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Franz KAFKA. WOLS, Otto. The Guest of the Dead.
See original version (French)
210
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Franz KAFKA. WOLS, Otto. The Guest of the Dead.
See original version (French)
Estimate €700 - €900
Voluntary lot
Description
Franz KAFKA. WOLS, Otto.
The Guest of the Dead.
Paris, Presses du Livre français, 1948.
Large 8vo, 28 pp., partly in the original format, 4 drypoint etchings in black by Otto Wols. Modern paperback with flaps, cover illustrated by Wols (spine slightly sun-faded, top of cover similarly affected, and very slight oxidation of the paper on the engravings, but a fine copy that has remained in good condition).
Note:
First edition of the French translation by Marthe Robert.
Single print run, as the copper plates were scraped after printing.
Limited to 270 copies. One of the 100 printed at Montval with the 4 engravings, numbered 61.
A collection containing three other little-known short stories by Kafka: ‘In Our Synagogue’, ‘The Sword’ and
‘New Lamps’.
‘The reader who wishes to enter Kafka’s world first pauses, dazzled, overwhelmed, wounded and drawn in all at once; but as soon as they have crossed the threshold, they recognise the all-powerful influence of this world on their own life and that they are not as well-protected, as impenetrable, as that first encounter had led them to believe”, Marthe Robert (1946)
MODERN ART. LYRICAL ABSTRACTION. ARTIST’S BOOK.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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