Kafka (Franz) America.
£250
Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir
London, Routledge, 1938.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
Kafka’s first novel, assembled posthumously, satirises American optimism and bureaucracy.
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Light foxing, otherwise a good copy.
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