FIRST EDITION of a short story `The Judgment` (`Das Urteil`) about the relationship between a man and his father written by Franz Kafka (1883-1924) in 1912. First published in the periodical `Arkadia - Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst` in 1913, the story was published separately by the same publisher in 1916. The publication date on the dust-jacket is wrongly stated 1917, the title page gives the correct year - 1916. 215x135mm. 29 pages. Softcover with dust-jacket. Jacket browning. Jacket edges tattered. Upper corner of jacket and cover near spine partly missing. Jacket and cover partly detached from binding. Ex-libris sticker on front inner cover. Pages upper corner near binding bumped. Pages rough-cut as published. Pages slightly yellowing, some pages age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a story by one of the greatest 20th century writers has sustained some external wear to cover, but is otherwise in good condition.