With an Introduction by Mann Thomas (6 results)

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.

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.…

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.). …

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.…

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. 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. …