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First Edition thus, First Printing (Limited Edition Club, 1987). Fine in a fine, sand cloth clamshell box. Presents as new. Limited to 800 copies, this being number 783.Includes four full-page lithographic plates by artist Michael Hafftka; printed on hand-made Japanese paper and protected by fine tissue guards. Signed Hafftka on the colophon. Octavo (7" x 10-1/4"). 53 pp. A stunning work and edition.In the Penal Colony is one of the best-known short stories by Franz Kafka. Indeed, it's widely regarded as Kafka's most acclaimed and widely discussed shorter work after The Metamorphosis. Kafka wrote In the Penal Colony over a period of two weeks in 1914, while he was at work on his novel, The Trial. He revised the story in 1918, as he was dissatisfied with the story's original ending, and it was published in 1919. Equal parts autobiographical, political, and theological in nature, it's a gripping tale that is as compelling and relevant today as when it was written.
Michael Hafftka (b. 1953) was born… Read More