Verwandlung The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

$8,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915. First edition, first printing, case-bound issue. Text in German. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards stamped in black; spine sympathetically replaced. Near Fine, boards are lightly toned and soiled with wear at corners, slight foxing to endsheets. The first book appearance of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, issued simultaneously in wraps and boards, a landmark of 20th century

• Printing: first

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