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Price: US$27.62 + shipping
Description: Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1916. 107 S. Mit 14 (davon 8 ganzseit.) Lithographien von Ottomar Starke. Gr.-8vo. 27 cm. OHPgt. mit goldgeprägter VDeckel-Illustr. u. Kopfgoldschnitt. Die Erzählungen waren einzeln in der Reihe "Der Jüngste Tag" erschienen: Busekow / Napoleon / Schuhlin. -Für diese drei Texte wurde C. Sternheim der Fontane-Preis für den besten Erzähler 1915 verliehen. Der Dichter nahm die Ehrung an u. gab den damit verbundenen Geldbetrag an Franz Kafka weiter als Zeichen seiner Anerkennung für dessen Bücher "Der Heizer" u. "Die Verwandlung". - Pergament angestaubt,Deckel leicht fleckig, Schnitt gebräunt
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis].. Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, 1916.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: True first edition of one of Franz Kafka's most important works. Octavo, original wrappers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, rebacked. An exceptional example. The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect. "While critics have interpreted this chilling story variously as a description of despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to institutional authoritarianism, and as an expression of conflict between the author and his father, its power seems to rest in its resistance to explanation. W.H. Auden has said of it, 'Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka would be the first one would think of" (New York Public Library's Books of the Century, 13).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.