Vor dem Gesetz [Devant la loi]

First edition of this almanac of the Neue Dichtung published by Kurt Wolff, featuring the first book-form appearance of Kafka’s short story "Vor dem Gesetz" (pp. 126-128). Covers sunned, tear to spine not lacking paper, chipping to spine-ends, and corners rubbed.

First edition of the short story "Vor dem Gesetz" (Before the Law), later published verbatim in Kafka’s masterpiece "Der Proceß" (The Trial). 

The story would subsequently be included in Kafka’s collection Ein Landarzt and only published separately in 1934 (ed. Heinz Politzer, Schocken Verlag, Berlin).

The almanac also includes contributions by Ernst Stadler, Carl Sternheim, Georg Trakl, Georg Heym, Walter Hasenclever, Albert Ehrenstein, Johannes Becher, Max Brod, Ernst Blass, Else Lasker-Schüler, René Schickele, Franz Werfel, Robert Walser, Francis Jammes, Kasimir Schmidt, Rudolf Leonhard, Arnold Zweig, Rabindranath Tagore...