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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
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 books
réf. mon0000162278WORD PUBLISHING. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. WORD PUBLISHING 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
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.
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
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
1944réf. 140949367New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited edition. Eleanor Roosevelt's copy #6 of 150 copies signed by each of the ten authors on the limitation page tipped in at front: Thomas Mann Rebecca West Sigrid Undset Andre Maurois and six others. xiii 1 488 pp. Custom bound in chestnut polished calf stamped in gilt on spine boards and turn-ins; Roosevelt's name stamped on front board. Not signed or inscribed by her though. All edges gilt maroon morocco title label to spine printed endpapers maroon ribbon marker. Very Good with light rubbing to extremities and heavy chipping to title label; front joint starting at upper end. Light scattered stains to fly-leaves; contents overall clean binding firm. Buergin 568. In the summer of 1942 the Austrian refugee and music publisher Armin L. Robinson invited ten prestigious writers to work on a new project: an anti-fascist propaganda film that would demonstrate that Nazi ideology violated each of the Ten Commandments. The deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer fell through so Robinson decided to continue the project as a collection of ten novellas. Each writer took one amendment with Thomas Mann leading the charge: 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thomas Mann. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Rebecca West. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Franz Werfel. 4. Remember to keep the sabbath day to keep it holy. John Erskine. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother. Bruno Frank. 6. Thou shalt not kill. Jules Romains. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Andre Maurois. 8. Thou shalt not steal. Sigrid Undset. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 10. Thou shalt not covet. Louis Bromfeld. The book was published in December 1943. Reviewers felt that the collection was uneven and overly long but still found much to praise particularly in Mann's contribution. They all felt the moral imperative of anti-Nazi writing: "Here the world's pen is raised against the sword of the super-race" wrote the New York Times. Four years into the war it had become clear that Hitler's conquest of Europe went well beyond territorial expansion and was an assault on civilization itself. It is no surprise that Eleanor Roosevelt should own a copy of this limited edition the text of which is taken from the third trade printing. Apart from being married to Hitler's chief opponent Eleanor was an activist whose positive newspaper review of Mann's 1938 book The Coming Victory of Democracy had aided its success with the American public. The Roosevelts received Thomas Mann and his wife at the White House in 1941 and Mann who admired the President's values and speechmaking gave a speech on behalf of his reelection campaign in 1944. This copy of The Ten Commandments bound for the First Lady's personal library is a tribute to the shared principles of those towering figures. Simon and Schuster unknown
1944réf. 140949367New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. Limited Edition. Very Good. Limited edition. Eleanor Roosevelt's copy #6 of 150 copies signed by each of the ten authors on the limitation page tipped in at front: Thomas Mann Rebecca West Sigrid Undset Andre Maurois and six others. xiii 1 488 pp. Custom bound in chestnut polished calf stamped in gilt on spine boards and turn-ins; Roosevelt's name stamped on front board. Not signed or inscribed by her though. All edges gilt maroon morocco title label to spine printed endpapers maroon ribbon marker. Very Good with light rubbing to extremities and heavy chipping to title label; front joint starting at upper end. Light scattered stains to fly-leaves; contents overall clean binding firm. Buergin 568. In the summer of 1942 the Austrian refugee and music publisher Armin L. Robinson invited ten prestigious writers to work on a new project: an anti-fascist propaganda film that would demonstrate that Nazi ideology violated each of the Ten Commandments. The deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer fell through so Robinson decided to continue the project as a collection of ten novellas. Each writer took one amendment with Thomas Mann leading the charge: 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thomas Mann. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Rebecca West. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Franz Werfel. 4. Remember to keep the sabbath day to keep it holy. John Erskine. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother. Bruno Frank. 6. Thou shalt not kill. Jules Romains. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Andre Maurois. 8. Thou shalt not steal. Sigrid Undset. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Hendrik Willem Van Loon. 10. Thou shalt not covet. Louis Bromfeld. The book was published in December 1943. Reviewers felt that the collection was uneven and overly long but still found much to praise particularly in Mann's contribution. They all felt the moral imperative of anti-Nazi writing: "Here the world's pen is raised against the sword of the super-race" wrote the New York Times. Four years into the war it had become clear that Hitler's conquest of Europe went well beyond territorial expansion and was an assault on civilization itself. It is no surprise that Eleanor Roosevelt should own a copy of this limited edition the text of which is taken from the third trade printing. Apart from being married to Hitler's chief opponent Eleanor was an activist whose positive newspaper review of Mann's 1938 book The Coming Victory of Democracy had aided its success with the American public. The Roosevelts received Thomas Mann and his wife at the White House in 1941 and Mann who admired the President's values and speechmaking gave a speech on behalf of his reelection campaign in 1944. This copy of The Ten Commandments bound for the First Lady's personal library is a tribute to the shared principles of those towering figures. