Lot 951
* Th. Mann, Buddenbrooks. 2 vols. Berlin 1901.
Estimate
€ 4.000
Starting Price
€ 3.000
Lot:
951
Category:
Literature of the 20th century
Artist:
Thomas Mann
Mann Thomas: Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie. 2 vols. Berlin: S. Fischer 1901. 18 x 12,3 cm. 566 pp.; 539 pp., 4 ll. (publisher's advert). Original grey linen binding with black and gold embossing and top-edges gilt.
(Corners and edges rubbed; spine tanned and slightly mould-stained. Binding rusted and exposed in places. Endpapers stained with glue. pp. 17/18 in Vol. 1 with a torn corner and loss of text over 7 lines; pp. 483/484 almost entirely lost following a tear; both leaves supplemented with photocopies. The last 80 pages have a small water stain on the lower outer margin. Vol. 2 bears a owner’s inscription in ballpoint pen on the flyleaf. Pages 16/17 and 32/33 in the spine have old adhesive tape repairs; the first two quires are loose in the binding. Some leaves have creased corners. Occasional minimal foxing and finger stains in the white margins.)
Potempa, D 1, 1. - A rare first edition of Thomas Mann’s debut novel, with which the writer – then aged just 25 – achieved his literary breakthrough. In “Buddenbrooks”, Mann depicts the gradual economic, social and personal decline of a Lübeck merchant family over four generations. The novel is regarded as one of the most significant works of early 20th-century German literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. – ‘A psychological portrait of the German middle classes, with which not only they themselves but also the European middle classes as a whole could identify’ (Thomas Mann, 1929).
(Corners and edges rubbed; spine tanned and slightly mould-stained. Binding rusted and exposed in places. Endpapers stained with glue. pp. 17/18 in Vol. 1 with a torn corner and loss of text over 7 lines; pp. 483/484 almost entirely lost following a tear; both leaves supplemented with photocopies. The last 80 pages have a small water stain on the lower outer margin. Vol. 2 bears a owner’s inscription in ballpoint pen on the flyleaf. Pages 16/17 and 32/33 in the spine have old adhesive tape repairs; the first two quires are loose in the binding. Some leaves have creased corners. Occasional minimal foxing and finger stains in the white margins.)
Potempa, D 1, 1. - A rare first edition of Thomas Mann’s debut novel, with which the writer – then aged just 25 – achieved his literary breakthrough. In “Buddenbrooks”, Mann depicts the gradual economic, social and personal decline of a Lübeck merchant family over four generations. The novel is regarded as one of the most significant works of early 20th-century German literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. – ‘A psychological portrait of the German middle classes, with which not only they themselves but also the European middle classes as a whole could identify’ (Thomas Mann, 1929).