KAFKA, Franz.

In der Strafkolonie.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1919.

Large 8vo, pp. 71, printed on thick paper, title printed in blue and black; a fine, large copy in the original half leather binding with green marbled paper boards, top edges gilt, other edges uncut; in a folding cloth box.

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First edition, one of 1000 copies printed, of Kafka’s story In the Penal Colony.

Dietz 50; Raabe 146.5; Wilpert/Gühring 5.

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