Metamorphosis by KAFKA, Franz - 1946

(New York): Vanguard Press, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Drawings by Leslie Sherman. Ownership signature of poet Daniel Hoffman, front hinge starting, near fine or better in about very good dustwrapper with small chips and moderate tears. Hoffman's first collection of poems, *An Armada of Thirty Whales* (1954), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.H. Auden. In addition to publishing several other volumes of poetry and important works of criticism, he also later served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974. A presentable copy of one of the classic novellas of 20th Century literature. Scarce.