Diaries 1914-23 by Kafka, Franz - 1949

New York: Schocken Books, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing as confirmed by McBride. Book is in very good condition with a little bit of shelf wear and tiny staining on bottom, slight fading of top stain around top of book and slight tanning of endpapers. Otherwise, tight, straight with rigid boards. Clean inside with no previous owner marks, stiff spine, rigid boards and pointed tips. Good plus dust jacket is not price clipped but has 5" by 2" strip out of front cover at bottom, and loss, crumple and frey at spine ends and top front with soil on back cover. Dresses up nicely in shiny new plastic dust jacket cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing..

Schocken Books, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. 1/2"" V chip to rear corner of jacket; tiny 1/8"" round chip to corner edge of jacket spine; otherwise a whole, unclipped and clean jacket. Book is fine.

SCHOCKEN BOOKS. NY 1949. Fine. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First English language edition. Fine in very good+ or better dust jacket. (Traces of light rubbing to jacket. A few short edge tears & tiny chips in jacket. ) SECOND volume of Kafka's diaries. .