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Price: US$6.08 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
KAFKA.FRANZ. WEDDING PREPARATIONS IN THE COUNRTY.. SECKER&WARBURG., LONDON., 1954.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BLUE CLOTH BINDING.SPINE DARKENED.GILT TITLE ON FRONT COVER.SOME BROWNING OF ENDPAPERS.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. Wedding Preparations in the Country. Secker, 1954.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards are a bit sunned and rubbed. Some foxing and a few rubber stamps. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean unmarked NOT a former library book. Blue cover faded along spine.
Seller: hcmBOOKS, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Englush edition 8vo. Blue with gilt to front and spine, minor knocks , a crease, dulled spine, sound binding, a signature to fep, remnant mark of label, included with book, very good page condition.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth. Only front cover and inside flap of dust jacket. 446pp
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [light shelfwear, minor fading to cloth at spine ends, age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is a bit tattered, with small tears and a bit of paper loss at all corners and at ends of spine, shallow chipping at top edge of rear panel, spine panel sun-browned, general light soiling and handling wear]. "This important new collection from the Kafka manuscripts housed in the Schocken Library at Jerusalem, under the editorship of Max Brod, contains at least two pieces of major interest. 'Wedding Preparations,' the title story, was never completed, but it significant in showing Kafka at the outset of his literary career, already a master of language, but still uncertain how best to handle his material. . Even more important, because fundamental to any understanding of Kafka, is the 'Letter to My [sic] Father,' printed in full for the first time. Written at the age of 36, it can surely be called unique in world literature, a classic example of the complex relationship between artist son and businessman father. This remarkable document, of which hitherto only tantalising fragments have appeared in English, together with the recently published 'Letters to Milena,' throws new light on the inner workings of Kafka's fantastic mind. In addition, a large number of short pieces, stories and fragments from the notebooks appear for the first time, and a few (newly translated) which were originally printed in 'The Great Wall of China.'" Contents: "Wedding Preparations in the Country"; "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way"; "The Eight Octavo Note-books"; "Letter to His Father"; "Fragments from Note-books and Loose Pages"; "Paralipomena"; Notes (by Max Brod).
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz. Wedding Preparations. Secker and Warburg, London, 1954.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket has some chipping, rubbing and bumping. Open and closed tears to front and rear. Damp marks to boards, some damp damage prelim PP, does not affect text. Size: 8vo 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Advance proof copy for the definitive edition. Wrappers a little browned, hand-lettered on spine.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Very good book in weak jacket, spine Dust Jacket sunned, chipping to both ends s pine jacket pieces very loose. Chips loss at front edge of cover, nicks at fold corners, tape residue rear.
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First English edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth, gilt titles, with dustjacket. 446pp. With Notes by Max Brod. Covers aged with faded top to spine Owner's name and date to flyleaf. Light foxing to end-papers and half-title. Jacket has edge wear to top edge and spine with small losses. Spine of jacket darkened. A Very Good copy. in a Good+ jacket.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With the book plate of the Bookseller R. J. Dickinson on front paste-down. Fine copy in a price-clipped, but otherwise complete dustjacket which is faded on the spine and has a number of small nicks the longest of which is 2cm. Note: Many of the pieces in this collection have never been published before. "Wedding Preparations," though never finished, is an early story which shows Kafka "at the outset of his literary career, already a master of language, but still uncertain how best to handle his material" (from the jacket). "Letter to My Father" is an interesting example of the complex relationship between artist son and businessman father, short sections of which have only appeared before in "Letters to Milena". Also included are a large number of stories and fragments from the notebooks. An important collection.
Seller: William Cowan, Oban, United Kingdom
Franz Kafka. Wedding Preparations. Secker & Warburg, 1954.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Wedding Preparations," though never finished, is an early story which shows Kafka "at the outset of his literary career, already a master of language, but still uncertain how best to handle his material" (from the jacket). "Letter to My Father" is an interesting example of the complex relationship between artist son and businessman father. Also included are a large number of stories and fragments from the notebooks, some of which are published here for the first time. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 446 pages. Photos available by request. International customers will be charged actual shipping costs.
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Kafka, Franz.. Wedding Preparations.. Secker & Warburg., London, 1954.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British Edition. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. (Chipping at edges of jacket. Couple longish tears. Previous owner's neat signature inked on front end paper. 'Printed in Great Britain' sticker at head of copyright page, with bleed through to title. ) ; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 446 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 446 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Top edge very slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket with a few tiny edge nicks, but with the red lettering on the spine bright and unfaded. Uncommon in this condition. In the Definitive Edition and in fact the true first edition, translated by Ernst Kaiser & Eithne Wilkins, with notes by Max Brod. An important collection of writings, containing the never completed "Wedding Preparations", "Letter to My Father", printed in full for the first time, as well as a number of short pieces, stories and fragments from the notebooks.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Price: US$231.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 'And Other Posthumous Prose Writings' 'Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way', 'The Eight Octavo Note-books', 'Letter to His Father', 'Fragments from Note-books and Loose Pages', 'Paralipomena', and the title piece; notes by Max Brod, the author's literary executor and first biographer, translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser; 446pp. Fine in near fine dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: 8vo., pp. 446; blue publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and cover; dust-jacket chipped at the tail of a sunned spine, with one short closed tear and one chip from the upper panel, otherwise a near-fine copy in a jacket much neater than it sounds.First edition in English. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, with notes by Max Brod. 'Although Kafka's almost unceasing guilt and anxieties seem to mark him as a man of pestilential morbidity and gloom, it is not the important effect he has on us. He has a kind of cunning. His plain and simple prose is elating in its precision, its air of naïveté, and its bleak drollery. It is ingenious in its suspense and has the transparency of Swift's.' Quotation from V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books, February 1982.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$336.23 + shipping
Description: Minor browning to end-papers, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly soiled dust-wrapper which is somewhat sunned at the spine panel as usual
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$434.50 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo, original blue cloth in the rare dustjacket. 446. A near mint copy of the book, the jacket with some mellowing to the spine and very minor edgewear. "Wedding Preparations," though never finished, is an early story which shows Kafka "at the outset of his literary career, already a master of language, but still uncertain how best to handle his material" (from the jacket). "Letter to My Father" is an interesting example of the complex relationship between artist son and businessman father. Also included are a large number of stories and fragments from the notebooks, some of which are published here for the first time.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: this is the first publication of this book in english as noted by secker and warburg in london in 1954. specifically it states on the back of the title page english translation first published by secker & warburg 1954. handsome copy. dj toned due to exposure to light.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.