KAFKA, Franz, and Jean CARRIVE, translator.

L’épée. Deux textes suivis d’un N.B. du traducteur.

Paris, [Imprimerie des 2 Artisans], 1939.

8vo, pp. [8], plus initial and final blanks; an excellent copy in the original printed wrappers.

£250

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US $313 €291

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L’épée. Deux textes suivis d’un N.B. du traducteur.

First separate edition in French of Das Schwert, and of an aphorism from Er: Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahre 1920 (‘Er war früher Teil einer monumentalen Gruppe…’). The translations, by Jean Carrive, first appeared in Giration in July 1939, and are issued here as a tirage à part.

OCLC records three copies only (Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques-Doucet, BnF).

Hemmerle, p. 43.

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