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The Trial
by Kafka, Franz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First published in 1937; reprinted eight times.This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the tenth printing. Rust-coloured cloth binding with titling on the spine in black. The front cover is has a line drawing of a courtroom scene, stamped in black and blue. Clean text; 288 pages, followed by a nine-page Epilogue by Kafka's executor Max Brod. Textblock is bright and fresh; lightly bumped; a crease on the rear panel. A superior reading copy of this classic. No dustjacket.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 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
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006397
- Title
- The Trial
- Author
- Kafka, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Cloth
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