1816ref. 22014Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Very good; paper spine abraded in places affecting the label; some toning but internally a clean copy; front board present but detached; verso of the title page with a library release - but no accessioning. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-'06; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1990ref. 46786One of 375 numbered copies signed by the artist John Hejduk. Illustrated with lithographs in color very geometrical in nature. Striking in its use of Monotype Gill Sans by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari of Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Limited Editions Club books
1970ref. 137404N.p.: N.p. 1970. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall" based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964 at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre ran for 208 performances and closed on May 29 1965. A television movie of the play was released in 1974 but Mann appears to have not been involved in the project. Abby Mann 1927-2008 wrote screenplays for "Judgment at Nuremberg" 1961 earning him an Academy Award "A Child Is Waiting" 1963 "Ship of Fools" 1965 "The Detective" 1968 "Report to the Commissioner" 1975 and "War and Love 1985. His work also extended into television for series like "Medical Story" 1975-1976 and "Kojak" 1973-1978 a show he helped create and several "Kojak" television movies. Black wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for playwright Miller and screenwriter Mann. 195 leaves with last page of text numbered 194. Typescript on white stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound in a black spring binder. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 151550N.p.: Alfa Cinematografica 1971. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Luchino Visconti and Silvana Mangano on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe "Parimage" stamp and "Camera Press" stamp on verso. Based on Thomas Mann's 1912 novella. Mann's lonely and obsessed novelist was transformed by Visconti into a composer based on Mahler who travels to Venice for his health and becomes increasingly obsessed with an adolescent Polish boy. The middle film of Visconit's "German Trilogy" an impressionistic conceptual cycle that begins with "The Damned" 1969 and ends with "Ludwig" 1972. Nominated for an Academy Award and for the Palm d'Or. Shot on location in Venice Italy. 12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and two small closed tears to left edge. Criterion Collection 962. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Alfa Cinematografica unknown books
1845ref. 333470Boston: Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1845. Inscribed on the front cover "G.F. Clark from Hon. Horace Mann. 124pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers small chip at upper outer margin on upper cover spine with wear and loss. Inscribed on the front cover "G.F. Clark from Hon. Horace Mann.". 124pp. 8vo. An important work by Mann responding to criticism over his educational reform particularly his common school system and the emphasis on non-sectarian education. Wm. B. Fowle and Nahum Capen unknown books
1926ref. D4335Gera: Verlag Friedrich Blau 1926. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps lettered in gilt on front cover; 8vo; pp. 20 printed in red and black. Covers a little rubbed and sunned lightly creased and chipped along the edges; text block a slightly wrinkled. Verlag Friedrich Blau paperback books
1934ref. 470378New York: Equinox Cooperative Press 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Lithographs by Lynd Ward. Octavo. 64pp. Decorated boards with spine label in publisher's slipcase with label on the front. Touch of sunning at the spine else near fine in slipcase with a nick at one corner and a hint of sunning. Copy number 533 of 1000 copies numbered and Signed by Thomas Mann. Equinox Cooperative Press hardcover books
1936ref. 1410452New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First American Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo ix 2 567 pages. In Very Good minus condition with two dust jackets; a first printing jacket in Very Good minus condition and a later printing jacket in Good condition. First printing jacket is red with black and navy lettering wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve. Later printing jacket is white and red with black and red lettering. Volume is in full oatmeal cloth binding with burgundy lettering. First printing jacket shows mild wear to covers with some rubbing along edges and joints. Lightly age toned with sunning to spine. Very shallow chipping to jacket at head of spine; wrinkling at tail with a small closed tear at the bottom of the rear joint. Later printing jacket shows heavier scuffing and wear with closed tears and small areas of chipping along the top and fore edges. Moderate soiling to jacket spine and back cover. Price unclipped: "$3.00". Boards show light wear with some fraying to head and sunning to spine. Text block shows moderate wear toning and soiling along edges with foxing to fore edge. Lightly age toned throughout. Soiling along hinges. Splitting to front hinge. Bookplate of former Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution Silvio A. Bedini on front pastedown with his ownership inscription in the top corner of the front flyleaf. Signed flat by Thomas Mann in black ink on front flyleaf: "Thomas Mann". Shelved in Case 7. 1410452. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1990ref. 324018New York: The Limited Editions Club 1990. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies signed by Hejduk. 183 pp. Illustrated with lithographs by John Hejduk. 1 vols. 4to. Original full brown calf upper cover lettered in black. Fine copy in cloth slipcase with prospectus. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies signed by Hejduk. 183 pp. Illustrated with lithographs by John Hejduk. 1 vols. 4to. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
