Kafka Americana by Lethem, Jonathan & Carter Scholz - 1999

"Inspired by affection . . . . Extremely witty and intelligent. Publishers WeeklyPreviously published only in a signed, limited edition, Kafka Americana has achieved cult status. Norton now brings this reimagination of our labyrinthine world to a wider audience. In an act of literary appropriation, Lethem and Scholz seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of twentieth-century America. In the collaboratively written "Receding Horizon" Hollywood welcomes Kafka as scriptwriter for Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, with appropriately morbid results. Scholz's "The Amount to Carry" transports "the legal secretary of the Workman's Accident Insurance Institute" to a conference with fellow insurance executives Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, to muse on what can and can't be insured. And Lethem's "K for Fake" brings together Orson Welles, Jerry Lewis, and Rod Serling in a kangaroo trial in which Kafka faces fraudulent charges. Taking modernism's presiding genius for a… Read More

Subterranean, 1999-11-01. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Water damage to bottom edge of rear half of text block. Limited edition 80/600 copies signed by authors on presentation page. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases & scratches. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

CollectibleGood. The pages show normal wear and tear. There is a signature or handwriting on the inside front cover. Pages are clean! The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The dust jacket has stickers or sticker residue on it. This is an ex library book with sticker sand markings Some writing on the text block edge The book is slightly cocked Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Number 90 of 600 numbered copies. Signed by Lethem and Scholz on the limitation page. Fine copy in fine jacket. Jacket in Brodart protective sleeve.

Burton: Subterranean, 1999. 8vo. 100 pp. Black cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Number 218 of 600 copies printed. Signed by Jonathan Lehtem and Carter Scholz. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Subterranean. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!