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Titel: DIE VERWANDLUNG [The Metamorphosis]
Verlag: Kurt Wolff Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum: 1915
Auflage: 1st Edition
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Kafka, Franz. DIE VERWANDLUNG [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig; Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. First edition. 8vo., 73 pp + 5 pp of advertisements at rear. Original buff pictorial outer wrapper printed in red and black on the upper cover with Ottomar Starke’s famous illustration of a man recoiling in horror; the outer wrapper over plain red paper covers. An essentially near fine, excellent copy showing minimal use of this Kafka masterpiece often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and one of the most frequently analyzed. One fingerprint sized spot of soiling at the lower front edge of the first few pages otherwise contents clean & unblemished. The work was completed by Kafka in 1912 and published by Wolff, November 1915, band 22-23 [double issue] - the cover shows 1916 as a "Cover Date" as called for with band 22-23 clearly identified. Die Verwandlung first appeared in German in the Berlin journal, Die Weissen Blatter, 10-12 [1915]. A second edition was published by Wolff in 1918. "Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic vermin." Kafka's vision of humanity's absurd relationship with the universe, the psychological, social, political, and metaphysical instability and confusion that defy logical explanation have inspired the term "Kafkaesque". In Kafka: A Writer’s Life, Joachim Unseld estimated that no more than 1000 copies were originally published by Wolff which sold out quickly. The wrappers format was well read and subject to wear easily making fine collectible copies very uncommon. The English language edition didn't appear until 1937. A superior example of this important work normally found quite worn if found at all. Custom Clamshell case. Buchnummer des Verkäufers
DIE VERWANDLUNG [The Metamorphosis] und Kafka, Franz. : Suchergebnisse
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1948. Buchzustand: Good. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. Paperback. Bilingual Ed. Used, good. Cover has some rubbing. Cover has some edge wear. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 7481313
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1948. Buchzustand: Good. Bilingual. N/A. Former Library book. HARDCOVER. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Buchnummer des Verkäufers GRP32456462
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1948. Paperback. Buchzustand: Good. Shipped within 24 hours. 100% Refund Guaranteed. Good copy with average wear. No dust jacket. Buchnummer des Verkäufers sku4gcm9
The Metamorphosis: Die Verwandlung
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1968. Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. This copy shows very minor wear. Buchnummer des Verkäufers G0805201726I4N00
The Metamorphosis/die Verwandlung Bilingual Edition
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1969. Buchzustand: Good. N/A. Former Library book. LIBRARY REBIND. HARDCOVER. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Buchnummer des Verkäufers GRP59419422
The Metamorphosis: Die Verwandlung
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1968. Sixth printing, 1972. Book has signs of wear, but remains fully functioning and easily readable. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 14766067BR2105tol
The Metamorphosis/die Verwandlung Bilingual Edition
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, NY, 1969. Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. Third Printing. In German with English translation on verso page. A lovely copy. ; 8vo ; 127 pages. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 208631
The Metamorphosis Die Verwandlung
Buchbeschreibung: SHocken Books Inc, New York, 1971. Soft Cover-Couverture Souple. Buchzustand: Good - Bonne. 5th Printing/5ieme Impression. Born and brought up in Prague at a time when Czechoslovakia was trying to come to terms with the modernism of the surrounding world, It tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his father and sister. He wakes up to find he has changed into a beetle, and cannot move easily or communicate with his family, who consequently turn their back on Samsa. Partly autobiographical in an allegorical sense, it expresses Kafka's uneasy relationship with his family and is a reaction to a bourgeois and materialistic society in which the intellectual is regarded as 'vermin' to be restricted and crushed by economic and social demands. bilingual english/ Deutch 127 pages FREE POSTAGE IN CANADA- POST PAYEE EN CANADA. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 001508
