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The Trial: Definitive Edition (Modern Library #318.1)
by KAFKA, Franz
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1963]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Kafka's acclaimed novel, which tells the absurdist tale of a bank clerk who is arrested on unspecified charges by an unspecified authority and put on trial for that unknown crime. This English language version with an appendix in which Kafka friend and literary executor Max Brod has restored certain passages which were written by the author but which were not included in the original text of the novel. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Revised, and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. Illustrated by George Salter. --- In rather scarce Toledano spine 9 / green cloth / gilt titling & decorations on spine / blindstamped oval torchbearer on cover / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso advertises 415 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1963 (1956 date appears in book). ML #318.1. --- Interior with frequent inked underlinings and notations, and blindstamped cover ML device has been neatly filled in with black ink, else a sound copy. Unclipped dust jacket with taped number to spine, and with bruises, chips and tears & ticked-off titles to verso; in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; vi, 341 pages .
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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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85570
- Title
- The Trial: Definitive Edition (Modern Library #318.1)
- Author
- KAFKA, Franz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1963]
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Reprint
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
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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....
- Device
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