WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY KAFKA AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY KOKOSCHKA
[KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]
Das bunte Buch.
Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.
8vo, pp. 207, 14 plates with illustrations by Karl Walser, Kokoschka, and others; a very good copy in the original orange stiff paper wrappers designed by Wilhelm Wagner; light sunning to wrappers, slight cracking to spine and with small loss at foot.
First edition of this literary almanack, containing Kafka’s short story Zum Nachdenken für Herrenreiter. The story had been published as part of Kafka’s first collection, Betrachtung, earlier in the year.
This was the first almanack published by Kurt Wolff, comprising twenty-six literary contributions by Blei, Brod, Hasenclever, Heym, Lasker-Schüler, Trakl, Viertel, Walser, Werfel, and others. It also includes (pp. 145–207) a full ‘Verlagsverzeichnis 1910–1913’, advertising works by Kafka among the many other authors published by Wolff.
Dietz 22; Hemmerle, p. 20.