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Der Tod in Venidig Death in Venice.

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

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Joseph in Egypt.

1938réf. 96001New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First American edition of the third installment of Mann's four-part novel retelling the vast saga of Genesis which Mann considered his greatest work. Octavo 2 volumes pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Herr Pforzheimer herrlich dankbar fur schonste reichste Gastfreundschaft" which translates as "thankful for a beautiful summer day in his wonderful estate." The recipient Carl H. Pforzheimer was a founder of the American Stock Exchange and amassed a large fortune on Wall Street as a specialist in Standard Oil stock. He was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts and built the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle which contained nearly 25000 items and is now housed in the New York Public Library. In near fine condition. In the rare original glassine and original pictorial slipcase. Rare and desirable. Mann wrote the four-part novel Joseph and His Brothers over the course of 16 years. Set in the 14th century B.C.E. the tetralogy presents the story of Genesis in standard Egyptian chronology from the ascension of Akehnaten to the death and funeral of Jacob. A dominant topic of the novel is Mann's exploration of mythical truths in the midst of the emergence of monotheism as well as the central notion of the underworld and man's descent into it. "Against an extraordinarily vivid background of the pace of life in all its detail is told the inside story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife up to its climax when -- defeated in her determination to win his love she turns against him and Potiphar unwillingly is forced to give him to Pharaoh as slave and prisoner. So much for the pattern of the tale. But the philosophy and understanding and interpretation is Mann's -- and for that it is a book not to passed over. One of the great masters of prose today Mann gives us some of his best in this stupendous work" Kirkus Reviews. Alfred A. Knopf unknown

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