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Price: US$984.55 + shipping
Description: 4 Bll. 189 S. Oktav. Neuer anthrazitfarbender BuchbindermeisterLeineneinband. Eingebunden sind Vorderdeckel mit dem Orig.- Titeschild und Hinterdeckel der Orig. Broschur. Vorsatzblatt mit kleinem alten Exlibris. Gedruckt bei Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig. Erste Ausgabe.
Seller: Kunstantiquariat Piesk, Wiesbaden, HE, Germany
Kafka, Franz. Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen.. K.Wolff, Mnch. u. Lpz.,, 1919.
Price: US$1312.74 + shipping
Description: 4 Bll., 189 S., 1 Bl., Gr.-8°, ill. OBr. m. Deckelschild Erstausgabe. 14 Erzählungen, entstanden 1916/17 und dem unmöglichen Vater gewidmet. Kafkas Vaterkomplex ist ja immer wieder hinreichend bemüht worden. Kurt Wolff fand die Erzählungen 'ganz außerordentlich schön und reif'. Für den Druck des Werkes wurden über zwei Jahre benötigt - Papierprobleme, ständige Korrekturen und sogar die Drucktype stand nicht immer zur Verfügung. Es ist die gleiche, sehr große Schrift, die bereits in der 'Betrachtung' Verwendung fand. Hergestellt wurden 1000-2000 Exemplare, die sich nur schleppend absetzen ließen. Rücken mit Leinen unterlegt, kleine Fehlstellen im Randbereich, Innengelenke dezent verstärkt.
Seller: Antiquariat Knut Ahnert Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kafka, Franz. EIN LANDARZT Kleine Erzaehlungen. Kurt Wolff Verlag, Muenchen, 1919.
Price: US$1795.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 191 Seiten. Dunkel gefaerbte Kopfschnitt. Keine hervorragende Defekte. Aussen z.T. ganz leicht nachgedunkelt, winzige Flecke hie und da auf den weissen Deckeln. Papier leicht bis maessig vergilbt.
Seller: German Book Center N.A. Inc., Mountain Dale, NY, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz.. Ein Landarzt.. Kurt Wolff Verlag,, München und Leipzig,, 1919.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition 192 pp German Erstausgabe. The scarce first edition. Last book published during Kafka's lifetime (died 1924). Bound in brown/grey paper over board, brown cloth spine with gilt title on black label. Letztes Buch von Kafka, erschienen während seines Lebens. Braun-graues Papier auf Pappe, brauner Leinenrücken mit Goldtitel auf schwarzem Hintergrund. Photo auf Anfrage. For photos inquire. Light greasy finger prints on front cover, corners lightly bruised, name stamp on ffly, longer poetic quote (by Cécile Périn, translated into German) handwritten on 2nd fly leaf and half title. Leichte Fingerabdrücke auf Vorderdeckel, Ecken leicht angestoßen, Namensstemple auf Vorsatzblatt. Handschriftlicher poetischer Text von Cecile Perin, übersetzt, auf zweitem Vorsatz und Schutztitel. Papier altersbedingt etwas lichtrandig.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
KAFKA, FRANZ. Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzhlungen. Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919.
Price: US$1920.44 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition wraps issue. Invisibly and beautifully restored tiny chipping on lower front corner and on lower edge of back cover by the spine, otherwise a superb copy of the green-gray and black patterned paste-paper-covered issue. Stiff wraps. Repeats the wonderfully large typeface of Betrachtungen, the letters seeming to dissolve on the page as one reads. The volume took three years to be brought out by Wolff, strange to read in letters Kafka s frustration at queries not replied to! His following book (see below) went to a different publisher. About 1,000 copies were issued, some say 2,000 maximum. In specially made linen solander box, the label on the box s spine mimicking the crumpled cover look of the wraps. (Lame Duck 31.) Invisibly and beautifully restored tiny chipping on lower front corner and on lower edge of back cover by the spine, otherwise a superb copy of the green-gray and black patterned paste-paper-covered issue.
Seller: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, london, United Kingdom
KAFKA, Franz. Ein Landarzt.. , 1919.
Price: US$2227.70 + shipping
Description: Kurt Wolff Verlag, Muenchen, 1919. 8vo. Publisher's beige cloth, titled in maroon to upper cover and spine; pp. [viii], 189, [3]; a very good copy, sound, with some light uniform toning to paper stock and top edge, a little faded along the spine. First edition. Kafka's second short story collection (after Betrachtung or "Contemplation" in 1912) published in 1919 by Kurt Wolff. The collection consists of 14 short stories in the absurdist/surrealist vein for which Kafka became known â" the 15th story "The Bucket Rider" was removed on Kafka's request prior to publication. Due to what can only be described as organizational difficulties within the publishing house, and the lingering effects of the war, the publication of the book stretched out over several years, to the exasperation of an increasingly irate Kafka, if rumours (and surviving correspondence) are to be believed. The dedication to his father is of particular interest, given some of the oedipal themes expressed throughout his canon works, and their notoriously difficult relationship. On a brighter note, Kafka was said to be delighted with the presentation of the book, most of all the unusually large and beautiful typeface. The first edition of this book is, unhelpfully but interestingly, known to exist in a variety of similar (but far from identical) covers. This peculiar (and bibliographically frustrating) publishing strategy may well be the result of Kafka's poor sales performance during his lifetime, leading the publisher to hold back unbound sheets and produce different versions of the book as and when needed. Other versions of this book include those in half-cloth or paper covered boards, including variations with the same or entirely different title treatments, all ostensibly containing the same printing of the book.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom