The Castle

The German 'Das Schloss' (Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich, 1926) is the true first edition. The census claim that Secker, London, 1930 PRECEDES Knopf, New York, 1930 is NOT confirmed and is corrected here: dealers citing the standard Kafka bibliography (Angel Flores, cited as 'Flores, 15') record the Knopf first English translation as 'published simultaneously with the British edition'. Both 1930 English firsts carry the Willa and Edwin Muir translation with an introduction by Edwin Muir, and both are collected: Martin Secker, London, 1930 (note the imprint is Martin Secker — not Secker & Warburg, which did not exist until 1936; the frequent 'Secker & Warburg 1930' attribution, including on Wikipedia, is an anachronism) and Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930, in publisher's grey cloth stamped in black and blue with a grey top-edge stain. No precedence should be asserted between the two English editions.