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1901réf. 140948424Berlin: S. Fischer 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Two volumes. 566; 539 9 pp. with 8 advertising pages at rear of second volume. Text in German in Fraktur type. Bound in publisher's green or gray linen over beveled boards stamped in black and gilt top edge gilt patterned endpapers ribbon bookmarks. Near Fine with light rubbing to cover extremities light soiling and light toning and occasional thumbing to contents. Hinges on Volume I are a little tender binding exposed at p. 385 bookseller ticket to back free endpaper verso. Inner hinges exposed and tender on Volume II rubber ownership stamp to third page subtle repair to cloth at tail. A very pretty set in Jugendstil binding. Jacob 2. The first edition of Thomas Mann's family saga his most famous novel and the primary reason for his 1929 Nobel Prize win. The ownership stamp is that of Paula and Victor Asriel in Vienna. Paula Asriel who was predeceased by her husband killed herself to avoid deportation in the Holocaust though she managed to get her son out of the country on a Turkish passport. Thomas Mann targeted by the Nazis for his politics rather than his religion was deprived of his German citizenship in 1936 and never lived in his home country again. S. Fischer unknown
1925réf. 140949042New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Association copy signed by Thomas Mann on the fly-leaf and inscribed to John and Harriet Weaver "very grateful for their visit. Pacific Palisades 6. October 1942." 284 pp. plus 2 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in dark red black topstain patterned endpapers; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with sunned spine and light rubbing to extremities and topstain. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper light toning to contents. A beautiful signed copy of the Nobel laureate's novel about an older man's self-destructive obsession with an adolescent boy. The journalists John Downing Weaver and Harriet Sherwood Weaver moved to Los Angeles from Kansas City in 1940. John wrote articles fiction and history famously clearing the names of 167 Black soldiers falsely accused in 1906 of complicity in the death of a White man while Harriet crusaded for better management of the hills sounding the city. Thomas Mann settled in Los Angeles in 1941 and built his "Seven Palms" house in the Pacific Palisades the following year. Here he wrote his anti-Nazi broadcasts for the BBC and here he inscribed this book to two fellow members of the Los Angeles literary scene. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1901réf. 140948424Berlin: S. Fischer 1901. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Two volumes. 566; 539 9 pp. with 8 advertising pages at rear of second volume. Text in German in Fraktur type. Bound in publisher's green or gray linen over beveled boards stamped in black and gilt top edge gilt patterned endpapers ribbon bookmarks. Near Fine with light rubbing to cover extremities light soiling and light toning and occasional thumbing to contents. Hinges on Volume I are a little tender binding exposed at p. 385 bookseller ticket to back free endpaper verso. Inner hinges exposed and tender on Volume II rubber ownership stamp to third page subtle repair to cloth at tail. A very pretty set in Jugendstil binding. Jacob 2. The first edition of Thomas Mann's family saga his most famous novel and the primary reason for his 1929 Nobel Prize win. The ownership stamp is that of Paula and Victor Asriel in Vienna. Paula Asriel who was predeceased by her husband killed herself to avoid deportation in the Holocaust though she managed to get her son out of the country on a Turkish passport. Thomas Mann targeted by the Nazis for his politics rather than his religion was deprived of his German citizenship in 1936 and never lived in his home country again. S. Fischer unknown books
1925réf. 140949042New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition first printing. Association copy signed by Thomas Mann on the fly-leaf and inscribed to John and Harriet Weaver "very grateful for their visit. Pacific Palisades 6. October 1942." 284 pp. plus 2 advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in dark red black topstain patterned endpapers; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with sunned spine and light rubbing to extremities and topstain. Bookseller ticket to front free endpaper light toning to contents. A beautiful signed copy of the Nobel laureate's novel about an older man's self-destructive obsession with an adolescent boy. The journalists John Downing Weaver and Harriet Sherwood Weaver moved to Los Angeles from Kansas City in 1940. John wrote articles fiction and history famously clearing the names of 167 Black soldiers falsely accused in 1906 of complicity in the death of a White man while Harriet crusaded for better management of the hills sounding the city. Thomas Mann settled in Los Angeles in 1941 and built his "Seven Palms" house in the Pacific Palisades the following year. Here he wrote his anti-Nazi broadcasts for the BBC and here he inscribed this book to two fellow members of the Los Angeles literary scene. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1930réf. 140382New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition of this translation of Mann's classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Dedicated to Mr. Carl Lammle by Thomas Mann 15.VII.36." Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some expert restoration to the extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed this is the first example of this edition we have encountered. "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. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1912réf. 2495Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1912. