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Kafka, Franz

London: Martin Secker, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English of Kafka's unfinished dystopian novel. Posthumously published, thanks to Kafka's friend and literary executor, who ignored Kafka's requests to destroy his unfinished works after his death. Translated from the German by Will and Edwin Muir. The first of Kafka’s works to appear in English, issued in a single printing of roughly 500 to 1,000 copies. 8vo cloth.. Slight fade to spine else a nearly fine copy with small bookstore label on front pastedown. Lacking the dj.

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