This ULTRA RARE UNREAD vintage leather masterpiece of literature and bookmaking from The Oxford University Press is in NEAR PERFECT condition. There are no markings inside or out, and there are no attached bookplates. The spine is strong and very tight. The satin ribbon bookmark is stiff and unfrayed. The corners are sharp and straight. The golden embellishments are vivid and vibrant. The gold leaf protecting the text block is virtually flawless. Everything is bright and shiny... it even still retains that pleasant fresh new book smell. This particular book is an exemplary model of this brilliant vintage edition. If by some miracle you find another one of these, you'd have to be blessed with another miracle for it to be in brand new condition like this one.

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'The Trial' is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even went so far as to call Dostoevsky a blood relative. Like Kafka's two other novels, The Castle and Amerika, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which appears to bring the story to an intentionally abrupt ending. In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.