The Trial
by Kafka, Franz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. c. 1960. Definitive Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth (Style 8, Blumenthal design), gilt lettering on black panels on cover and spine, with Kent torchbearers, t.e.g. (black), printed Kent endpapers. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir; revised, and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. . The volume is mildly shelf-worn, with some underlining throughout, and one spot on the spine, else fine. The unclipped dust jacket (the unique Kafka back with the left-side blocks, now in Mylar) is moderately chipped and worn at the head and heel, with small loss, and along the edges. The interior of the dust jacket lists 405 titles. VERY GOOD/GOOD.. The Modern Library of the World's Best Books Series. Vol. 318. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. vi, 341, (1-advert) pp .
Synopsis
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert CamusThe terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27311
- Title
- The Trial
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Definitive Edition. Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c. 1960
- Keywords
- Literature;, Novels;, Modern Library;, Fiction;, Franz Kafka;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Social Sciences;
Terms of Sale
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Palatine, Illinois
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- 12mo
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- Heel
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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