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1930rif. 470136Stockholm: Imprimerie Royale. P. A. Norstedt & Soner 1930. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated reproducing photographic portraits of Thomas Mann and the other Nobel Laureates. White printed wrappers. Text in Swedish French and English. A fine partially unopened copy in original very good or better unprinted glassine dust jacket with light wear and tanning on spine. Includes the address by Fredrik Book awarding Thomas Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature "1929 Ars Nobelpris I Litteratur" and Thomas Mann's acceptance speech. Also prints a brief biographical essay about Mann. The other Nobel Laureates for that year were Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie Arthur Harden Hans von Euler-Chelpin Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Christiaan Eijkman also printing remarks by each of the scientists during "Les conferences Nobel." Mann was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature principally for his novel Buddenbrooks which is now recognized as one of the classic works of 20th century literature. Very scarce. OCLC appears to locate a single copy in Sweden. Imprimerie Royale. P. A. Norstedt & Soner unknown books
1932rif. 470170Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 12mo. 360pp. Owner's contemporary pencil name on front flyleaf gilt lettering on spine is very lightly rubbed at tips of spine else a fine bright copy in faintly spine-toned about fine dust jacket; yellow printed dust jacket has very faint tanning on spine else bright and crisp. Scarce in jacket. Paul Zsolnay Verlag hardcover books
1934rif. 470187Mount Vernon New York: Privately Printed 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition variant issue no priority. Octavo. 10pp. Quarter cloth and decorated silver paper-covered boards. Endpapers moderately foxed as usual else a fine copy issued without printed dust jacket. Printed for the Friends of Frederick Gould Rudge Christmas 1934". Two other issues exist one on Arnold handmade paper 60 copies printed and another with an imprint for Helen & Vernon Ives. This appears to be the scarcest of the three variants. Privately Printed hardcover books
1934rif. 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
1950rif. 470109New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 759pp. Near fine with some bumping at the corners in bright near fine dust jacket lightly worn at the corners and with a hint of sunning to the spine. Inscribed by editor Joseph Warner Angell to bibliographer Donald Gallup in the year of publication: "For Donald Gallup With many thanks for all you have done for me- Sincerely yours Joe Angell. 15 October 1950." A nice copy inscribed to the noted scholar. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1930rif. 514014Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 16mo. 143pp. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color pictorial endpapers. Blue pictorial paper-covered boards. A fine bright copy in what is likely the publisher's near fine unprinted glassine dust wrapper apparently lacking a slipcase. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1946rif. 447378Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag 1946. Softcover. Very Good. First German edition 12mo. 40 4pp. Printed buff wrappers. Pages a bit toned a nice very good or better copy. Suhrkamp Verlag unknown books
1967rif. 448203London: Howard Baker Publishers Limited 1967. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 12mo. 8pp. Stapled printed yellow wrappers. Fine. Howard Baker Publishers Limited unknown books
1930rif. 433236New York: Brewer and Warren 1930. Hardcover. Fine. First American edition and the first edition in English. Translated by Marion Saunders. Fine lacking the dustwrapper. Brewer and Warren hardcover books
1948rif. 434816New York: Allen Towne & Heath 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Owner's neat name front fly else fine in attractive very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends and some old intern al tape shadows. Allen, Towne & Heath hardcover books
1939rif. 427689Cincinnati Ohio: The Little Man 1939. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated by James Flora. Printed wrappers. Slight paper imperfection to bottom edge of lower wrapper else fine. First issue of the idiosyncratic magazine published by Robert Lowry consisting of three fragments by William Saroyan and a letter by Thomas Mann. The Little Man unknown books
1948rif. 399333Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First Swedish edition. 554pp. Translated from the German by Nils Holmberg. Text in Swedish. Three quarter green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title horizontal lines on papercovered boards. Spine lightly faded edges a bit tanned with corners modestly worn else very good. Albert Bonniers Forlag hardcover books
1955rif. 166581Berlin: S.Fischer 1955. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Pictorial self-wrappers. Text in German. Extremities modestly worn rear panel tanned still very good. S.Fischer unknown books
1960rif. 380443London: MacGibbon & Kee 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Foxing on the foredge slight sunning near fine in slightly rubbed very good dustwrapper. Short stories by the daughter of Thomas Mann. MacGibbon & Kee hardcover books
2003rif. 363716New York: Kensington Books 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Very slight bowing to boards else fine in a fine dustwrapper. Kensington Books hardcover books
1945rif. 343973London & Montevideo: Verlag Dinge der Zeit 1945. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 29pp. Illustrated wrappers. Clippings on the last two blanks which also bear an owner's name stamp toning on wrappers still a sound very good copy. Verlag Dinge der Zeit unknown books
1939rif. 340063Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag 1939. Softcover. Good. First edition. Flexible card boards with applied printed dustwrapper. Erosion and loss at the spine some small chips and tears a good copy. Bermann-Fischer Verlag unknown books
1934rif. 295575Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Text in German. Very good with a little browning to the spine and edges of the front panel; lacking dustwrapper. S. Fischer Verlag hardcover books
1962rif. 283868New York: The Heritage Press 1962. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Fine in boards and slipcase as issued. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1960rif. 102896no place-Zurich: no publisher-the Federal German Foreign Office 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a small stain on the rear panel in stapled wrappers. (no publisher-the Federal German Foreign Office) unknown books
1929rif. 73923Berlin & Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Unstalt Stuttgart 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Text in German. Front fly with owner's stamp; boards and page edges lightly spotted thus very good in very good sunned dustwrapper. Deutsche Verlags-Unstalt Stuttgart hardcover books
1960rif. 50237CT: Wesleyan University Press 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Wesleyan University Press hardcover books
1997rif. 618070Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound quarto. Blue wrappers. Translated from the German with a note by Peter Constantine. Edited with an introduction by Burton Pike. Slight edgewear else fine with publisher's material laid in. Sun & Moon Press unknown books
2005rif. 584908New York: Billboard Books 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 628pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's material laid in. Billboard Books hardcover books
2012rif. 585931Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 566pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages age-toned else fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover books
