IN THE PENAL COLONY

-The Limited Editions Club-

1987

First Thus (In a limited edition of 800 numbered copies)

By: Franz Kafka

The Limited Editions Club [New York]

4to (54 pages, illustrated with four tipped-in black & white lithographs)

Hardcover [Linen cloth]

Item Number: 14026

$450.00

Description

As-new copy of this elegant rendering of Kafka’s excruciating work, hand-sewn and hand-bound in vellum paper over parchment boards, housed in a linen-covered clamshell box. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Number 673 of 800 numbered copies signed by the artist on the colophon page. A virtually mint copy.