London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. First UK edition. Ix, 217pp. Brown textured paper over boards; dust jacket. Light toning to textblock edges. Else near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped, with toning to spine, rear panel, and edges.
First English-language edition of the debut novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), originally published in 1906. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, with a preface by Alan Pryce-Jones.
