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1836Best.-Nr. 007789London: Ackermann and Co. Printed by Hillmandel 1836. Half Calf. Very Good. Truly scarce set of hand-colored plates with not a single copy reflected on OCLC First Search nor in bibliographic bibles for color plate and sporting books Tooley and Schwerdt respectively. Oblong 28.5 by 38cm. Six hand-colored lithographic plates Original wraps bound in. Ackermann and Co. Printed by Hillmandel unknown
Best.-Nr. 397987Unbound. Near Fine. A single octavo leaf approximately 6" x 7.75" written on both sides from the Diary of George Combe Mann. One margin a little irregularly cut affecting a few letters but not affecting the readability of the leaf old folds near fine. Both Horace Jr. and George were the sons of Horace Mann died 1859 the Father of American Education and Mary Peabody Mann one of the illustrious Peabody Sisters a reformer teacher and founder of a successful school for young children her sister Elizabeth Putnam Peabody was a reformer and pioneer in the creation of kindergartens and her other sister Sophia Peabody was a painter and the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Horace and Mary Mann had three sons: Horace Mann Jr. George Combe Mann and Benjamin Pickman Mann. The eldest Horace Mann Jr. was an accomplished botanist who studied and traveled with Henry David Thoreau. Mann also studied zoology with Louis Agassiz and was responsible for discovering over 100 plants species in Hawaii. Mann was named to head the botanical gardens at Harvard but died of tuberculosis at age twenty-four before he could fill the position. His personal herbarium of approximately 12500 sheets was purchased in 1869 by Andrew Dickson White as the first accession into the Cornell University Herbarium. The diary leaf in the 22-year-old George Mann's hand covers two sides of one leaf begins on November 11 1868 the day of his brother's death and continues on the other side with entries through November 18th the entry for the 18th may be incomplete. Mann's entry for November 11th in a clear and readable hand is exceedingly poignant: "At a few minutes before 2 p.m. Horace coughed a little harder than usual and mother spoke to him. He answered 'I was trying to stop a hiccough' adding immediately 'in the eastern provinces they say that is death.' She went out a minute and returned to find him with his eyes fixed gasping for breath. She called me who tried to raise him a little but he gasped five or six times at intervals of a few seconds and ceased to breathe. He had been comfortable all day. After his drain was driven out this morning he said he almost wished he had it to drive out again it felt so deliciously. He wanted mother to be with him all the time kept repeating how comfortable he was and wanted to continue just as he was. He enjoyed the day it seemed as much as any one in his life so perfectly calm and tranquil was he. But it was the calm which he now enjoys in full. His temperament made living hard even in health - an invalid intolerable. But he lived better than we realized and in his death I find an untold loss!" On the 13th he notes: "We had service here at 4 o'clock. Dr. Peabody officiated and Mrs. Gould and Dr. & Mrs. Vaughan sang. Brigham staid here last night." On the 14th: "We went to Providence at 11 o'clock - mother Aunt Lizzie Mary Peabody Dr. Gould Ben and I - where we found Aunt Lydia the Messers and Arthur Knapp. It was a beautiful day and the short service at the grave was very satisfactory. We dined at Aunt Lydia's and returned at 4 getting home at 7 p.m. Everything was calm and quiet. It is all over!" On the 16th: "Mother's 62nd birthday. Went in to Mr. Brigham's office again." On the 17th: "Attended to Horace's accounts in the evening." The entry on the 18th is truncated: "Snow in the night and rain all day - Read 150pp. of Greenleaf on Evidence." Unique primary source material on the death of a promising young botanist. From the estate of Horace Mann III died 1978 the son of George Combe Mann. unknown
1905Best.-Nr. 129391New York: Town Topics Publishing Company 1905. First edition of this lavishly published work regarding New York's wealthy society at the time including names such as John Jacob Astor J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Huntington. Folio original full green morocco elaborate tooling to the spine front and back panels green silk doublures and endleaves all edges gilt. Illustrated hundreds of photogravures all edges gilt. Signed by William Mann the publisher of Town Topics. Includes sketches of Astor Pell Yerkes Stanford White Flagler Schwab Depew C.P. Huntington H.E. Huntington Chanler Cleveland Roosevelt J.P. Morgan Foxhall Keene and many others. In fine condition. Housed in rare original felt-lined wooden box with latches. An exceptional production. William d'Alton Mann was a businessman and newspaper and magazine publisher during the civil war. He developed the Mann Boudoir Car a railroad sleeping car and published the Mobile Register The Smart Set and Town Topics. Mann came to be known for his dubious practices. For example he created the "blind item" a gossipy news story in which the details of a private happening are reported while the identities of the people involved are not revealed. Mann used this as blackmail to publicly threaten an individual into doing his will lest Mann chooses to expose him. Town Topics Publishing Company unknown
