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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A clean and unmarked softcover with an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel. No noteworthy up-turns to the paper-boards' corners. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 317-stated pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FINE virtually AS-NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing: FINE virtually AS-NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ AS-NEW edges & corners BUT w/ clear-tape reinforcing of bottom spine-cap & outside bottom corners, NEW blue linen-over-boards cover w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped within gilt border on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior BUT showing slightest self-dust soiling, SUPERB unblemished pale-ocher laid-wheat card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity in Jansen on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 7.26" x 10.24" x 1.50", 1.24 kg, xviii+444 (462) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Fortunately for us, brothers Heinrich & Thomas Mann remained devoted & eloquent correspondents even while disagreeing passionately on matters literary, political, philosophical, & personal. In their correspondence, set against a shifting backdrop of locations in Europe & America, mundane concerns blend easily w/ astonishing artistic & critical insights. That these irrepressible siblings were among the giants of 20th-century letters gives their exchanges unique literary & historical fascination. Beginning in Germany & Italy at the turn of the century, the letters document w/ disarming immediacy the brothers' views on aesthetics, politics, & the social responsibility of the writer, as well as their mutual jealousy, admiration, rivalry, & loyalty. The devastating rift caused by Thomas's support of Germany during World War I & his brother's utter opposition to the war took many years to mend, but they found their way back to friendship in the 1920s. After Hitler rose to power, both writers ultimately sought refuge in the United States. The letters offer a moving portrayal of their struggle, as novelists & socially engaged intellectuals, to bear witness to the cataclysmic historical changes around them & to their experience of exile, in Europe & then in America. This first complete English translation of their correspondence is a dramatic human dialogue & a major literary event. * ABOUT THE EDITOR ET ALS: HANS WYSLING as Director of the Thomas Mann Archive at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich. DON RENEAU is a freelance translator living in Connecticut. ANTHONY HEILBUT is author of "Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature" (California paperback, 1997). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 141 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Clean text. Lightly stained covers. Creases on covers and spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 27th Printing: October 1978. 141 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased and skewed spine. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Translated from the German by Michael Roloff and Micheal Lebeck. Just the lightest lines here and there to the text. From a scholar 's library which may be helpful to next reader. Very close to fine and bright illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing thus in Dent Everyman's Library Hardback xiv + 360 pp. + 8 pages publisher's adverts Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket (tiny closed nicks top of spine area. Jacket now protected by transparent sleeve). No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Used book in fair conditions. Binding remains square, heavily marked with blue and red pen and the cover has usual signs of wear without any major imperfection. Small stain on outer edge. DB.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 159 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

hardback, 8vo, xxx,731pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 9781857151077.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 468 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright Renewed 1959. 126 pp. Text in German. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minor damage to spine. Previous owner's name inscribed on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Jacket. First American Edition. 318 Pp. Grey Cloth Stamped In Maroon. First American Printing. Near Fine, Clean, No Mark. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Light Wear Around Base Of Spine, Minute Losses At Corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dial Press, New York, 1945, Hardcover, no statement of printing - assumed first American edition of this collection. Contains: The Gambler, Notes From Underground, Uncle's Dream, The Eternal Husband, The Double and The Friend of The Family. Book is Very Good but with some faint soiling on the boards, two small spots of stain and a line of tiny white spots on the spine - paint?, bumps to top and bottom of spine, binding holding just fine, internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Very Good minus - some chipping, scuffs, closed tears at the forward corners, jacket comes in a removable, archival mylar sleeve. A nice copy for its 80 plus years.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. 107pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. Owner's name written on front endpaper. No library stamps. Green slipcase in Near Fine condition. Book is elegantly bound in a Japanese-fold method. Boards covered with French marbled paper; spine is an olive leather, tough levant-grained fabric, stamped in pure gold leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair/Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Book appears to be an ex-lending library copy with lots of wear at edges spine and extremities and some chipping at tips, but no real markings or pockets save for a shadow of some sort at front cover. OW a pretty square looking copy of this seldom seen early edition of Mann's memoir of growing up under the Nazi's! Many glossy photos peppered throughout the book. 176 pages + 8 pages of photos. Introduction by the author's father, Thomas Mann.