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of arguably Thomas Mann's most celebrated work. "At the beginning of 1911 Mann's health was poor and his development sluggish. Nothing he had published since Buddenbrooks had been received with such universal acclaim. He had planned but abandoned several long works and had published chiefly short stories. Convinced that he needed to make a mark with a new piece that would appeal to current tastes he poured all his mastery into Death in Venice . The story was written between July 1911 and July 1912 . Mann had intended it for S. Fischer's magazine by that time merely called Die Neue Rundschau but was uncharacteristically hesitant about submitting it once it was done-it was too innovative and personal. His wife convinced him to send it in. It was first published in the October and November 1912 issues" S. Appelbaum. The publication in the October and November issues of Die Neue Rundschau preceded the rare limited edition printed by Hans von Weber. In: Die neue Rundschau October and November issues 1912; pp. 1368-1398; 1499-1526. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1912. Octavo original publisher's printed wrappers; custom box. Minor foxing to text block edges very light edgewear to wrappers. SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. S. Fischer Verlag unknown
1912réf. 2495Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1912. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST PRINTING IN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of arguably Thomas Mann's most celebrated work. "At the beginning of 1911 Mann's health was poor and his development sluggish. Nothing he had published since Buddenbrooks had been received with such universal acclaim. He had planned but abandoned several long works and had published chiefly short stories. Convinced that he needed to make a mark with a new piece that would appeal to current tastes he poured all his mastery into Death in Venice . The story was written between July 1911 and July 1912 . Mann had intended it for S. Fischer's magazine by that time merely called Die Neue Rundschau but was uncharacteristically hesitant about submitting it once it was done-it was too innovative and personal. His wife convinced him to send it in. It was first published in the October and November 1912 issues" S. Appelbaum. The publication in the October and November issues of Die Neue Rundschau preceded the rare limited edition printed by Hans von Weber. In: Die neue Rundschau October and November issues 1912; pp. 1368-1398; 1499-1526. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1912. Octavo original publisher's printed wrappers; custom box. Minor foxing to text block edges very light edgewear to wrappers. SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. S. Fischer Verlag unknown books
1936réf. 2776Wien: Fischer Verlag 1936. First edition. In original wrappers housed in a red chagrin spine folder and Boichot case. In fine condition. First edition. In original wrappers housed in a red chagrin spine folder and Boichot case. 42 p. Inscribed to Hans Reisiger. The text of Thomas Mann’a speech delivered on May 8 1936 in Vienna on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's 80th birthday. Inscribed to Hans Reisiger a close friend of Thomas Mann who served as the model for Rüdiger Schildknapp’s in Mann’s 1947 novel the Doctor Faustus. . Fischer Verlag unknown
1912réf. 55732Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912. Royal 8vo. Volumes 1 and 2 (i.e. the entire year) of ""Die neue Rundschau, 1912"" present, in the original half vellum bindings with gilt title to spines. A few pencil annotations on flyleaf. An exceedingly nice and clean set.
1912réf. 55732Berlin S. Fischer Verlag 1912. Royal 8vo. Volumes 1 and 2 i.e. the entire year of "Die neue Rundschau 1912" present in the original half vellum bindings with gilt title to spines. A few pencil annotations on flyleaf. An exceedingly nice and clean set. The true first printing of Thomas Mann's masterpiece "The Death in Venice". Contrary to what is generally believed the actual first appearance of "The Death in Venice" was not the extremely scarce de luxe-edition that appeared in 100 numbered copies in 1912. In fact the work originally appeared and in its entirety in the October and November issues i.e. in the second volume on pp. 1368-1398 1499-1526 of "Die Neue Rundschau" 1912.Simultaneusly with this first appearance Poeschel und Trepte in Leipzig were preparing the luxury edition of the work for Hans von Weber's Hyperionverlag in Munich as one of his "Hundertdrucke". Probably due to the controversial theme of the work Thomas Mann was hesitant to immediately handing over the manuscript to his regular publisher S. Fisher for him to publish it directly 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 "Neue Rundschau" over two months and with Weber's Hyperionverlag. While the first part of the work was being published in "Die neue Rundschau" 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 "Die neue Rundschau" in November 1912. Shortly after the famous luxury edition in 1913 Fischer published the first trade edition in book form. By 1924 50.000 copies of the work had appeared in this form. Thomas Mann's disturbing masterpiece probably the most famous story of obsession ever written is considered one of the most important literary productions of the 20th century. hardcover
2013réf. __9004268758Brill Academic Pub 2013. Hardcover. New. multilingual edition. German language. 12.75x9.75x23.00 inches. Brill Academic Pub hardcover
1912réf. 44435Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912. Royal 8vo. Volumes 1 and 2 (i.e. the entire year) of ""Die neue Rundschau, 1912"" present, in the original half vellum bindings with gilt title to spines, top edge gilt. In remarkably fine condition, with just a bit of soiling to spines and a small crack to upper hinges of volume 1 (""Der Tod in Venedig"" is in vol. 2). Small stamp in Hebrew to front boards and to title-pages. Large engraved book plates (""E. Schwabach-Märzdorff"") to inside of front boards and to front free end-papers. A very nice and clean set.