Best.-Nr. 60060Berlin Alf Häger 1924. Gr.8° Orig. -Radierung 64 S 1 Bl. Geglättetes blaues Saffianleder Deckel- Rücken- und Innenkantenvergoldung Rundumgoldschnitt Spiegel und fliegende Vorsätze m. goldgemasertem Buntpapier bezogen. Tadelloses Exemplar Erstausgabe Potempa G 186.1 Haack S. 104. Einmalige Auflage in 300 Exemplaren die ersten 90 mit einer Porträtradierung Thomas Manns von Karl Dannemann. Davon kamen 75 in den Handel. Einband und Vergoldung aus der Werkstatt Holzey & Sohn Leipzig. Die ganzseitige Porträt-Radierung von Karl Dannemann und Thomas Mann signiert unter dem Impressum auf der letzten Seite von Thomas Mann ebenfalls signiert. Exemplar LVIII von 90 römisch nummerierten Exemplaren. Gedruckt in Grasset-Antiqua auf Zanders-Hadern. 010 Berlin, Alf Häger, [1924] unknown
1825Best.-Nr. B4754London: Hurst and Robinson Pall Mall and J. Dickinson c.1825. A fine example. Plates and text are clean and crisp. . Binding: Quarter recent calf with contemporary marbled paper boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt ornaments. Title on two. Notes: Plate book showing views of several planned improvements of River Thames suggested by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Trench. Thomas Baynes 1794-1876 was a London born English artist known for his drawings and watercolours of landscapes buildings and outdoor events. Many of his subjects were engraved and published generally in London and these include a notable panorama of the River Thames which was drawn from nature and engraved on stone. He was the son of James Baynes a noted watercolour artist. Size: Oblong folio 280x685mm. Pages: P. Title Page Blank Prospectus 1-2 1-10. Illustrated with ten finely water coloured large lithographic views of London over Thames. Category: Book Europe United Kingdom; Hurst and Robinson, Pall Mall and J. Dickinson hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. 5676Berlin Vienna & Stockholm: S. Fischer Verlag / Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1943. First Editions. Well-preserved set of the Nobel Prize-winner's great tetralogy telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's dealings with his brothers his rise as a statesman in Egypt his conduct during the epic famine and his restoration to his father Jacob. First Impressions. Four octavo volumes 19-19.5cm; beige and brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and gilt on spines and front covers; brown topstains; dustjackets; lxiv4026; 910-3377; 910-7524; 89-6444pp. Inscribed by the author in the first volume in Leipzig dated 5.I.37. A few faint scuffs to topstains; gentle sunning to board edges on Vol.2; scattered foxing to covers on Vol.3 though clean internally; some faint foxing to covers and text edges on Vol.4; Very Good to Near Fine. Dustjackets on Vols.1-3 are gently spine-sunned lightly edgeworn with several tiny nicks tears and attendant creases and some shallow losses to crown on Vol.3; Very Good. Dustjacket on Vol.4 is gently spine-sunned with a few tiny tears and a faint stain to rear panel; Near Fine. S. Fischer Verlag / Bermann-Fischer Verlag unknown
1604Best.-Nr. 1818816/04/1936. An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work 1936 was a momentous year for Mann. That year his escalated attacks on the Nazi government led to his German citizenship being revoked. He traveled to Argentina his maternal homeland for a PEN International Conference which was organized to bring peace and understanding between cultures using literature. In 1900 at the age of 25 Thomas Mann wrote and in 1901 published Buddenbrooks chronicling the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations. Mann drew deeply from the history of his own family the Mann family of Lübeck and their times. It was Mann's first novel and it made him a major literary figure. The work led to a Nobel Prize in Literature for Mann in 1929; although the Nobel award generally recognizes an author's body of work the Swedish Academy's citation for Mann identified ""his great novel Buddenbrooks"" as the principal reason for his prize. Mann began writing the book in October 1897 when he was twenty-two years old. The novel was completed three years later in July 1900 and published in October 1901. Henry Hart was an American publisher who worked mainly for Scribner's in New York. He was working with Mann on the publication of English-language versions of his works including Nocturns. Typed letter signed in German to Hart April 16 1936. ""I am hurrying to acknowledge receipt of your check from August 