Thomas Mann – Death in Venice – First Edition 1928 – Death in Venice – with SIGNATURE and DATE from Mann
£975.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Death in Venice’ published by Martin Secker in 1928. A very good book with bookplate to the front pastedown SIGNED ‘Thomas Mann/London/17th May 1949’ (signed at a PEN meeting in Knightsbridge). Spine sunned with some spotting. Wear to the corners. ‘Der Tod in Venedig’, Berlin 1912 – an English translation by Kenneth Burke was published in New York in 1924. A the first British appearance of Mann’s disturbing, mythic tale of longing in which an author fixates on a teenaged boy.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Death in Venice’ published by Martin Secker in 1928. A very good book with bookplate to the front pastedown SIGNED ‘Thomas Mann/London/17th May 1949’ (signed at a PEN meeting in Knightsbridge). Spine sunned with some spotting. Wear to the corners. ‘Der Tod in Venedig’, Berlin 1912 – an English translation by Kenneth Burke was published in New York in 1924. A the first British appearance of Mann’s disturbing, mythic tale of longing in which an author fixates on a teenaged boy.