1912réf. 44435Berlin S. Fischer Verlag 1912. Royal 8vo. Volumes 1 and 2 i.e. the entire year of "Die neue Rundschau 1912" present in the original half vellum bindings with gilt title to spines top edge gilt. In remarkably fine condition with just a bit of soiling to spines and a small crack to upper hinges of volume 1 "Der Tod in Venedig" is in vol. 2. Small stamp in Hebrew to front boards and to title-pages. Large engraved book plates "E. Schwabach-Märzdorff" to inside of front boards and to front free end-papers. A very nice and clean set. The true first printing of Thomas Mann's masterpiece "The Death in Venice". Contrary to what is generally believed the actual first appearance of "The Death in Venice" was not the extremely scarce de luxe-edition that appeared in 100 numbered copies in 1912. In fact the work originally appeared and in its entirety in the October and November issues i.e. in the second volume on pp. 1368-1398 1499-1526 of "Die Neue Rundschau" 1912. Simultaneusly with this first appearance Poeschel und Trepte in Leipzig were preparing the luxury edition of the work for Hans von Weber's Hyperionverlag in Munich as one of his "Hundertdrucke". Probably due to the controversial theme of the work Thomas Mann was hesitant to immediately handing over the manuscript to his regular publisher S. Fisher for him to publish it directly 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 "Neue Rundschau" over two months and with Weber's Hyperionverlag. While the first part of the work was being published in "Die neue Rundschau" 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 "Die neue Rundschau" in November 1912. Shortly after the famous luxury edition in 1913 Fischer published the first trade edition in book form. By 1924 50.000 copies of the work had appeared in this form. Thomas Mann's disturbing masterpiece probably the most famous story of obsession ever written is considered one of the most important literary productions of the 20th century. hardcover
réf. 29495Paris Aux éditions du Sagittaire 1925. 1 vol. 160 x 124 mm de 212 p. Broché. . Édition originale de la traduction française donnée par Félix Bertaux Ch. Sigwalt. Elle comprend en frontispice un fac-similé d’une page du manuscrit. Un des 50 premiers exemplaires sur japon n° 26. . La fascination mortelle que peut exercer la beauté : tel est le sujet de La Mort à Venise ce chef-d'oeuvre d'inspiration très romantique où l'on retrouve l'essentiel de la pensée de Thomas Mann. Gustav Aschenbach romancier célèbre et taciturne voit sa vie bouleversée par la beauté divine et la grâce d'un adolescent. Sous le regard interrogateur du jeune Tadzio la descente aux abîmes de ce veuf respectable dans une Venise au charme maléfique rongée par le choléra est un des récits les plus troublants de Mann qui hésita à le livrer à Fisher son éditeur habituel. Il confia d'abord le texte pour une discrète édition de bibliophilie limitée à 100 exemplaires pour les éditions Hyperion de Hans von Weber à Munich qui fut préparée en novembre 1912 quelques semaines après la parution du texte intégral dans les numéros d'octobre et de novembre de Die Neue Rundschau. N'en déplaise à Nabokov - qui parle de la « niaise Mort à Venise » - ce texte est entouré d'une aura certaine que ses diverses transpositions n'ont fait qu'accroître : La Mort à Venise opéra en deux actes créé à Maltings par Benjamin Britten et la célébrissime Mort à Venise de Luchino Visconti pour ne parler que d'elles. Magnifique exemplaire en tirage sur japon avec ses grandes marges conservées. Paris, Aux éditions du Sagittaire, 1925. 1 vol. (160 x 124 mm) de 212 p. Broché. unknown
1925réf. 29495Un des 50 premiers exemplaires sur japon Paris, Aux éditions du Sagittaire, 1925. 1 vol. (160 x 124 mm) de 212 p. Broché. Édition originale de la traduction française, donnée par Félix Bertaux Ch. Sigwalt. Elle comprend en frontispice un fac-similé d’une page du manuscrit. Un des 50 premiers exemplaires sur japon (n° 26).
2001réf. 8266821st -- The Journal of Contemporary Photography 2001-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x1. The signed and numbered Deluxe Edition includes 10 exquisite hand-pulled photogravures 4 full-color planographs on fine tissue and 46 additional tritone and color plates. It is hand-bound in Moroccan goatskin and fine fabric and is encased in a matching portfolio case. Edition is limited to 165 copies in original corrugated box. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. 21st -- The Journal of Contemporary Photography hardcover
