Buddenbrooks by Mann Thomas, Signed (4 results)

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition Thus. New York:Alfred A. Knopf. 1938. 1st thus. 604pp+4pp ads+colophon. Signed and dated by author on 1st free end-page. Hardcover. Black boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine dulled, wear along edges and spine ends, and edge points bumped with 3 of 4 worn to boards. Top page edges stained red with fore-edge and bottom edges age-toned.  Internally end-pages age-toned with author signature and date to 1st free end-page, but otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact, but cracked between 2nd and 3rd free end-page. . Signed by authors.

2 vols. 499, 477 pp. Original light grey ribbed cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering and colored top edges. 8vo (130 × 188 mm). In custom-made marbled board slipcase. 181st185th edition, issued as part of the Collected Works published in individual volumes by S. Fischer between 1922 and 1935. With a seven-line autograph dedication in ink in the first volume: "To Mr. Martin Frankenthal, | compatriot | in friendly exile | affectionately dedicated | Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1929 | Thomas Mann" (transl.). Two days earlier, on 10 December, Thomas Mann had received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm from King Gustav V of Sweden. - In flawless condition. Author's presentation copy to the German collector Martin Frankenthal. - Bürgin II.1, p. 55. Cf. WG 3 (first edition 1901).

787 pp. Original goatskin binding. 8vo. No. 225 of 300 copies of the deluxe jubilee edition marking the 50th anniversary of publication, signed in the colophon. Set in Garamond Antiqua by W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart; binding by Gustav Lachenmaier, Reutlingen. - In flawless condition.

An incredibly rare and unpublished letter relating to his perhaps most famous work1936 was a momentous year for Mann.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 L?beck, 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.".