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1940Best.-Nr. 294586New York: Modern Age Books 1940. Hardcover. xv 318p. foreword prologue epilogue toning to endpapers mild soiling and rubbing to covers else a very good first US edition in bright yellow cloth boards black topstain. The exiled brother and sister children of Thomas Mann write in defense of their Homeland the Other Germany that has not been taken in by the Nazis. Modern Age Books hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 54852Amsterdam: Querido Verlag N.V. 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 354pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; protected by modern mylar. Top edge in gray. Last novel of Heinrich Mann written between 1946 and October 1947 in his California exil. Bermann-Fischer / Querido Verlag N.V. release. It describes the last two days of Kobalt a destitute nobelwoman born Countess Traun of Klostergmund Austria who had worked with the French Communists in the past. Kobalt's assasination is planned while she is staying in Nice. She escapes several assasination attemps only to die in a hospital from lung complications. Just days before her death she had broken the bank while gambling in Monte Carlo. Text in German. Binding with minor wear along edges. Block slightly age toned. Querido Verlag N.V. hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 2354620Boston: Bruce Humphries Inc 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed without attribution signed and dated by author on front endpaper 'Happy Reading J. Adin Mann July 18 1949'. Very good in good jacket. Minor loss from jacket corners two faint ring stains to rear jacket panel. 294 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece mirrored on front jacket panel. A collection of anecdotes related to volunteer firefighting by a volunteer fireman from North Dakota. An interesting blend of biographical sketches social complexities and studies of battling the fires themselves. Bruce Humphries, Inc hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 17738New York: Ktav 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xxxvii 484pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. One of the most important works on the Cairo Genizah. Text is in English with selected Hebrew from manuscripts and fragments. Overall in fine condition. Ktav hardcover books
1981Best.-Nr. 293135Hamburg: Frühlings Erwachen 1981. Pamphlet. 16p. 6x8.25 inches text in German cover and entire text printed in red type on gray stock minor pen marks and split at spine fold pamphlet in stapled pictorial red and gray wraps. Textreihe 1. Reissues of the authors' writings in the early 1930s. Frühlings Erwachen unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 294587Wiesbaden: Edition Klaus Blahak 1985. Hardcover. Four volumes of a six volume set texts in German various pagination very good in green boards and gilt in unclipped white djs. Book numbers 1-3 & 5. Missing volumes 4 & 6. Bd.Bibliographie; Bd. 2. Kroll F. and Täubert K. 1906-1927 Unordnung und früher Ruhm; Bd. 3. 1927-1933 Vor der Sintflut; Bd. 5. 1937-1942 Trauma Amerika. Edition Klaus Blahak hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 695WA UP 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Published in connection with an exhibition. WA UP hardcover books
1901Best.-Nr. 1392Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. 1901. 1901. First edition. 8vo. 10 full-page illustrations by Troy and Margaret Kinney. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in white upper cover with a design of a coach and horses signed "K". Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901. hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 329148New York: Aperture 1988. hardcover. Mann Sally. Introduction by Ann Beattie. 37 black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann. 53 pages. Slim square 4to light grey cloth d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn/torn and dust-soiled. New York: Aperture/A New Image Book 1988. Second printing. A fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper. Aperture unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 197612Washington D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art 1977. First edition. Softcover. 12 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran from September 24 through November 13 1977. Features an essay by Jane Livingston. Includes with the covers 9 dramatic black and white images by Mann that differ vastly from her usual work. Also features biographical information as well. A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. The Corcoran Gallery of Art unknown books
1919Best.-Nr. 212354Berlin: S. Fischer 1919. Hardcover. Poor. Boards detached along with first three pages before title page. Text block is toned and has some crumbling around the edges. Boards aren't in terrible shape but since they're detached its kind of a wash. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. 5 preliminary leaves 13-190 pages 19 cm. German text. S. Fischer hardcover books
1934Best.-Nr. 81900NY: Knopf 1934. First US edition. 428 pp. Corners bumped bookplate inside front cover; in all very good plus in very good dust jacket with darkened spine and flap folds and chipping along top edge and base and crown. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 200967New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 608 pages. One of the better known works from the winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. A clean and tight near fine copy in black cloth boards with bright yellow topstain and in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the bottom of the spine and some other very minor wear. A nicer than usual copy. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 502645New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition variant dust jacket with pink interior. Translated from the German for the first time by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Octavo. 