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, 1948. Paperback. Buchzustand: Used: Good. Previous Owner's name on end paper, pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. Covers are rubbed one edges and creased.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 61736
Die Verwandlung / Ein Landarzt (Korean Edition) : The Metamorphosis
Buchbeschreibung: Minumsa, 2010. Buchzustand: Good. N/A. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Buchnummer des Verkäufers GRP59667460
The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung [In Japanese Language]
Buchbeschreibung: Shinchosha. Buchzustand: Used - Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter. Buchnummer des Verkäufers IU-06-06-10-0011
The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung [In Japanese Language]
Buchbeschreibung: Shinchosha, 1952. Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Paperback in dust-jacket. Light bumping and wear on dust-jacket. In nice condition. [office]. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 021821
The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung [In Japanese Language]
Buchbeschreibung: Shinchosha, 1952. Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Paperback in dust-jacket. Light wear on dust-jacket. Highlighting on first page. In nice condition. [office]. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 021835
Die Verwandlung / Ein Landarzt (Korean Edition) : The Metamorphosis
Buchbeschreibung: Minumsa, 2010. Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Buchnummer des Verkäufers G8937460041I4N00
The Metamorphosis/ Die Verwandlung (Bilingual Edition)
Buchbeschreibung: Schocken Books, New York, 1948. Trade Paperback. Buchzustand: Very Good. Coyright 1948. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 127 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Text in English and German. Bi-Lingual-Book. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 3iiiCd0015
The Metamorphosis / Die Verwandlung [In Japanese Language]
Buchbeschreibung: Shinchosha, 1952. Buchzustand: Good. N/A. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Buchnummer des Verkäufers GRP57498327
Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]
Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig Kurt Wolff, 1915. First Edition KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, [1915]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 inches; 208 x 128 mm). [1]-72-[73], [1, blank], [5, ads], [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s quarter parchment over printed blue boards with publisher’s emblem in the middle. Front cover and spine lettered in black. Top edges blue. Top edge of boards, slightly darkened. Spine with a bit of rubbing. Previous owner's ink signature dated 1916 inside ruled border on title-page. Housed in a full cloth clamshell, with tan morocco spine labels. Overall a very good copy. "Written between November 17 and December 7, 1912 during the fit of creative passion that also saw the birth of Das Urteil [The Judgement] and the first chapter of Der Verschollen (Der Heizer) [(The Stoker)].This ‘exceptionally repulsive story’ is the most sustained work of fiction published during Kafka’s lifetime and the one with which his name is most profoundly associated in the common consciousness: it is the story of Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a giant insect. The strange allegory of alienation—from the self, from one’s very body, from the family, and by analogy from society, the state and the whole of mankind—is one of the defining works of the twentieth-century consciousness. In his critical hierarchy of the great prose works of the Twentieth Century, Vladimir Nabokov rates Die Verwandlung second behind only James Joyce’s Ulysses" (The Breon Mitchell Collection of the Works of Franz Kafka, p. 7). Deitz 26. HBS 65383. $5,000. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 65383
Die Verwandlung [Metamorphosis].
