Books and Manuscripts

Kafka, Franz
The Castle
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American edition. 8vo. xi, (i), 339, (3) pp. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. Publisher's light grey cloth, stamped in black and in blue, spine and boards unevenly faded; top edge stained grey; in original price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, small loses and tears along edges, small holes and abrasions to spine and front and rear panels. Flores, p. 15

Scarce first American edition of Kafka's final and unfinished novel, and his first full-length work translated into English.