Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Franz Kafka. The Trial. Limited Editions Club January 1975, 1975.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red leather covers, some small stains to front cover
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1975.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Condition is Very Good, bound in full red leather with gilt titles and decorations. Rubbing to gilt on front panel. Interior is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. Signed by the artist, Alan E. Cober, on the limitation page. Translated frm the German by Willa and Edwin Muir With an Introduction by Erich Heller and Illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Small 4to, 9 3/4"h x 8"w.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red faux leather, front cover lettered in blind, spine panel lettered in gilt. As issued, in original glassine dust wrapper showing loss to lower spine panel and closed tear extending partway up panel. xix,222 pp., illus. w/ color plates. Limited to an edition of 2,000 copies signed by illustrator Cober, this copy out of series. Publisher's slipcase shows a few slight marks, essentially as issued.
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Franz Kafka. The Trial. The Limited Editions Club, 1975.
Price: US$134.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by illustrator Alan E. Cober on limitation page. Number 1369 of 2000 copies. Owner's book plate affixed to free front enpaper else as new. Book still has glassine jacket. Slipcase is in near fine condition.
Seller: Signedbookman, Buffalo Gove, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$162.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in publisher's original red leather with spine stamped in gilt. Cover stamped in gilt and blind. Top edge stained red. Publisher's original slipcase in black cloth with heavily chipped label, otherwise fine. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. One of 2000 copies signed by the artist.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$167.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xv, [iii], 220 pp. Original full oasis-grain leather, a deep-red and stamped in gold leaf and blind. With 10 full-page col. plates and 13 b/w illusts. by Alan E.Cober. Signed by the illustrator, Alan E. Cober. Lim. ed. No.1582/2000 copies. No slipcase. Text in English.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$175.40 + shipping
Description: Avon, Connecticut. The Limited Editions Club, 1975 / 1976. 4°. XV, 220 S. mit Illustrationen von A. E. Cober im Text und auf 10 farbigen Tafeln. Roter, gold- und blingeprägter OGanzLeder - Einband mit Kopffarbschnitt im OSchuber. In bestem Zustand. (s. Foto). Im Druckvermerk vom Künstler signiert. Nr. 365 von 2000 numerierten Exemplaren. Mit "Monthley Letter" The Limited Editions Club, 8 S. Sprache: eng
Seller: Antiquariat Johann Forster, Friedenweiler, BW, Germany
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. Limited Editions Club, Avon, Connecticutt, 1975.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Hardcover. Condition: As-New. Large 8to. size. 268 pp. 1st thus: this copy #1056 of a limited 2000. Full red leather stamped in gold and in blind, with matching red endpapers. In the translation of Edwin and Wilma Muir, revised by E.M. Butler. Introduction by Erich Heller, illustrated with b/w and color wash drawings by Alan E. Cober, and signed by him on the limitation page. The book is immaculate, as if fresh from the printer. It does not appear to have ever been opened, except by me; see photos. In the original VG glassine dustjacket, whole and complete, in a VG+ semi-gloss black board slipcase with a red spine label, Fine except where a previous collector's label was removed. Kafka's most famous and influential novel, in as fine a condition of this edition as you will ever find. In uncertain economic times, what better way to invest your hard-earned money than in items of lasting value you can hold in hand and enjoy?
Seller: Aesthete's Eye Books, West Jordan, UT, U.S.A.
KAFKA, Franz. THE TRIAL. Limited Editions Club, Avon, CT, 1975.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Large octavo (7-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full red morocco with gilt rules and lettering and blindstamping. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Erich Heller. Illustrated with color plates and black-and-white drawings by Alan E. Cober. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. This copy was acquired directly from the publisher and is not numbered, likely an overrun copy. New and unread. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$398.63 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xv, [2 leaves], 220, [1 leaf]errata. 24 illus., 10 of which are full-page & printed in colour (incl. frontis.). A fine copy in original full blind & gilt-stamped red morocco. without the slipcase. Limited to 2000 copies, signed by the Illustrator Cober. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Compass in Lunenburg, Vermont, the format planned by Peter Oldenburg.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada