Lot 215
Franz Kafka –"The Judgment" / "The Great Wall of China" – First Editions
1. Das Urteil, Eine Geschichte [The Judgment]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1916. German. 1st edition.
"The Judgment", short story by Franz Kafka, was first published in 1913 in the yearly literary magazine Arkadia (edited by Max Brod). The edition presented is the first "independent" edition of the book. Soft cover – black paper with a paper label printed in blue (the booklet was also printed in the same year with a beige paper binding with a white label). 29 pp, [1] pp, 21.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Tears around the spine and the binding's edges.
2. Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, Ungedruckte Erzahlungen und Prosa aus dem Nachlass [building of the Great Wall of China, prose and stories that have not been published, from the Estate]. Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1931. German. 1st edition. "Building the Great Wall of China", stories gathered from Franz Kafka's Estate, edited by Max Brod and Joachim Schoeps. Hard cover. 266 pp, [3] pp, 19 cm. Good condition. Slight foxing. Minor damages to binding. Faded spine.
