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2005réf. 126395South Dennis Massachusetts: 21st Editions 2005. First and only edition. One of 100 numbered and 10 lettered copies signed by Mann on the colophon each of the 10 bound prints initialled and the free-standing print signed. This is a stunning and provocative collection of photographs each accompanied by a poem by controversial photographer Sally Mann who was named "America's Best Photographer" by Time magazine in 2001. 21st Editions received the 3rd Annual Lucie Award for Photographic Book Publisher of the Year for this publication. Folio. Illustrated throughout with 10 full-page black-and-white platinum prints each initialled by Mann lower right. Together with one free-standing platinum print signed by Mann lower right. Image sizes: 25.2 x 18.7 cm. Sheet sizes: 35.3 x 30.2 cm. Original buff paper covered boards front cover lettered in silver fore and bottom edges untrimmed printed on handmade cotton rag paper patterned endpapers. With the original buff raw silk clamshell box. All in excellent condition hardcover
1913réf. 98970Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1913. First trade edition of one of the greatest novellas of the twentieth century. Octavo original publisher's quarter vellum over marbled boards. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "An Ernst Bertram in herzlicher Wertschatzung Thomas Mann" To Ernst Bertram in heartfelt appreciation Thomas Mann. One of the best possible association copies as Bertram was Mann's closest friend from the late 1900s through the 1930s when their politics separated them. Bertram was deeply influential on Mann's thinking and literary direction during the time when he was somewhat artistically lost and suffered his own writer's block. It was also in nearly daily conversation with Bertram that the long political confessional Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen Reflections of an Unpolitical Man was born. Bertram was a constant visitor at the Mann's and it is evident that there was some quotient of homoerotic attraction to the relationship. It is well-known that Mann's early adulthood prior to his marriage to Katia in 1905 were spent in more or less explicitly gay attractions and relations but recent scholarship has begun to trace the residues of Mann's homosexuality in his later life and work and the relationship with Bertram who was openly homosexual somehow epitomizes the special significance that the company of men still bore. In addition to being Mann's closest confidant Bertram was an important man of letters in his own right. He was a poet professor at the University of Colon and author of many books including Nietzsche - An Attempt of a Mythology. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Inscribed first editions of Mann's major works are rare; an association copy to this fellow Nietzschean scholar and close confidant makes this a magnificent piece of history. "Thomas Mann is one of the greatest and most widely read authors of the 20th century… An innovative stylist and synthesizer of the intellectual trends of his time Mann exerted much influence on modern fiction not only in Germany but in Europe and in both Americas as well. His perceptiveness as an interpreter of Western cultural heritage and his skill as a cosmopolitan teacher of democratic and humanistic values earned him recognition as a 'mirror of his age' and a 'citizen of the world'… Among Mann's many well-written works of short fiction "Death in Venice" 1928 a novella based on Mann's impressions during his stay in Venice is the most famous… Typically for Mann the novella deals with the problem of the unhappy sick artist Gustav von Aschenbach who envies the healthy and 'normal' people of the bourgeois society" Pribic 262-3. S. Fischer, Verlag hardcover
1912réf. 63412München Hyperion Verlag Hans von Weber 1912. Large 4to. Binding: 283 x 205 cm. Bound uncut with top edge gilt in a truly magnificent innovative mechanical binding made of light grey polycarbonate by Edgard Claes. Internally very nice and clean with only a few occasional very minor light brown spots. Printed on thick heavy paper Büttenpapier with watermarks. 1 97 1 pp. The splendid binding made of polycarbonate with mechanical boards is housed in a wonderful illustrated polycarbonate chemise with a blue morocco spine again housed in a highly decorative polycarbonate slip-case with removeable spine. The boards with exposed hinges are with numerous cut-out shapes revealing 12 cogwheels to each board of varying sizes inside. The boards consist of three layers with the cogwheels in the middle; they are all striped in shades of orange pastel blue yellow and purple white and grey. Five tips of the largest cogwheel on both boards protrude at the middle of the boards so that the cogwheels can be turned creating a mechanical mirage throughout the boards. The spine has the title and publishing year in black letters on white and grey vertical stripes. The block is bound with fishing line which is visible on the upper and lower part of the spine. Dark blue velvet end-papers. Both covers of the chemise with black/grey white illustration being a stylized vue of a Venice canal. Onside covered in blue velvet. The highly decorative polycarbonate slipcase is in light grey with patterns in the same pastel colours as the binding. The slipcase has a sliding "spine" with title in the same colour. Inside of slipcase also covered in blue velvet. The book was bound in May 2026 and signed in hand pencil by Edgard Claes on a blank leaf after the colophon. This leaf also carries a stamp of the monastery with Claes' name. Very scarce first edition of Thomas Mann's disturbing