The Trial
by Kafka, Franz
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1995. Red leather with gilt decorations. All edges gilt, satin ribbon, silk moire endpapers, and three raised spine bands accented wtih 22kt gold. Bookplate centered on verso of front free endpaper with former owners signature. . Collector's Library of Famous Editions. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Alan E. Comer . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004729
- Title
- The Trial
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Illustrator
- Alan E. Comer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Library of Famous Editions
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Conn
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Authors;
Terms of Sale
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- Verso
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