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Selected Stories Of Franz Kakfa (Modern Library #283.1)
by KAFKA, Franz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. This Modern Library edition includes 15 stories by the master of the genre, Franz Kafka. Includes his "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "The Great Wall of China" and 12 others. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, and with introduction by Philip Rahv. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / faded green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 372 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (though 1952 date appears in book). ML #283.1. --- With adhesive residue to front & rear endpapers, speckles to front panel, general age-toning to leaves and penciling to at least one leaf; otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with chafing and small tears to extremities, else bright, intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxii, 328 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83733
- Title
- Selected Stories Of Franz Kakfa (Modern Library #283.1)
- Author
- KAFKA, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1955]
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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