MANN, Thomas.

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Wälsungenblut. First edition, signed limited issue, number 45 of 530 signed by the author and the illustrator; one of 69 bound in vellum.Mann wrote the story in 1906, but due to similarities between his new wife's family and the incestuous twins of his novella, the book was suppressed until 1921. Given the novel's plot and Mann's use of antisemitic tropes, the book remains among Mann's most controversial works.

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