25th and am happy that sales of the “Nocturnes” are gradually progressing. ""You have added some very personal notes to your letter hat I would like to address with a few words. The trip to Moscow I will definitely make but will have to postpone it for now since I have travel plans to Vienna and Budapest in the immediate future. For the summer I have agreed to travel to Bueno Aires for the PEN Club Congress. I had committed to this trip a while ago and therefore have to travel there first. This trip is especially enticing to me since it will take me to Rio de Janeiro. It is the home of my mother who often told me about the beauty of the coast when I was a child. ""I was very touched about what you told me regarding your repeated studies of the novel of my youth. I finished it when I was 25 years old. The young man who wrote that book in his solitude could not have dreamed that it would be his calling in life to influence the intellectual life of people in a foreign continent in a educating and encouraging way. From the bottom of my heart I wish you have happy and beautiful ideas for your work and am repeating my request to please send me a copy your book once it is printed."" unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 29468AB1924. Two Volumes complete set. New York Knopf 1924. Octavo. 389 359 pages. Original Hardcover with the very rare original dustjackets in breathtaking condition now in protective collector's Mylar. Unusually Fine condition with the meaningful letter by Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann. The letter accompanying this amazing set of "Buddenbrooks" is of significance because it is reflecting Thomas Mann's willingness to already engage with serious admirers during his first year of Exile in the US. While exiled in Switzerland Mann must have been still able to feel a connection to his "Heimat"; by language and geography. Now in America one can only imagine the consolation of him knowing that his whole family had not only successfully sheltered from Nazi Germany but found a new home in which they were welcomed and were able to continue their very own pursuit of happiness through Literature continue their ability to work and find meaning in this new world. Especially Thomas Mann's earnest remark towards Brown Taylor mentioning of his daughter Erika Mann lecturing at Colby College must have given him a sense of peace and calm only a father can understand who has uprooted his family into the abyss of the unknown. Mann knew very well of fellow exiles and their struggles. Letters like these are not merely an autograph they are reflecion of states of mind and of great importance for our understanding the psychology of endurance. Holger Smyth Ireland April 2021 Almira Brown Taylor later Almira T. Campbell was born on 26 May 1920 in Hyde Park Massachusetts the daughter of Arthur Balcom and Mildred Victoria Fuller Taylor. She obtained her Associate of Arts degree from Colby Junior College in 1940 her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1942 and a Bachelor of Science in Library Science from Simmons College in 1943. She worked at the Yale Law School Mt. Holyoke College Mt. Hermon School Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School and the F. L. Boyden Library at Deerfield Academy. Taylor married Vincent Alexander Douglas Argyle Campbell in 1953. The couple had one daughter Faith. Taylor died on 12 October 2016. Source: Almira T. Campbell obituary on Legacydotcom The majority of Almira Brown Taylor's collection of autographs is now in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library Durham North Carolina. hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 68098New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First edition in English preceding the British edition by three years of Mann's classic novel. Octavo original cloth patterned endpapers. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the crown of the spine. First editions are rare especially in the original dust jacket. "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 books
Best.-Nr. 86174München Phantasus-Drucke 1920. Gr.8° 58 S. m. 11 Orig.-Holzschnitten a. Taf. u. 4 Initialen in Holzschnitt in Rot und Schwarz OPgt. m. Rückentitel u. Deckelvignette in Goldprägung Kopfgoldschnitt Deckel min. verzogen sonst tadelloses sehr frisches Ex. EA dieser Ausgabe. = 2. Phantasusdruck. Ex. Nr. 12 der Ex. Nr. 1 - 50 «in Antik-Kalbspergament» auf handgeschöpftem Büttenpapier bei einer Gesamtauflage von 220 Ex. Vom Dichter und vom Künstler im Impressum signiert. Die Holzschnitte und Initialen von Otto Nückel-Aibling. 010 München, Phantasus-Drucke, 1920 unknown
