MANN, Thomas.

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Sketch of My Life. First edition in English, number 27 of 75 copies on Imperial Japan vellum, signed by the author. This copy additionally inscribed on the front free endpaper by its designer Monroe Wheeler, "For Francis at Christmas 1945, with affectionate greetings from Monroe". Mann's autobiographical sketch was originally published in German as "Lebensabriß" in Die Neue Rundschau, June 1930, and is translated here by H. T. Lowe-Porter.Harrison of Paris was founded by the publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott (1904-1977) and the art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988) in the year of publication.

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