Life and Letters To-Day, Summer 1937
includes the first UK appearance of Franz Kafka's short story First Grief
Author
Robert Herring (editor)
Publisher
Brendin Publishing, London, 1937
Printing Details
Vol 16, No 8, card covers. 24.5 × 17.5cm, 196pp.
This is the Summer 1937 issue of Life and Letters and contains the first UK printing of the Franz Kafka short story, First Grief (translated by Lilian F Turner), a 3pp story about a trapeze artist who doesn't want to leave his perch which was originally written in 1921/22. This issue also contains Thomas Mann on Spain, other short stories and poetry, and reviews including George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier and Virginia Woolf's The Years.
Condition
A good copy, with the usual wear to the edges associated with journals of this age. The inner binding is intact and the pages are clean, is a little tanned and with a few small curls to the corners.