Mann Thomas Extensively Annotated by a L Rowse (1 results)
Language: English
- Hardcover
Seller: Chesil Books, DORCHESTER, , United KingdomChesil Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1942, first English edition; 8vo, 150 x 212mm; pp [xvii], 280, [7, being publisher catalogues and a note on the technicalities of the book's typesetting and related information on Janson]; blue cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dustwrapper a littl…e frayed but overall in good condition. . . . The work was published simultaneously in the US by Knopf and Canada by Ryerson, copies being supplied in the UK of the US version with a discreet sticker on the inner flap of the dust wrapper indicating publication there by Secker and Warburg, London. This particular copy was sent by Secker & Warburg to A L Rowse to review and contains extensive jottings in pencil throughout as well as loose inserts, being a commission letter from the Observer, a review identifying note from Secker & Warburg, and notes by Rowse. . . . Rowse's views of the book and of Mann are, as one might expect, acerbic and far from flattering. He notes on the dust wrapper under the portraits of Mann "The Great Man - Grim egoist" and under his own name on the front pastedown the comment "Ghastly grim readg.". The title offers the view "Unbearable to read" while its verso has the note "takes himself like the Great Man he wasn't". A unique copy.