Buchbeschreibung: Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig, 1915, 1915. Octavo. Original japon backed blue paper boards, titles to upper board and spine in black, top edge stained blue. With the censor's small rubber stamp to the title page as often. Boards a little tanned but an excellent copy. First edition, first printing, the uncommon case-bound issue. The publication of this work - the first of Kafka's masterpieces was a rather confused affair. Two basic issues were intended, one in wrappers the other bound in boards. Sales seem not to have been good and after a year or so numerous copies remaining unsold were stamped on the title pages with the official stamp of the German censors. Possibly at this time a second - cheaper looking binding was put out with wove paper and poorer stamping to the boards and spine. Unquestionably one of the most influential works of fiction produced in the 20th century - a nightmare in prose. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 35113
Die Verwandlung (Metamorphosis)
Buchbeschreibung: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1916. Soft cover. Buchzustand: Near Fine. Near perfect copy of Kafka’s story, rare in any condition. This copy is from the legendary proper first edition with Ottomar Starke’s cover of man recoiling in horror at . (Last hammer price for this at Hauswedell and Nolte in Hamburg was €8000; and at Sotheby’s, June 2006 in New York it was $10,000.). Buchnummer des Verkäufers INDE-C70384
Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, (1915). First German edition, first printing. 8vo. Appears rebound in full buff cloth with the title in gilt on a leather label on the spine. With marbleized endpapers. Originally published with a cover featuring an illustration by Ottomar Starke. [1]-72-[73], [1, blank], [5, pub. ads], [1, blank] pp. This book was part of a vast collection of German language books owned by one Georg Hirschfeld. I believe the owner to be the German realist writer Georg Hirschfeld (1873-1942) most widely known as the author of Die Mütter (1896). Many of the books (although not this one) bear an armorial bookplate and a signature, images of which can be furnished upon request. This copy is in very-good plus condition with some illegible [to me!] writing in pen to the titlepage right above the triple-lined border decoration. There are no other markings or writing within the book. The binding is strong and tight with some light wear/toning to the cover cloth as well as the leather title label. The interior pages are mostly clean with some light spotting/toning in a few places. Overall, a very attractive copy of the true first edition of this modern masterpiece by Kafka. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 1638
Die Verwandlung [Metamorphosis].
Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915, 1915. Octavo. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black, illustration by Ottomar Starke. Wrappers marked and somewhat rubbed, some light repair. Very good. First edition, first printing. The publication of this work - the first of Kafka's masterpieces was a rather confused affair. Two basic issues were intended, one in wrappers the other bound in boards. Sales seem not to have been good and after a year or so numerous copies remaining unsold were stamped on the title pages with the official stamp of the German censors. This copy has no stamp to the title page and is presumed to be one of the earliest issued. Unquestionably one of the most influential works of fiction produced in the 20th century - a nightmare in prose. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 76354
Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]
Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1915, 1915. Soft cover. Buchzustand: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis; the rare wrappers issue in outstanding condition. With the famous illustration by Ottomar Starke on the front wrapper. Kafka was adamant that the illustration not depict a bug, writing in a letter to the publishing house: “"The insect itself must not be illustrated by a drawing. It cannot be shown at all, not even from a distance." Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1915. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers (dated 1916 as always) over olive paper covers; custom cloth box. With three ad leafs at rear. A spot of discoloration and two pencil notations at base of front wrapper. A magnificent copy, extremely rare in such fine condition. Buchnummer des Verkäufers ABE-7507556131
DIE VERWANDLUNG [THE METAMORPHOSIS]
Buchbeschreibung: Leipzig; Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. First edition. Original buff pictorial wrappers, titled on the upper cover in red and black, over olive paper covers. 5pp of adverts to rear. A very good copy indeed, which has minor wear to the spine ends and a small mark to the upper cover, but is generally clean and crisp. Internally extremely clean and fresh. A very well preserved copy of this notoriously fragile item. Born and brought up in Prague at a time when Czechoslovakia was trying to come to terms with the modernism of the surrounding world, Kafka was the son of a loud, robust, bourgeois father. This relationship was an uneasy one for the thin, academic and often awkward Kafka, and paternal themes permeate a lot of Kafka's work particularly this, his most famous work. It tells the tale of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his father and sister. He wakes up to find he has changed into a beetle, and cannot move easily or communicate with his family, who consequently turn their back on Samsa. Partly autobiographical in an allegorical sense, it expresses Kafka's uneasy relationship with his family and is a reaction to a bourgeois and materialistic society in which the intellectual is regarded as 'vermin' to be restricted and crushed by economic and social demands. Die Verwandlung was the second of Kafka's works to appear in Kurt Wolff's series 'Der Jüngste Tag'. Unseld estimates the initial print run was no more than 1000 copies which quickly sold and the book was reprinted in 1918. An English translation appeared in 1937. Its perceptions make it one of the most significant works in the development of twentieth century consciousness. Vladimir Nabokov, who ranked The Metamorphosis second only to Ulysses in his critique of twentieth century prose, described Kafka as, "the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him." Unseld p 374. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 14474
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