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1972255812New York: Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited. hardcover. fine. Felix Hoffmann. Translated by Kenneth Burke with an Introduction by Erich Heller. Illustrated with Wood-Engravings by Felix Hoffmann. 106pp. Thin 4to red leather-backed marbled boards gilt-stamped spine matching board slipcase. New York: Limited Editions Club 1972. A fine copy in a fine box.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the Illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
192853762London: Martin Secker 1928. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; green cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and title; uncut pages; 271pp. sunning to the spine and board edges; faint dust soil to upper textblock; tiny bookseller's ticket inside rear cover The Seven Bookhunters NYC Very Good lacking the dustjacket. <br/><br/>Inspiration of the film Death in Venice original Italian title: Morte a Venezia a 1971 Italian-French drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde and Björn Andrésen. Martin Secker unknown books
1965101643New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1965. Reprint Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket and slipcase. Jacket has a crease and nick and the front pane and rubbed spine ends. Slipcase has a few tiny bruises else bright. Basis for the 1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde and Marissa Berenson. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
192567022New 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. Signed by Thomas Mann on the half-title page. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chipping to the head of the spine and rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare especially so signed. "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
192568098New 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
19892309951New York: Vintage International 1989. Trade Paperback. Good. Front wrapper creased along spine ink marks on bottom page ridge minor pencil underlining. 1989 Trade Paperback. 402 pp. "Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself" highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella. Vintage International paperback books
1993262120New York: Book-of-the-Month Club 1993. Hardcover. 402p. frontis-portrait very good Book Club edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Triangle Classics series: illuminating the Gay & Lesbian experience. Book-of-the-Month Club hardcover books
1971151550N.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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Venice Italy. <br/><br/>12 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and two small closed tears to left edge. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 962. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Alfa Cinematografica unknown books
1965292709New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1965. Anniversary Editoin. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition issued by Knopf in 1965. The publishers burgundy cloth binding is bright; there are no ownership or other marks of any kind; a bit of offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket The dustjacket has little wear. The publisher's slipcase is present; it has a bit of quite trivial rubbing but is generally bright and attractive. Altogether an excellent copy. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
199408977New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1994. Wrappers. Fine. Octavo. A New Translation Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. "Instructor's Desk Copy" stamped in gilt rear wrapper. First Edition Thus. Fine copy in original color illustrated wrappers. viii 237 pp. Ads. Printed return postcard with W. W. Norton address laid-in. <br/><br/> W. W. Norton & Company unknown books
197265105New York: Limited Editions Club 1972. First edition with the Hoffman illustrations 1/1500 copies this #192 signed by the illustrator. Small 4to 28 cm. 106 1 pp. In-text illustrations from wood engravings. LEC Monthly Letter tipped to rear endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown else very good. Red faux quarter-leather and marbled boards gilt title and ornaments on spine publisher's red board slipcase fore-edges tipped with marbled paper gilt spine title. 11000. <br/><br/> Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1914108316Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1914. 77 iiip. wraps slightly worn front wrap has faint pencil erasures. Debate topic: Resolved that economic organization is sufficient and political action unnecessary to the emancipation of the working class. Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
1948D4905New York: Henry Holt and Company 1948. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Publisher's cloth; illustrated dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips a little frayed. Large chip out of front panel spine and rear panel of dust jacket eliminating text; otherwise lightly rubbed and age-toned; not price-clipped in mylar. First edition with the foreword by Thomas Mann. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
1965132240Germany: Atlas Films 1965. Original German A1 poster for a 1965 re-release of the 1930 German film. <br/><br/>From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in Josef von Sternberg's classic tale of love and obsession. Professor Immanuel Rath Emil Jannings is a strict and humorless schoolmaster who is shocked when he discovers the boys in his class have been spending their time at a sleazy cabaret called The Blue Angel where an entertainer named Lola Dietrich keeps the men in thrall and sells suggestive postcards of herself. "The Blue Angel" was shot in both German and English language versions; the German is preferable as most of the cast were obviously more expert in that tongue. Dietrich introduced what would become her theme song "Falling In Love Again" in this film. <br/><br/>23 x 33 inches folded. Several short tears at the edges light rubbing. Very Good plus overall. Atlas Films unknown books
193332359Amsterdam: Querido 1933. First edition. Yellow cloth in slightly chipped dust jacket designed by Jewish typographer and book designer Henri Friedlaender. Publsher's prospectus inserted. Mann's first work of exile literature. <br/><br/> Querido hardcover books
191454219Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing 1914. Paperback. Fair. illustrations 4 color photos color folding map index 159p. 26cm. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover worn. Contents sound. German text. Monographien zur Weltgeschichte No. 32. <br/><br/> Velhagen & Klasing paperback books
192432368München: Gunther Langes 1924. First edition. Original cloth backed boards near-fine copy. <br/><br/> Gunther Langes hardcover books
1898178388Berlin: Fischer 1898. First. hardcover. very good. Small 8vo 3/4 suede over mottled bronze paper boards. Berlin: S. Fischer 1898. First Edition. A collection of six short stories. His first published book written when Mann was twenty three years old. The binding is unlettered and worn with dust soiling to suede; internally fine aside for light foxing on last several pages and one or two spots on preliminary pages. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Fischer unknown books
191932356Hannover: Paul Steegmann 1919. First edition. Original wrappers. 16 pp. 4 ll ads. Spine partially split else very good. <br/><br/> Paul Steegmann unknown books
1913140941253Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1913. Very Good. Signed by Thomas Mann on the title page. First trade edition eighteenth printing. 145 3 pp. Publisher's quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards spine label blocked in turquoise with gilt lettering. In the original German. Very Good with rubbing to marbled paper light wear small stain to fore edge. An uncommon signed copy of one of the author's best-known works with strong homoerotic themes. S. Fischer, Verlag unknown books
19246070Berlin: S. Fischer 1924. Nice edition of the great novella. 30 cml 197 pages. Text in German. Bound in paper-covered boards with vellum backstrip. A bit bowed but still very good. S. Fischer hardcover books
191398970Berlin: 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 books
1928140941600Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Very Good. Signed limited edition copy number 127 of 1000 copies issued to commemorate the 100th printing of Thomas Mann's literary masterpiece. Two volumes bound in publisher's original striped paper-covered boards over parchment spines stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; with frontispiece by Olaf Gulbransson. text in German. Very Good with rubbing and light soiling to bindings former owner name to title pages. Front hinge of volume 2 is pilled and slightly cracked other hinges are rather tight. A monumental novel and a towering literary achievement of the 20th century often hailed as one of the most influential works of German literature. S. Fischer Verlag unknown books
1958150167N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Sophia Loren on the set of the 1958 film. With a Photoplay Library stamp on the verso along with the stamp of photographer Bill Avery and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play. A greedy New England farmer marries for a third time after working his first two wives to death. Trouble ensues when his new wife a headstrong Italian woman begins an affair with his youngest son.<br/><br/>Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early 20th century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
199540786Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press 1995. Paperback. Very good. 167pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> Westminster John Knox Press paperback books