Selected Stories of Franz Kafka
by KAFKA, Franz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir. Introduction by Philip Rahv. Small 8vo. Pale red blind-embossed cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 328pp. Near fine/very good. Small front pastedown ownership signature; text block moderately age toned as usual; faint jacket edgewear. Quite tight and attractive later printing of #283, first published by Modern Library in 1952 and here based on binding/jacket details of late1960s vintage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46028
- Title
- Selected Stories of Franz Kafka
- Author
- KAFKA, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- n.y.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; World Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....