Franz Kafka, America, first UK edition, 1938
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Franz Kafka, America, first UK edition, 1938

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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