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(Corti) KAFKA, Franz: Au bagne. Marseille: Les cahiers du Sud, 1939. One volume paperback in-12° in red and black printed covers, small witnesses preserved, largely uncut. ORIGINAL French EDITION, in volume, of this famous short story by Franz Kafka (La colonie pénitentiaire). Separate, off-price edition of the French translation by Jean Carrive, published in the December 1938 issue of the Revue Les cahiers du Sud, at 150 numbered or lettered copies. Ours, 1 of 10 first copies on Hollande (actually on BFK watermarked laid paper of Rives), ex. n°P. Small handwritten corrections in black ink on pages 34 and 39. IN NEW CONDITION.ATTACHED: SEBILLOTTE, L.H.: Notes sur Kafka. Offprint from the journal "L'évolution psychiatrique", N°I, year 1956. A small stapled booklet in-4° from pp. 339 to 355. Enriched with a handwritten letter from the author : " To Mr. and Mrs. Corti. A draft of my work that I did not despair quite to carry out. As a token of my faithful gratitude. L.H. Sebilotte. June 9, 1956 ". VERY GOOD SET.
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(Corti) KAFKA, Franz: Au bagne. Marseille: Les cahiers du Sud, 1939. One volume paperback in-12° in red and black printed covers, small witnesses preserved, largely uncut. ORIGINAL French EDITION, in volume, of this famous short story by Franz Kafka (La colonie pénitentiaire). Separate, off-price edition of the French translation by Jean Carrive, published in the December 1938 issue of the Revue Les cahiers du Sud, at 150 numbered or lettered copies. Ours, 1 of 10 first copies on Hollande (actually on BFK watermarked laid paper of Rives), ex. n°P. Small handwritten corrections in black ink on pages 34 and 39. IN NEW CONDITION.ATTACHED: SEBILLOTTE, L.H.: Notes sur Kafka. Offprint from the journal "L'évolution psychiatrique", N°I, year 1956. A small stapled booklet in-4° from pp. 339 to 355. Enriched with a handwritten letter from the author : " To Mr. and Mrs. Corti. A draft of my work that I did not despair quite to carry out. As a token of my faithful gratitude. L.H. Sebilotte. June 9, 1956 ". VERY GOOD SET.
