"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1902. [Strange Tales and Mysteries]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Seventeen volumes. Crown octavo (16 x 11 x 39cm). With frontispiece engravings. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting green and brown labels to spines, gilt decoration to spines and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers; top edges gilt. Illustrated bookplates of James Wheeler to front pastedown of each volume. Bindings lightly rubbed to extremities, more so to the spine ends of a few volumes, a few corners a little bumped. Just starting in places. Occasional underlining and notes in pencil. Tape repairs to pp.159/60 of volume I. A handsome presentation. Item #50782
Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature (1983), volume VII, 16172.
Price: £1,850.00