Death in Venice.

£2,800 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A very good first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, alongside his other short stories Tristan and Tonio Kröger which were translated from German by H.T. Lowe-Porter for this edition. This story was based on Mann's own experience of Venice during the 1911 cholera epidemic and follows Gustav von Aschenbach and his infatuation with a young boy named Tadzio. Thomas Mann was a staunch social critic and Nazi opponent. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 and Death in Venice was turned into a notable opera by Benjamin Britten and an Oscar-nominated 1971 film. Some of his other famous works include The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks and Doctor Faustus. First UK edition; 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter from the original German, ink spots to margins of p152-3, small marginal loss to edge of p.157 not affecting text, occasional spot or mark throughout else very good, clean copy; publisher's green cloth boards, gilt lettering to upper board and spine, a little faded around edges of boards, spine quite faded; publisher's grey dust-jacket with red and black lettering to upper panel and spine, small printing smudge across the 'o' of 'Mountain,' spine a little faded and soiled, some general signs of age, small losses to all fore-corners and upper and lower joints, though none affecting text or decoration, overall very good due to age and scarce to find in such good condition; 271pp, [1]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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