The Trial
by Franz Kafka
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. gilt lettering in black title boxes on red cloth covered boards in a price clipped black dust jacket. 12mo, 341 pages. Top front edge bumped.
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
- NWJBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020239
- Title
- The Trial
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 341
- Keywords
- fiction; Kafka
Terms of Sale
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...