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Kafka, Franz. The Castle.. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$231.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 20 cm. 451 pages G. Good condition, rebound in new blue cloth covers, new endpapers, gilt titles on spine, some foxing.
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,451pp, owner's name on front endpaper, remnanats of a circulating library label on rear endpaper, edges browning and light foxing, torn with small loss on top corner of title page, page top corners slightly bumped and creased, blue cloth gilt, recently rebacked with original spine backstrip laid down, the orginal cloth rubbed, mark of a Boots Library label on front board; Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Franz Kafka. The Castle: A Novel. Martin Secker, 1930.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1930. First English Editio. 451 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Deckled edges. Rough cut edges. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Upper text block edge dyed yellow. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild water staining to pastedowns and lower edge of front and rear pages. Small tears and minor loss to a few page edges where uneven rough cut has been badly opened. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Notable water stains and mild mottling to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Pale mark to foot of spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Kafka, Franz. The Castle : First printing : No jacket. Martin Secker, London, United Kingdom, 1930.
Price: US$384.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Blue boards with (little faded) gold lettering to spine are only good with pushing/bumping to corners, numerous small marks, fading/browning to spine, the odd small bump/rub to edges, a few small patches of loss to top (blue) cloth surface to spine, patchy fading, minor foxing, the odd small scratch and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping/little fraying/loss to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight (little pulled at title page with webbing showing a little - however book is not in danger of falling apart). Rough cut page edges and bottoms have mild foxing/the odd small mark. Pages are tanned. Small bookseller's sticker inside front board. Top edge of page are slightly dusty with the odd small mark/mild foxing. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. Small tears/little patchy loss to a few page edges where uneven rough cut has been badly opened. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xii, 451 pages. Blue cloth edges and spine sunned; head and foot of spine rubbed. Publisher's yellow topstain. Signature of poet Harry Howith to front free endpaper, with his odor of smoke throughout. Top portion of pages 85-114 with slight wave. Binding is sound. Some leaves clumsily opened resulting in loss to fore-edge margin and extra bits of paper to the facing margin: no text affected.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
KAFKA, Franz. THE Castle: A Novel. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in English. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Octavo.Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Prints a seven-page introductory note by translator Edwin Muir and an eleven-page "Additional Note" by Max Brod at conclusion of text. Former owner's early ink name on front flyleaf, with a few light pencil scorings in text (easily erasable), spine and extremities are lightly toned, very light wear at the crown, a very good or better copy lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz (trans.by Willa & Edwin Muir). The Castle, a Novel. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 451pp.; HB blue w/gilt; rubbed w/slight cock; wear on edges&corners; spine sunned white; sun on bk.cover; clean,tight pgs. Metaphysical novel postulating " .that there is a right way of life, and that the discovery of it depends on one's attitude to powers which are almost unknown."
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Franz Kafka. The Castle. A novel. Martin Secker, 1930.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Kafka, F. The Castle. A novel. English transl. and introd. W. and e. Muir. London, M. Secker, 1930, 1st Engl. ed., XII,451p., contemp. gilt cl. - Backstrip and sm. part of the frontcover sunned; backcover sl. soiled. = First English ed. Cf. Hemmerle p.30; cf. Lame Duck 38.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
KAFKA, Franz. The Castle. A Novel. London: Martin Secker, 1930.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: First English edition, 8vo, xii, 450, (2) pp. Slightly later signature to the fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth, spine slightly sunned.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$699.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue cloth. First Edition in English. Nabokov considered Kafka to be among the greatest writers of the 20th century. Very Good but lacking the Dust Jacket.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2017.36 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Kafka's first major appearance in English, providing the foundation for his great international standing. Perhaps due to the British public's unfamiliarity with the 'kafkaesque', initial sales "were appalling, though the book won recognition of Kafka's genius" (Hodges, p. 101). It is estimated that a mere 500 copies were sold. The Muir translations remain in print today. In his introductory note, Edwin Muir states that "Franz Kafka's name, so far as I can discover, is almost unknown to English readers" (p. v), having previously appeared only in disparate translations of his short stories. "It is because the Muirs toiled to communicate the incommunicable that Kafka, even in English, stands indisputably among the few truly indelible writers of the 20th century - those writers who have no literary progeny, who are sui generis and cannot be echoed or envied" (Bernofsky). The volume concludes with an essay by Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod. Kafka's last novel, it was first published as Das Schloss (1926). Susan Bernofsky, "On Translating Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'", The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2014; Sheila Hodges, Gollancz: The Story of a Publishing House, 1928-1978, 1978. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Franz Kafka. The Castle. Martin Secker, 1930.
Price: US$12750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition in English; A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this UK Edition, the first translation of a Kafka novel into English, preceding both "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis"; very scarce in this condition, particularly with the Original, intact dust jacket. Housed in a beautiful custom clamshell box. This copy is in near fine condition with a square tight binding, bright blue boards with sharp gold lettering, and pages free of any markings with mild age-toning; the book does show minor rubbing to the board edges, moderate sunning to the spine, and light soiling to the exterior text block. Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better original dust jacket that shows mild rubbing and chipping to the ends, edges, and corners, a light dampstain to the spine, and a small closed tear at the spine fold near the head of the spine. Overall, a sharp and presentable copy of a book rarely seen in this condition; an important addition to the Kafka collection or the 20th century literature collection. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar protective cover and will be shipped carefully wrapped in a sturdy box. This work was unfinished before Kafka's death in 1925; Kafka had requested that all his papers and unfinished works be burned upon his death, however novelist Max Brod (also executor of Kafka's will), chose to have them published some years later, to preserve Kafka's work.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Martin Secker, London, 1930.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A magnificent dustjacket with only slight wear to the edges. This original First Printing dustjacket is seldom seen in this nice condition. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy in collector's condition. We buy Kafka First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.