Paper. Condition: Fine. First city Lights Edition. Bold black and white woodcuts by Masereel tell the story without any words, nor are any needed. Long intro. by Thomas Mann. Faint small corner crease to the front cover, otherwise a fine copy of a beautiful book. Fine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 904 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hardback. Thomas Mann. Stories and Episodes. Previous owners initials and date to inside cover. Couple of slight marks to spine of cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. The selection is made with the author's approval, and the Introduction by E. F. Bozman outlines the development of Mann's philosophy and offers an explanation why this great writer, fundamentally German in art and outlook, is ostracized by Nazidom. 359 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 904 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Produced in 1919, Passionate Journey uses Masereel's simple and precise woodcuts to present a story of one man's life and loves in post-World War I Berlin.  Woodcutter, painter, cosmopolitan and anti-militarist, Belgium-born Masereel (1889-1972) was an extremely popular artist in 1920s Germany. A contemporary of Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz, his "novels-without-words"--completely composed of woodcuts--have been neglected in the States. Here, 165 striking woodcuts generate the visual narrative of a young man's initiation into the urban milieu. The raw power and diversity of the city's day to day events continually expand his understanding of life's possibilities. The hero's fascination with the city's abundance of art and culture, political debate and industrial glory combine with observations on an equal profusion of poignant social trauma. The protagonist travels to distant lands; this journey of vibrant percipience propels him toward an enlarged comprehension of his role in a world of good and evil, love and tenderness and clashing social interests. Mann's effusive introduction discusses Masereel's life and influences and details the ideas that motivated and enliven this vivid work. Good condition. Minor bumping wear on cover edges.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. prev. owner's name written on tp229 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references.

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover with red leather spine with gilt lettering and decorations; boards covered in marbled paper; red endpapers; French-fold pages; b&w illustrations; limited edition 914/1500; Signed by Hoffmann. Book in like-new condition. Slipcase in fine condition: slight scuffing on bottom edge, otherwise excellent. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp.318, red cloth with purple title-band, gilt; light evidence of erased pencilling to title page of 'Michael Kohlhaas', foxing to fore-edges, spine lightly rolled, a very good copy, in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket, with light rubbing to extremities, and small closed tears to head of folds for spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1965. 171 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. The novel refers to the idea of Gnosticism, particularly the god Abraxas, showing the influence of Carl Jung's psychology. According to Hesse, the novel is a story of Jungian individuation, the process of opening up to one's unconsciousness.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 171 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943 (First Edition was issued in 1930).  XVI+ 340 pages + VII pp Introductory note to the First American Edition by Edwin Muir. NearFine to Fine Hardcover, no dj.    Illustrated Gray cloth, Black spine title. No Wear.  Clean book except  personal bookplate on the inside Front cover. Strong Tight binding and hinges.  8.33X5.75"X1.3".   be36. .

First Edition of this collection. Facsimiles of title-pages of early editions Lettering label on spine darkened and rubbed, otherwise a very nice copy; end-papers somewhat darkened, bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Second Edition.NearFine Hardcover, no dj. XVII+340 pages, Also VII pages of the Introductory Note to the first edition added in the back of the book. Gray cloth with Black stamping in front, Black/Blue spine title.Minimal wear to the top of the spine. One word (looks like a last name) penned on the Flyleaf otherwise clean throughout. Strong Tight binding and hinges. 8.25"x5.5"x1.5". be31.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. inscribed by Hollander, 448pp, octavo. Inscription reads, " To Mr. and Mrs. Bennett of Deep Well Ranch with thanks for all the lovely times we've spent here sincerely Frederick Hollander Thanksgiving 1941" Maria Bennett, the recipient, was a poet, writer, and scholar. She was invited by Robinson Jeffers to do his authorized biography, and was a noted bibliophile of the time. Frederick Hollander's first novel, introduction by Thomas Mann. inscription on front end paper, tight binding, clean blue boards with gold titles, faint edgewear, small mark to bottom page edges, white page edges on all sides, clean throughout nice color to covers, chipped edges, a few closed tears at the edges, clear images, small crease to front flap, very good-.

Hardcover. 0 (illustrator). First edition; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4; pp. 144; cloth-backed illustrated paper over boards; a bit of discoloration and spotting to boards; pages with small moisture ripples to margins (not affecting text and illustrations); gift inscription to half-title page; good to very good condition. Title, preface, index, and subtitles in Russian and in German.An incredible accomplishment and a standard point of reference for big part of the 20th century, the book encompassed the portraits,facsimile letters, signatures, and artwork of 137 of Russia's most accomplished authors and poets of all times - from Lomonosov, through Pushkin and Gogol, to Tolstoy, Block, and Akhmatova. The portraits, some of them from engravings, others from paintings, and still others from photographs, were originally created by renowned artists such as Mir Isskustva members Iurii Annenkov and Konstantin Somov and graphic artist Sergei Chekhonin. The author, Alexander Eliasberg (1878-1924), was a Jewish-Russian historian, translator, and author who had immigrated to Munich in 1905. Among his works, the present one was arguably his masterpiece, also evidenced by novelist and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's enthusiastic praises in the latter's preface to the book. OCLC lists 4 institutional holdings with none other presently in the trade. 2.