[Item #58362] Franz Kafka: a Biography. KAFKA, Max BROD, transl G. Humphreys-Roberts.

Franz Kafka: a Biography

New York: Schocken Books, 1947. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (21cm). Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 236,[8]pp. Fine copy. In the original photo-portrait dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); mildly toned at spine and extremities; Very Good+. Original publisher's prospectus laid in. With the printed bookplate of noted collector James Treat Parker inside front cover.

First English-language edition of the first full-length biography of Kafka, by his close friend and literary executor Max Brod. The German-language edition appeared in Prague in 1937. Translated from the German by G. Humphreys-Roberts.

Price: $150.00

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