Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie.
2 vols. 499, 477 pp. Original light grey ribbed cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering and colored top edges. 8vo (130 × 188 mm). In custom-made marbled board slipcase.
€ 7,500.00
181st–185th edition, issued as part of the Collected Works published in individual volumes by S. Fischer between 1922 and 1935. With a seven-line autograph dedication in ink in the first volume: "To Mr. Martin Frankenthal, | compatriot | in friendly exile | affectionately dedicated | Stockholm, 12 Dec. 1929 | Thomas Mann" (transl.). Two days earlier, on 10 December, Thomas Mann had received the Nobel Prize in Stockholm from King Gustav V of Sweden.
In flawless condition. Author’s presentation copy to the German collector Martin Frankenthal.
Bürgin II.1, p. 55. Cf. WG² 3 (first edition 1901).
