KAFKA, Franz. The Castle. Trans. from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Martin Secker. 1930. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Superbly bound in Nigerian goatskin leather by Stephen Conway, with titles in black to spine and enlarged to the front board imitating the scarce original dust jacket’s titling. Attractively stitched headband, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom oatmeal slipcase with cushioned foot. A fine copy, with a handful of very mild singular spots to prelims, but without stamps or inscriptions.
An ostensible Land Surveyor, K., summoned on business to the castle is denied entry to it by its mysteriously infuriating bureaucratic officials. Kafka’s third and final novel, published posthumously by his great friend, Max Brod, under the title Das Schloss, in 1926. The Castle was the English-speaking world’s introduction to Kafka—The Trial and The Metamorphosis didn’t appear until 1937—and it remains one of his most important works and indeed one of the great works of alienation and existential angst.
KAFKA, Franz. The Castle. Trans. from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. London: Martin Secker. 1930. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Superbly bound in Nigerian goatskin leather by Stephen Conway, with titles in black to spine and enlarged to the front board imitating the scarce original dust jacket’s titling. Attractively stitched headband, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom oatmeal slipcase with cushioned foot. A fine copy, with a handful of very mild singular spots to prelims, but without stamps or inscriptions.
An ostensible Land Surveyor, K., summoned on business to the castle is denied entry to it by its mysteriously infuriating bureaucratic officials. Kafka’s third and final novel, published posthumously by his great friend, Max Brod, under the title Das Schloss, in 1926. The Castle was the English-speaking world’s introduction to Kafka—The Trial and The Metamorphosis didn’t appear until 1937—and it remains one of his most important works and indeed one of the great works of alienation and existential angst.
