The Castle

No book-club issue of the 1926 Kurt Wolff first is documented; the cloth-with-labels and printed-wrappers states are publisher's issues, not club issues. For the English text the traps are 'first thus': later Secker, Secker & Warburg, Knopf, Modern Library and Schocken printings of the Muir translation, editions incorporating Brod's additional material, and the later re-translations (Harman, Underwood, Bell) are separate editions rather than printings of the 1930 firsts. A rebound copy lacking the original cloth and labels cannot be authenticated on binding evidence and must be identified from the imprint and date alone.