"Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphasis]," by Franz Kafka with lithographic illustrations by Michail Karasik. Includes a signed and numbered lithograph and an essay by Wladimir Perts. Book and print are housed in a double slipcase - a paper over boards slipcase with a signed and numbered book plate within a thin unprinted cardboard slipcase. Texts in German. Prague, 1992. 322 × 265 mm. Karasik made three versions of Metamorphosis, a story by Franz Kafka. 1) When Karasik was invited to work in Hustopece u Brna in the Czech Republic, he printed an album of 8 single-page and 2 double-page lithographs illustrating the story in a 30 copy edition. These are housed with two lithographed title pages in German in a cardboard folder. 2) The same 10 illustrations, with the paper cut down to a smaller size, together with a Russian language translation of the text were published in a 100 copy edition by IMA Press in collaboration with Dablus in Moscow. 3) A year later a German text version in almost the same size as the portfolio was published in a 150 copy edition, printed in offset by the Arsis publishing house in St Petersburg. For a few copies inf this edition, a lithographed slipcase was produced.