Best.-Nr. 123909Rare silver gelatin print signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann. Inscribed by him on the lower portion of the photograph "Mr. Satoru Yamano with all my good wishes Thomas Mann." Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 10 inches. German novelist short story writer and social critic Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 after he had been nominated by Anders Österling member of the Swedish Academy principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks 1901 The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg 1924 and his numerous short stories. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual and his analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. unknown
1845Best.-Nr. 823Bremen: Druck und Verlag von C. Schünemann 1845. First edition. In blue paper. Partly untrimmed uncut. With the stamp of the “Sozialdemokratischen Vereins Bremen” on title page. With several newspaper clippings from 1881 and 1882 related to the text mounted onto pages with no effect on legibility. Foxing throughout. Overall in very good condition. First edition. In blue paper. VIII 326 2 p. Guid book about the United States for German emigrants. Gives a detailed description of 27 American states that admitted to the Union until the date of the publication and in addition about Iowa and Wisconsin. It also includes a forty-page description of the United States the biography of George Washington and the translation of his Farewell Address that is most likely the first European edition in German translation of the speech. The book starts with the description of the Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States in 1776 gives detailed information about their geography demography political and legislative system history and provides also an agricultural and economic overview. The second part is the description of the United States its political legislative system its history and economy it gives information about the United States Army the immigration and about the agriculture and religion of the US. This followed by the description of the other sixteen states and the fifty-page biography of George Washington that includes the German translation of the entire Farewell Address. We could not trace any earlier German translations of the text that was published outside the US. The author Dudley Ambrose Mann 1801–1889 was an American diplomat and politician the consul of the United States in Bremen in 1842 the time when its harbour served as the most important and busy emigrant harbour of Central Europe. Later Mann has held various offices in Hungary and Switzerland in 1853 he was appointed the first ever Assistant Secretary of State and from 1861 served as the commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican. Sabin 44309; Howes US IANA M256. . Druck und Verlag von C. Schünemann unknown
Best.-Nr. 123909Rare silver gelatin print signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann. Inscribed by him on the lower portion of the photograph "Mr. Satoru Yamano with all my good wishes Thomas Mann." Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 10 inches. German novelist short story writer and social critic Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 after he had been nominated by Anders Osterling member of the Swedish Academy principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks 1901 The Magic Mountain Der Zauberberg 1924 and his numerous short stories. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual and his analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. unknown books
1842Best.-Nr. 1071951842. Boston: Fowle and Capen 1842. 8vo iv 390 pp. Old half calf marbled boards joints cracked text block sound but quite foxed especially at the front and back. Inscribed by the author and with the later signature of Mary C. Chapman on front pastedown. § Volume 4 of this series; this copy inscribed by Horace Mann: "C. Sumner from Horace Mann 1847." Horace Mann inscriptions are uncommon and this is a superb association. "Charles Sumner January 6 1811 - March 11 1874 was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen." Mary Chapman was involved with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and was a friend of poet Julia Ward Howe and close friend of Charles Sumner and Horace Mann. unknown
1921Best.-Nr. 14202München: Phantasus-Verlag 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition of this controversial novella. The present copy is number 25 of 30 numbered copies bound in Saffiano calfskin and SIGNED by Mann and illustrator Thomas Theodor Heine. Of a total edition of 530 copies issued in several bindings this is an example from the smallest limitation and it is a handsome binding indeed. The bottom spine compartment is flapping partly detached but holding precariously. The first and last few leaves are considerably foxed including the limitation page. Two ownership signatures to the first two leaves Ooherwise clean and sound internally. Altogether in good condition. Wälsungenblut The Blood of the Wälsungs was written in 1915 but withheld from publication owing to the similarities between the characters in the story and Mann's new in-laws. In 1905 Mann married Katja Pringsheim and it is believed based his story in