Kafka by K S Woerner glued on rear endpaper; front endpaper has gutter foxing; jacket has browned spine, small tear on front edge, and some tiny edge chips
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. Amerika. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition. Translated by Edwin Muir. Preface by Klaus Mann. Afterword by Max Brod. Cloth, Paper Label. A nice looking copy with unfortunate and faint tide marks to lower gutter side of front board, front pastedown and front free fly. in a dust wrapper with a noticeable chip, a couple of closed tears, and minor wear, thus a good copy only. I prefer to be paid via PayPal, username Michael Grano Thank you.
Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. Amerika. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: Jacket with price $2.50. Advance copy with publication date stamped on endpaper. Jacket without tears or chipping, just a few small spots.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Franz Kafka. Amerika. New Directions, Norfolk, 1940.
Price: US$1448.50 + shipping
Description: In original cloth. 299 p. From Robert Klopstock's collection. Robert Klopstock, who was in the years 1920-1924 a friend Franz Kafka. Professor Klopstock was of Hungarian origin and he got acquainted with Franz Kafka at the end of the year 1920 in Tatranske Matliare (The High Tatras). They were both patients treated for lung tuberculosis. They became close friends and their mutual correspondence shows their real friendship. Robert Klopstock was present at Franz Kafka's death-bed on June 3, 1924 Klopstock was forced into emigration in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1945.
Seller: Földvári Books, Budapest, Hungary