masterpiece Der Tod in Venedig in a rare one-of-a-kind bookbinding by the renowned international prize-winning bookbinder Brother Edgard Claes. Probably the most famous story of obsession ever written "The Death in Venice" is considered one of the most important literary productions of the 20th century. This first edition of the book was printed in merely 100 copies which are all numbered; this being copy nr. 32/100. Probably due to the controversial theme of the work Thomas Mann was hesitant about immediately handing over the manuscript to his regular publisher S. Fisher and had settled on the bibliophile edition already before finishing the work. He did give Fischer the work to publish though and thus it came to appear both in Fischer's magazine "Neue Rundschau" in two volumes and with Weber's Hyperionverlag. While the first part of the work was being published the luxury edition was being prepared and in the end the luxury edition was only issued shortly after the second and final part had appeared in November 1912. The first trade edition appeared in 1913.A symbol-laden story of aestheticism and decadence: "Symbols of eros and death weave a subtle pattern in the sensuous opulence of this tale" Pascal 2026. As in other of Mann's works from the start of the 20th century he here explores the role of the artist in society. It also exemplifies the author’s regard for Sigmund Freud’s writings on the unconscious. This work closes an epoch of Mann's work. see Britannica 2025 Katia Mann Mann's wife wrote in her memoir from 1974 that he had not intended to write this novel which he ended up working on for a whole year. He wanted to write a novel about Goethe but did not believe he was up to such a task yet. Thus he transposed the Goethe novel into Death in Venice Mann 1975: 60. The physical apperance of the character Aschenbach was inspired by Gustav Mahler's situation before he died: While in Venice in 1911 Mann was following the bulletins reporting Mahler's condition. The Manns knew and had met Mahler personally: "My husband told me that Gustav Mahler was the first person he'd ever met who gave him the impression of being a great man" Mann 1975: 65. Mann also attributed to Aschenback the works he himself never completed. Overall the story was inspired from several real-life experiences icluding their travels to Brioni the cholera epidemic in 1911 and the fascination with a charming Polish boy as described in detail in Katia Mann's memoirs see Mann 1975: pp. 60-67. "The whole thing had an interesting epilogue. Death in Venice was a great success especially in America and the novella is certainly one of my husband's best. A few years ago Erika received a letter from an elderly Polish aristocrat a count who wrote that something funny had happened. Some time ago friends had brought him the Polish translation of a novella in which he an his whole family were described to a T; he found this very amusing and intriguing. But he was not offended. Such was the end of the 'real' story." Katia Mann 1975: 63-64 The binding: Brother Edgard Claes monk in the Crosier Order was born in Belgium and now lives and works in the Monastery of Saint Agatha the oldest inhabited monastery in the Netherlands with only two other Crosier monks left. He is one of the most prominent bookbinders in the world and his bindings are already ones of legend. He was educated as a classical hand bookbinder but soon started looking for alternative and innovative forms and materials for his bindings. He studied at Instituut voor Kunst en Ambacht IKA in Mechelen and later under the Belgian master bookbinder August Kulche 1927-2003. Edgard Claes is also an accomplished painter sculptor stained glass maker. Since 1990 he has been making his bookbindings mainly from polycarbonate which he processes with a computer-controlled milling machine and colors with airbrush using car paint and a clear varnish to finish off. These bindings especially the "mechanical" ones with moveable parts are among the most interesting and sought-after modern bookbindings. They are totally unique and unlike anything one will have seen anywhere else often reflecting on the contents of the book that they hold. They are furthermore few and very scarce. In 2025 there was a 3-year waiting period for new orders. Sources and further reading: For more on Edgard Claes the magnificently innovative bookbinder please see: https://edgardclaes.com/portfolio/bindereport/ Britannica Editors 2025 March 10. Death in Venice. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Death-in-Venice-novella-by-Mann Hul Jan van 't. 2026 June 2. Boekbinder Edgard Claes: We sterven uit; de toekomst van de krusheren is dus nul. Reformatorisch Dagblad. https://www.rd.nl/artikel/1151249-boekbinder-edgar-claes-we-sterven-uit-de-toekomst-van-de-kruisheren-is-dus-nul Mann Katia 1975. Unwritten Memories. New York: Knopf. Pascal R. 2026 August 8. Thomas Mann. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mann hardcover
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1846réf. 3983351846. Unbound. Near Fine. A remarkable group of 10 portraits of Horace Mann and his family featuring a unique and previously undiscovered cased sixth plate daguerreotype of Mann the great architect of the American system of popular education. The photos were preserved by the Mann family and all are housed in a circa 1950s cardboard box with the typed ownership label of Horace Mann III Mann’s grandson of Southwest Harbor Maine. The box has some internal repair and chipping. The photos are overall very good with general wear and light spotting to two; the daguerreotype has a few scratches at neck level and a couple of mild abrasions but else near fine. unknown