part on Katja and her twin brother Klaus Pringsheim reinvented as Siegmund and Sieglinde Wagner's incestuous twins from Die Wälkure 1870 with echoes of the Volsunga Saga. The story was set for publication in the January 1906 issue of Die Neue Rundschau but after discovering the incestuous nature of the story Alfred Pringsheim Mann's father-in-law demanded that publication be withheld. Suppressed for fifteen years Wälsungenblut was finally published in 1921. It remains one of Mann's most controversial stories owing to its depiction of anti-Semitism and incest. The novella was adapted for the award-winning German film Wälsungenblut directed by Rolf Thiele in 1964. Though not in fine condition the book is genuinely rare in this deluxe binding and desirable thus. Phantasus-Verlag hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 117697London: Jarrolds 1930. First UK Edition and first printing in English. Issued under the publisher's Jay Library series at a price of 7/6. Basis for the classic 1930 film by Josef von Sternberg starring Emil Jannings and a very young Marlene Dietrich filmed simultaneously in both German and English. Very Good in a extremely bright and colorful Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed with evidence of exposure to moisture at the fore-edges. Jacket has no loss only a bit of shallow creasing at the spine ends. Jarrolds unknown books
1842Best.-Nr. 1071958vo. Boston: Fowle and Capen 1842. 8vo iv 390pp. Old half calf marbled boards binding sound text quite foxed especially at the front and back. § Volume 4 of this series; this copy inscribed by Horace Mann: : “C. Sumner from Horace Mann 1847”. Later signature of Mary C. Chapman. Horace Mann inscriptions are uncommon and this is a superb association. “Charles Sumner January 6 1811 – March 11 1874 was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederacy free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen.” Mary Chapman was involved with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and was a friend of poet Julia Ward Howe and close friend of Charles Sumner and Horace Mann. Fowle and Capen hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 142045London: Martin Secker 1928. First British edition of Mann's classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light shelfwear and small repairs to the verso. First editions are rare especially in the original dust jacket and in this condition. "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. Martin Secker hardcover
1954Best.-Nr. 34Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1954. True first edition. In original orange paper. Spine somewhat worn author and title written in ink. True first edition. In original orange paper. 441 1 6 p. Thomas Mann’s last unfinished picaresque novel that he “wrote” throughout almost his entire life about Felix Krull the confidence man. A parody of Goethe’s autobiography “Dichtung und Wahrheit” Poetry and Truth embellished with Mann’s ironic autobiographical allusions. Mann started to plan the book in 1905 and finished the first chapters already in 1911 than he ceased writing it for about four decades to continue it in the early 50s between 1950 and 1954. The first part published first in the collection of short stories in 1920 titled “Das Wunderkind” The Infant Prodigy the first separate edition was published in 1922. This one is the very first edition of the entire but still unfinished work. “Leseexemplars” were printed in limited number not for the market handed to booksellers and journalist weeks before the date of the proper publication. We could not trace any copies in libraries found only one copy in Hans-Peter Haack’s collection. Haack Hans-Peter: Erstausgaben Thomas Mann; 91.3. S. Fischer unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 91161Paris: Arthème Fayard 1950. Fine. Arthème Fayard Paris 1950 14 x 22.7 cm 2 volumes brochés New edition of the French translation.Spines slightly sunned with minor tears at the foot.Signed in manuscript by Thomas Mann on the endpapers of both volumes. Arthème Fayard unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 156516New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1925. First American Edition preceding the British edition by three years. The title story is the basis for the 1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde and Marissa Berenson. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better example of the rare dust jacket. Light foxing affecting the page block and last few leaves. Jacket is lightly edgeworn along the top edge with the usual toning on the spine panel and a shallow chip at the crown. In a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell box. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
