"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Of Human Bondage.
New York: George H. Doran, 1915. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, prior to British edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.648; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt. Contents clean, no inscriptions, inside joints pulled/cracked as usual (heavy text block), covers a little rubbed to extremities, soft vertical crease to spine. Very good indeed. Earliest state of the text, with 'help' for 'helped' p.257, line 4, and no publisher device on copyright page. The author's defining novel. Item #73646
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