ref. 24308On Mann's letterhead written to the New York Post columnist thanking him for "the flattering invitation" presumably to write a column for him as a guest. Mann is "-- in principle -- interested in your proposition but I cannot at this moment give you a definitive answer. A week or so from now I shall know whether or not a piece of work which I have undertaken to complete before the middle of February will be ready in time for me to accept any additional obligations. You shall have my final reply as soon as possible. Meanwhile I should be glad to be advised as to the fee involved in my proposed guest-performance. unknown books
ref. 24309To the editor of "Story" magazine where Mann had been frequently published since its inception and numous anthologies. "I was very interested to learn about your plan of a television series based upon the work and the authors in "The World's Best" and I am quite willing to cooperate in this series. As for the story most suitable for this purpose I am looking forward to your suggestions. unknown books
1935ref. 16476New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1935. First American Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine. Signed first American edition first printing of Young Joseph by Thomas Mann in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. Octavo 311pp. Black cloth title stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine. Yellow topstain publisher's patterned endpapers. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block faint dust remnants to top edge a near fine copy. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.50 on front flap sunning to spine bright illustrations on covers. Signed by the author Thomas Mann on the front flyleaf. Thomas Mann 1875-1955 was a German novelist and essayist known for his exploration of intellectual and moral dilemmas which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. This book is part of a four-part novel series retelling the biblical story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. Originally published between 1933 and 1943 the series includes: The Stories of Jacob Young Joseph Joseph in Egypt and Joseph the Provider. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
2022ref. 48157Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Very Good . Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Publisher's Numbered Edition limited to 250 copies signed by Lansdale Kreutz and Mann and colophon this being #223. Octavo; bound in quarter goatskin with Japanese cloth sides; decorative endpapers; 165pp. Frontis; Color plates including fold-out illustration featuring the Artist Edition dust jacket. Errata and two publisher's bookmarks laid in. Housed in a four-flap enclosure covered in Japanese cloth and lined with red velour. Boards show very light shelfwear and a couple faint smudges; binding sound; pages unmarked. Enclosure stained along side panel; a few stray additional spots; overall a Very Good or better copy. Suntup Editions unknown books
1940ref. 470375New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. Small octavo. 68pp. Light spot on rear board else fine in very good dust jacket with small tear at the front flap fold spot on the rear panel and sunned along the spine and the edges. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Rarely found in jacket or signed. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1990ref. 18112301New York: The Limited Editions Club printed by Heritage Printers Inc. 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk John. No. 122 of 375 copies quarto size 193 pp. signed by John Hejduk with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann 1875-1955 a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954 and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk 1929-2000 who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro b. 1947 a prolific poet and literary critic whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose he writes "A master of X-ray Mann leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love." ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather title in black on the front board black endpapers lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper quarto size 12" by 9.25" pagination: i-vi 1-183 184-186 1 colophon one of 375 copies this number 122 signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter a thirteen-page softcover booklet with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; spine is very slightly sunned else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine clean overall with a few stray marks the text block is sturdy without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine strong and sturdy clean with some minor fraying to the cloth otherwise free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.) unknown books
1963ref. 151019N.p.: N.p. 1963. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film two borderless photographs of Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann and one photograph of Jacques Demy and Moreau on the set of the film. One with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. A young bank employee Jean encouraged by his friend to try gambling decides to vacation in Nice where he meets and begins an affair with the beautiful Jackie a gambling addict whose addiction masks an emptiness and despair. Set in and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and Monte Carlo Monaco. 2 8.75 x 7 inches 1 8 x 10 inches. One with faint creasing else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown books