608pp. Light flaking to lettering at heel of spine else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny tears and creases at the edges. Thomas Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1948Best.-Nr. 29189Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1948. First edition. Hardcover. g. Gold-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating tetralogy by Thomas Mann. Joseph und seine Brüder Joseph and his brothers is the largest most comprehensive work by the author based on the biblical story of Jakoob's favorite son Joseph. Vol. 1: Die Geschichten Jaakobs & Der junge Joseph. 737 4pp. Vol. 2: Joseph in Ägypten. 684 2pp. Vol. 3: Joseph der Ernährer. 617 3pp. Text in German. Minor age wear and staining on binding. Spines sunned lettering on spines faded. Bindings in good interior in very good condition. Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Thomas Mann. Bermann-Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 29773London: Secker & Warburg. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. B000LY2EUY . Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. First British edition. Previous owner's brief inscription on front free endpaper else very good in a very good edge worn at the spine ends age darkened dust jacket. Publisher's postcard laid in . . Secker & Warburg hardcover books
1941Best.-Nr. 002637New York: Alfred A Knopf 1941. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 196pp. Sharp First Printing square tight and clean throughout. Some darkening and spotting to edges. Offsetting to endpapers likely from clippings. Attractive un-clipped pictorial wrapper $2.00 has some minor rubbing and a few small closed tears and chips to edges. Some darkening to spine. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A very attractive collectable copy. Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
1938Best.-Nr. 09625New York: Alfred A . Knopf 1938. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo 38 pages; with Knopf self-addressed review card laid in blanks not filled-in. Price of 75c on front flap of dust jacket with light fading at spine and fore-edge. Internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind. Alfred A . Knopf unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 22341Berlin: S. Fischer 1926. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 12mo. 126 1pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards in original decorative cardboard slipcase. Illustration on cover by Karl Walser. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece. Mann wrote Unordnung und frühes Lied Disorder and Early Sorrow in 1925. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks 1901 The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg 1914 and his numerous short stories. Text in German. Slight staining on small part of top edge on front and back board. Very minor age wear on slipcase. Slipcase in very good book in near fine condition. S. Fischer hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 89249London: Secker and Warburg n.d. Octavo 21cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; 472pp; frontispiece portrait. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Upper spine slightly convexed with light shelf-wear and -soil and off-setting to endpapers; Very Good. Collection of essays includes "Goethe's Career as a Man of Letters" "Lessing" "Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner" and "Voyage with Don Quixote". 89249. Secker and Warburg unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 272786New York: Merrell 2000. hardcover. fine/fine. Extensively illustrated. 192pp. 4to black cloth d.w. New York: Merrell in Association with The Jewish Museum 2000. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Chapters by various authors. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name. Merrell unknown books
2005Best.-Nr. 1787Billboard Books 2005. MANN William J. EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE LIFE OF JOHN SCHLESINGER. NY: Billboard Books 2005. Small quarto black cloth in dust jacket. First Edition first printing. Schlesigner is best-known for directing such well-known movies as "Midnight Cowboy" "Marathon Man" and "Day Of The Locusts." Signed presentation from Mann on the title page: "To Diane with warm regards William Mann." Signed copies are uncommon! Near fine; tiny tear d/j. $75.00. Billboard Books unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 161460N.p.: Abraxas Productions 1971. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the versos one with a label obscuring another provenance stamp. A Swedish woman who emigrated to New York reveals to her psychiatrist that she had been raped by her stepfather and is increasingly attracted to women. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing and two with wax pencil annotations on the recto. Abraxas Productions unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 168188Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. Frank Sinatra's last film with Warner Brothers. Based on the 1966 novel by Francis Clifford about an industrialist who is pulled into a Cold War espionage scheme. Shot on location in London and Copenhagen. 10 x 8 inches. Two Near Fine one Very Good plus. Warner Brothers unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 152721N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1961 film showing a close-up of actress Judy Garland. A dramatization of the 1947 Judges' Trial one of twelve US Nuremberg Military Tribunals held from 1946 to 1949 to decide the fate of individuals accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in Nazi atrocities. Garland was nominated for an Oscar for her performance out of twelve Academy Award nominations for the film in total winning three including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Maximilian Schell. Set in Nuremberg shot on location in Nuremberg and Berlin. 7.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Twilight Time 1631. N.p. unknown books
