Franz Kafka's Amerika: The New Classics, 1948, New Directions, Near Fine w/DJ

Kafka, Franz, Klaus Mann (Preface), Edwin Muir (Translation), and Max Brod (Afterword). Franz Kafka's Amerika: The New Classics (New York: New Directions, 1948).

English, a Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, HC, 8vo, 7 1/4" x 5," 277 pp.

Near Fine gray cloth binding. Covers have light age toning, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Near Fine red, white, and blue pictorial paper dust jacket. Red and white lettering on blue spine. Dust jacket has slight wear to extremities, slight rubbing, and light age toning, else clean and intact, not price-clipped. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. First novel by Franz Kafka (1883-1924), never completed, though Kafka had instructed his friend, Max Brod, to destroy the manuscript upon his passing, Brod ignored his friend's instructions and had it, among other titles, published posthumously. Cover design by famous American graphic designer and typographer, Alvin Lustig.