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Price: US$303.16 + shipping
Description: 266 Seiten und 3 unpaginierte Blatt Verlagsanzeigen. Blaue original Leinwand mit goldenem Deckelsignet und Kopffarbschnitt (der Rücken lichtspurig (nachgedunkelt, vgl. Abbildung), etwas berieben und bestoßen, sonst sehr gutes und absolut sauberes Exemplar). 8°. Erste Ausgabe. Leider fehlt der Schutzumschlag. - Vgl. Hemmerle 32 und Raabe/Hannich-Bode 11. 850 gr.
Seller: Antiquariat Dr. Lorenz Kristen, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$461.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. The first edition of this uncommon posthumous work by Kafka. Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor was instructed by Kafka to destroy his unpublished work. Brod ignored the request, publishing the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935. Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, including the story of the same name. Spine faded.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$496.08 + shipping
Description: Erstausgabe. - Auswahl von 21 Erzählungen und Betrachtungen, darunter "Zur Frage der Gesetze", "Das Stadtwappen", "Von den Gleichnissen", "Das Schweigen der Sirenen", "Der Kübelreiter", "Der Bau", "Der Riesenmaulwurf" u.a. - Einband (Kanten u. Ecken) leicht bestoßen. Rücken wie meist verblaßt. - Hemmerle 32; Raabe 146.11; Wilpert/G. 11. ge Gewicht in Gramm: 500
Seller: Versandantiquariat Wolfgang Friebes, Graz, Austria
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 266 pages. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor was instructed by Kafka to destroy his unpublished work. Fortunately, Brod ignored the request, published the novels and collected works between 1925 and 1935. Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" (The Great Wall of China), including the story of the same name, as he did with "Amerika," and "Das Schloss." All three are now considered to be the Definitive Editions. Text in German. Epilogue by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps. Owner inscription second free endpaper dated 1934, three leaves of adverts at rear, clean and fresh copy, spine sunned. Orig. blue cloth, gold spine label printed in red. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1539.31 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 266, [5, ads], foolscap 8vo, original wrappers, the backstrip browned with a few hairline cracks and chips at tips, a little corner-creasing, a small amount of paper repair to bottom corner of flyleaf, good. The scarce wraps issue of this first posthumous collection of stories by Kafka.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
KAFKA, FRANZ. Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931.
Price: US$2565.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The extremely scarce first edition wraps-with-dustwrapper issue, for normal sale as well as for the review copies. The volume as issued, paperbound in the original red and blue-grey dustjacket, virtually in a mint state. In the near complete Kafka collection of Breon Mitchell (see Lame Duck Books Kafka catalogue of 1997), this is the only essential book missing. In the latter catalogue, Kafka s Amerika in analogous wraps-with-dustwrapper state is described as "akin to the so-called Pressenauflage of Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, the dustjacket (being) of the same dimensions as on the bound issue, thus not extending to the full height of the (hardback) book." That copy sold for $8,500 (£4,000 at that time, now £7000). A few small dents to the front free endpaper, ever less on the following few pages then virtually unfaded clean flat sheets throughout)as well as a 1-inch paper-scrape and lower-corner slight dent on the rear wrap,and the spine with a deep dent vertically from the way it was stitched originally, but not a tear) otherwise fine throughout.cover colours bright. other copies known to have the cover nearly falling off, and bnits of text on the cover edges missing. this copy has none of those faults.
Seller: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, london, United Kingdom