Best.-Nr. 123789London Secker & Warburg 1928. . First UK edition; 8vo 19.5 x 13 cm; translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter from the original German ink spots to margins of p152-3 small marginal loss to edge of p.157 not affecting text occasional spot or mark throughout else very good clean copy; publisher's green cloth boards gilt lettering to upper board and spine a little faded around edges of boards spine quite faded; publisher's grey dust-jacket with red and black lettering to upper panel and spine small printing smudge across the 'o' of 'Mountain' spine a little faded and soiled some general signs of age small losses to all fore-corners and upper and lower joints though none affecting text or decoration overall very good due to age and scarce to find in such good condition; 271pp 1pp. A very good first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice alongside his other short stories Tristan and Tonio Kröger all of which were translated from German by H.T. Lowe-Porter for this edition. This story was based on Mann's own experience of Venice during the 1911 cholera epidemic and follows Gustav von Aschenbach and his infatuation with a young boy named Tadzio. Thomas Mann was a staunch social critic and Nazi opponent. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 and Death in Venice was turned into a notable opera by Benjamin Britten and an Oscar-nominated 1971 film. Some of his other famous works include The Magic Mountain Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus. London, Secker & Warburg, 1928. hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 4284New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First American edition. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the first American edition of Mann's justifiably famous The Magic Mountain in very nearly Fine condition. Slight discoloration to vellum of both spines. Internally unopened throughout resulting in bright fresh pages. One of just 200 copies signed by the author. Originally published as Der Zauberberg Mann's opus was worked and reworked over a period of 12 years starting in 1912 and finally seeing publication in 1924. It is a complex work on man European society and culture and the seemingly eternal questions; swirled together in an intoxicating blend of realism allegory and the ironic. Near Fine. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 77021New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. First American edition of Mann's classic retelling of the story of Dr. Faustus the man who sold his soul to the devil for 24 years of health and genius. Octavo original boards red topstain. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Joseph Golde thankful for his musical hospitality Chicago 23 Febr. 1950 Thomas Mann." A few notes in the text from the recipient near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Photograph of Mann by Yousuf Karsh. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by the author as he lived out his remaining years in Switzerland before passing away in 1955. Doctor Faustus is a re-shaping of the Faust legend set in the context of the first half of the 20th century and the turmoil of Germany in that period. The story centers on the life and work of the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkuhn. The narrator is Leverkuhn's childhood friend Serenus Zeitblom who writes in Germany between 1943 and 1946. It was adapted to West German television in Franz Seitz's 1982 starring Jon Finch as Adrian Leverkuhn. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. L685New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1937. Hardcover. Stated First Edition First Printing. 5.5 x 8in. ix. 585pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: 'For W. Bryher with my best wishes and thanks Heinrich Mann. Nice Sept. 1937.' An association copy the inscription is to Annie Winifred Ellerman the poet novelist and editor who used the pen name Winnifred Bryher. She and Mann frequently corresponded during his time in Nice which was the first of his many sanctuaries from the Nazi regime in the years to come being one of the earliest to intimate Germany's future. In their letters several years prior to the publication of 'Young Henry of Navarre' they discuss the special importance of English publishers translating the work of modern German authors with strong anti-Nazi sentiment. Mann calls these publications a 'practical help.' Friedman S. 2002. 'Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D. Bryher and Their Circle' p. 73 90 330 250 Signed books by Mann are scarce generally but especially so in English translation. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners boards with a hint of toning a small section ever so lightly discolored at the foot of the spine otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and completely unmarked and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows some light bouts of scuffing and several very small shallow chips from the edges spine somewhat tanned otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright colorful and distinct. As pictured. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