1939ref. 55360Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1939. First printing. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. First edition of this important account of the emigration of "those creative artists and thinkers for whom existence under the swastika became intolerable" cover. Erika Mann daughter of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann was long persistent in her criticism of the Nazi regime. Her best-selling SCHOOL FOR BARBARIANS - published just the year before ESCAPE - was along with this title written with her brother one of the most impactful pieces of pre-war opposition. Mann - who at various points worked as a travel writer war reporter radio broadcaster cabaret owner actress and literary executor for her father - was forced to flee Germany in 1933 herself and later gained British citizenship by way of a marriage of convenience with poet W.H. Auden. While BARBARIANS focused on German fascist propaganda and education ESCAPE details those writers scholars scientists intellectuals and artists who fled Germany beginning in 1933 to escape the censorship and oppression of the Nazi regime. Increasingly uncommon in the first edition especially so in jacket. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original full red cloth stamped in blue and gold. In original price-clipped pictorial jacket. 384 pages. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn with some creasing and like soil. Book has touches of shelfwear at extremities. Else clean and sound. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1853ref. 316013Yellow Springs OH 1853. 2 pp. 12mo. Single leaf of stationery shallow chip at blank left margin with no loss of text. 2 pp. 12mo. The "father of American public school" writes to accept the invitation of the State Teacher's Association of Ohio to deliver their annual address and to express his admiration. In part: "I sincerely hope the time has now come when I can establish cordial relations with a Society which I have long regarded with so much honor & respect. I shall gladly avail myself of this ocassion to show the deep interest which I feel in the noble efforts of the Ohio Teachers of Common Schools." The letter dates from two months after Mann assumed the presidency of the newly established Antioch College at Yellow Springs. unknown books
1816ref. 65448Dedham MA: Printed by H. Mann and Co 1816. First edition. 8vo. 317 1 pp. Sabin 44328: "Contains information relative to the war not found elsewhere." HOWES M-258. AUSTIN 1190. American Imprints 38138. Bookplate of prominent Rhode Island physician Irving Addison Beck on front pastedown some light browning to the text but very good. Contemporary calf rubbed and somewhat eroded rebacked with gilt rules and leather label on the spine. 11197. Printed by H. Mann and Co unknown books
1938ref. 009711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good in soiled and stained but intact slipcase. Two volumes in slipcase. The third installment in the Joseph tetralogy. INSCRIBED to Paul Elkin and SIGNED by the author on the title page of the first volume. Mann first wrote an "A" to begin Elkin's last name and then wrote over it. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1950ref. 022175Pacific Palisades 24 March 1950. Letter. Near Fine. Single-spaced typed letter on 8-1/2" x 11" personal stationery to Philip Blair Rice editor of THE KENYON REVIEW thanking him for sending an issue of the periodical "with the article by R. P. Blackmur about my novel 'Doctor Faustus'. But it is my desire to tell you that the repeated perusal of the study has given me great satisfaction and that quite apart from its topic I admire Mr. Blackmur's work as a highly distinguished critical achievement." Mann mentions Blair's own essay on Mann's book also published in THE KENYON REVIEW: "'The Merging Parallels' a study I have not forgotten. Together with this new comment it is included in my collection of personal and public reactions to this work of my old age which is particularly close to my heart." unknown books
1924ref. 140942634New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. First Edition. First American edition first printing. vi 389 ;iv 359 pp. Complete in two volumes bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red lacking slipcase. Near Fine with former owner name written on first blank bookseller tickets on paste downs copyright page on Vol. 2 uncut. In original pictorial dust jackets toned and lightly worn with a little staining to front flaps Vol. 1 Good with chipping at head and tail archival tissue mend to verso along split in front joint Vol. 2 Very Good. The German author's first and most acclaimed novel rare in jackets. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1963ref. 163783N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film showing actors Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. Stamp of photographer Agnès Varda film director and wife of Jacques Demy on the verso. Varda and director Jacques Demy were married from 1962 until Demy's death in 1990. While vacationing in Nice a quiet young bank employee begins an affair with a gambler whose addiction and despair mirrors his own. Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and in and Monte Carlo Monaco. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown books
1829ref. 39841London: Printed for The Company of Stationers 1829. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Size: 2 3/8 x 1 3/8". Unpaginated. 26pp. Original gold- red- and green-stamped pocket style full morocco binding housed in a matching morocco slipcase. All edges gilt. Striking four-page engraved frontispiece by Henry Adlard depicting the King's Palace and St. James' Park after a drawing by Thomas Mann Baynes. Spectacular miniature Almanac from the year 1830 providing all sorts of useful information such as: common notes for 1830; a 12-month calendar; a table of Kings and Queens' reigns; a table of Lord Mayors and Sheriffs from the year 1809 to the year 1830; a list of holidays; a table of the current coins; and a list of eclipses for 1830. Almanacs were very popular and often given as presents in varying forms to suit every pocket. Our copy contains a gift inscription on free front endpaper for Maria Sotheby "a gift from her dear mamma 4th June 1841." Frontispiece starting but still attached. Tail of spine slightly chipped. Slipcase in overall very good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Printed for The Company of Stationers hardcover books
1941ref. 274392New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Offsetting to blank preliminaries from clippings else near fine in a price-clipped near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
