The Trial by Kafka, Franz; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir; revised, with additional matierals translated by E M Butler - 1956

New York: Modern Library, 1956. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with the torchbearer blind stamped on the front; gilt text on the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. This is Modern Library Number 318. Includes a few sketches by George Salter (Salter is not identified in this earlier printing). Later printings of this Modern Library edition (1967 and after) have a one-page biography at the end of the book plus a drawing of a courtroom scene on the title page -- the facing page identifies Salter as the artist. The ''Definitive Edition''; the publisher's blurb explains that this ''contains more than 10,000 words not included in the first American edition. Max Brod Kafka' literary executor and closest friend, has restored in an Appendix uncompleted chapters and passages deleted b Kafka, making this the definitive edition of this great work.'' Rockwell Kent endpapers; dust jacket rear panel style J with the Left-Side Block variation unique to The Trial; binding style 9. Dating from the reverse side of the jacket: 415 titles; includes Hesse, Steppenwolf; does not include Ellison, Invisible Man; thus Spring, 1963. small 8vo (7.25 inches tall) 340 pages + ads.