Typed Letter, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt, on Munich letterhead, thanking him for portrait photographs

by Thomas Mann

$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Signed

One page, signed in black ink. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds, pinhole tear at center, else fine. Item #263154 German author Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel prize in lterature in 1929, and Alfred Eisenstaedt was there to take his picture. Mann writes the young photographer to acknowledge receipt of photographs, reading in part: «Die Aufnahmen sind ebenso wohlgelungen wie die vorigen, besonders gefallen mir die Grossaufnahmene von mir allein und

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