Volume 3's stitching is just starting to show at rear pastedown.

Volume 2's boards are somewhat mottled/ discolored possibly from once having gotten damp, but there is no sign of damage or unusual scent.

Occasional spotting to endpapers and the usual age-toning. Three strong, tight, bright and clean volumes in green cloth with gilt spine titling, 1265 total pages, unmarked within except for previous owner's name and address label to ffep of Volume 2. The wrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling nd the spine is browned. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and light wear to the titling on the spine. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. For sale is volume 3, containing Into the Millenium (The Criminals) book1. This English translation was intended as four volumes. A third volume, which remained unfinished, was published posthumously.

It was originally planned as two volumes (19), containing four parts. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. The novel is a 'story of ideas', which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.

The man without qualities vol 2