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The first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, later made into an opera by Benjamin Britten.
The first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, later made into an opera by Benjamin Britten.
The first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, later made into an opera by Benjamin Britten.
The first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, later made into an opera by Benjamin Britten.

MANN, Thomas.

Death in Venice.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1928.

£2,800.00
£2,800.00

Death in Venice.

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A very good first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, alongside his other short stories Tristan and Tonio Kröger all of 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.

Stock code 123789

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The first UK edition of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, later made into an opera by Benjamin Britten.

Death in Venice.

£2,800.00
£2,800.00

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