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Ein Landarzt / A Country
Doctor
by Franz Kafka
Janus Press, 1962
12 x 8 1/2 x 1/2 inches
2000
Long stitch binding with
Twinrocker's HMP grey with fleck endpapers. Cover
is alum tawed goat spine with birch boards that are
painted and spattered. The interior of the box is
also painted to continue the snow storm of the book
cover. This bilingual book has relief etchings by
the binder.
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"The text is the story of a doctor called out in
a raging snow storm to cure a boy who is incurable;
the onlookers and family turn on the doctor because
he is not God and send him naked back into the
storm."
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