Kafka, Franz. THE CASTLE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930.

Price: US$297.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Boards a bit browned. Spine heavily browned. Small cracks on outer hinges. Former owner's name on front endpaper. ; A nice early copy from the author's first book. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages

Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.

Franz Kafka. The castle,. A.A. Knopf January 1930, 1930.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Alfred A. Knopf. Second American edition, 1941. A good copy, in dust jacket. Black top stain. Gray boards with black and green decorations. Dust jacket has some soiling and chipping, most notably a triangular tear to back cover about an inch long. Still a very handsome copy. Will send pic on request.

Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.

Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930.

Price: US$3250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's light grey cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light toning to spine and top edges, light foxing. Pages toned and lightly musty. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, toned at the spine and top edge. A lovely copy.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in black and blue, top edge stain grey. The final pages have been left unopened, awaiting their first ever reader. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. With an introduction by Edwin Muir, this is the first English translation of The Castle, published simultaneously with the British edition (Flores, 15). Published posthumously in 1926, The Castle was never actually finished by Kafka. Despite having directed his good friend Max Brod to destroy all of his unpublished works upon his death, The Castle found its way to the printers, and onward as one of the most important and humanizing existential works of the twentieth century. Bookplate of book collector R.J. Dickinson, very faint foxing and fading to boards, internally bright, clean, and tight. Near fine in near fine price-clipped and very lightly edge worn dust jacket with slight darkening to extremities and toned spine, in mylar cover. An especially nice copy of this philosophical classic. First English translation edition, first printing.

Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.