Ernst Kaiser Translators (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with DJ. Purple cloth over boards with gilt and black lettering. Black DJ with white, black and red lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1966. 222 pages. Good condition. Covers clean and square. Some sunning to edges. DJ in good shape, but has minor shelf wear to edges. Binding stiff. Pages clean and free of marks.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Noonday Press, New York, 1958.VERY GOOD+ in illustrated wraps, as issued. Previous owner's name on first page is covered with a white sticker. Faint stain on inside cover. First Softcover Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. Modern Library Edition. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., February 1969. First (1st) Printing of the First Modern Library edition as evidenced by the following: (1) "Modern Library Edition, February 1969" stated on copyright page; (2) Fujita endpapers (subsequent printings have blank endpapers); (3) Toledano Binding Style 13 (Spine all in silver, Fujita torchbearer and 4 7/8" x 7 3/8") . Fine in a Fine- mylar-protected Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full dark blue cloth, color uniform throughout, with blindstamped lowercase "ml" inscribed within large blindstamped single line design to the front board, bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked green and light yellow Fujita endpapers, and all corners square and sharp, bottom front corner showing light wear. The mylar-protected Dust Jacket (Toledano Back Style Gi) is bright, colors uniform throughout, and price clipped with a small tear at the top rear fold discreetly closed from behind with archival pH neutral materials. See the photos. xvii, 481, [ix] pages, including an Appendix with a Continuation of the Manuscript, Another Version of the Opening Paragraphs, Fragments and Passages Deleted by the Author. 4 7/8" x 7 3/8". Text Translated from the German Das Schloss along with the Homage by Thomas Mann by Willa and Edwin Muir; the additional sections have been translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. The author's last novel, it was originally published in German in 1926. Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes, hence the problems establishing a definitive text. Dark and surreal, the novel is about alienation in a world increasingly dominated by bureaucracy and totalitarianism.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. ex library hardback in green cloth boards, usual library stamps/markings. 1954 edition published by Secker & Warburg, London translated from German by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser - boards worn & faded & page edges little grubby otherwise a clean, sound copy. Will despatch within 24 hours from Uk. 34B*. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First UK edition, in three volumes. Secker & Warburg, 1955/1954/1960 respectively; Vol. 1 is a stated second printing, Vols. 2 and 3 are first printings with no additional printings indicated; xxxv, 365pp. / vii, 454pp. / xi, 445pp. From the collection of Jack D. Zipes, noted scholar of German folklore and literature, with his signature on the front paste-down of each volume and his pen notations in the translators' foreword of Vols. 1 and 3. Bindings are tight and sturdy; faint damp-stains on bottom edge of Vol. 1 and 3's front and rear boards, else only minor wear to edges of green cloth boards, gilt/mauve titling on spines remains bright and bold; text very good throughout set (besides Prof. Zipes's underlining mentioned above); faint foxing to top edge of page blocks. Mild wear, toning to edges of clipped dust jackets, mild toning to spine panels as well; jackets arrive wrapped in protective mylar. The earliest English-language edition of this classic of German modernism, straight from the library of one of America's preeminent scholars of German literature and culture. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First American Edition. Publisher: Coward-McCann, New York, 1954. FINE Hardcover. Lacking the Dust-Jacket. Nice sharp corners. Binding tight. First US Edition, First Printing. Volume 2 only.

dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.446 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and red typographic dust-jacket. A little toned to edges, otherwise crisp and clean. Price-clipped jacket toned, more-so to spine, with light general wear and some chipping to edges. Very good. A collection of six short prose pieces, first published in German in 1953.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is foxed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears and chips. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block and endpapers are tanned and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THE TRILOGY COMPLETE. All 1st edition/1st impressions. Green cloth with gilt titles without foxing and without inscription in not price clipped dust jackets, [see photos]. Vol 1 is complete without tears; vols 2 and 3 are almost complete; vol 3 has a small amount of staining [see photo]. They are now protected by removable transparent wrappers. Do contact me for more information/photos.…