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Kurt Wolff. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket 2nd edition. Spine cover missing. (woodcuts, stories in pictures)

München (Kurt Wolff), 1928.. (4)ff., 25 plates after woodcuts. Sm. 4to. Publisher’s boards (chipped).

1924. Small 4to. Oboards. Wrappers with tears. Back loose.

München: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1924. 2. Auflage. Hardcover . Good. slight library mark new boards

Muenchen: Kurt Wolff, 1928. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Short story or novella without words. Capturing the rawness and strife of modern life, especially the harshness of life in Weimar Germany. Depicting, among other things, the individual against the impersonal state. 8vo. 22.5 by 19.5 cm. Title, half title, followed by 25 woodcuts (linoleum cuts), one per leaf, all on the rectos, xxx leaf, and two pages of ads listing other Masereel titles. 29 leaves in all. Light scattered stains on paper pastedown of cover. Clean within generally.

Kurt Wolff, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Minor tears to dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Generally clean.

Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1927.. Spine defective, otherwise a very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp.. Edition: Second edition., Binding: Original publisher’s paper boards with title and vignette to upper board, spine defective. , Notes: The publisher, Kurt Wolff, was an influential German publisher who was responsible for the skyrocketing success of Franz Kafka’s early career. This book, telling the story of a poor worker fighting for workers’ rights, juxtaposes the humanist sentiment invoked by a young man’s being made to suffer in a capitalist society with the cruel rigidity identified with the traditional family, the factory, the police, and eventually the church and the courts. The motif of a man bearing a cross seen on the cover and the title seems in this context a stark contrast with the crucifix depicted in the trial plate, seeking to identify the young man with Jesus, different from the unjust system identified with the crucifix., Size: Square 8vo. , Illustration:… Read More

Muenchen: Kurt Wolff. Printed by C. Wolf & Sohn, Muenchen, Spring 1921. Limited Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine. Large paper copy of this short story or novella without words. No. 363 of 750 copies, this "Auf feinstes Hadernpapier", or the finest rag paper, printed, and using the original woodcuts of the first edition which was printed in 1918. Capturing the rawness and strife of modern life, especially the harshness of life in Weimar Germany. Depicting, among other things, the individual against the impersonal state. 4to. 28 by 23 cm. Title, half title, followed by 25 woodcuts (linoleum cuts), one per leaf, all on the rectos, and limitation page. 30 leaves in all. The large margins, here perfectly clean, help draw the eye to the stark, and disturbing, imagery of struggle and dystopia. Some edgewear to binding. Clean and tight -- internally Fine.