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Joseph in Egypt by Thomas Mann 2 Vol Set Slipcase Nobel Prize Masterpiece
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Book Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Hardcover. Book Condition: VG+. Sixth printing. Black blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. A near fine, tight, bright set in a good original slipcase. Both books are in very close to fine condition. No fading, foxing, bumping, spotting. Tight binding, clean pages, clean closed page edges. The lettering on the spine is bright and bold. Volume One has been FLAT SIGNED by Thomas Mann the the ffep. A map of Joseph's journey into Egypt, prepared by C. E. Riddilford, is bound in at the end of Volume One. The slipcase is complete and intact. It is slightly soiled and gently toned at the edges.
All the books we auction are unique, rare and scarce. Most are 1st Editions or early copies. We deal with books, ideas and writers of substance. Why pay $30 for a new book with no real value intellectually, spiritually or financially — when you can hold a true literary treasure.
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Joseph In Egypt
by Thomas Mann
1938 ~ 1st Edition 6th Printing w/ slipcase
The Great Nobel Prize winning masterpiece
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Knopf/Borzoi, 1938. VG+ for age. Interior ffep's on both volumes are tore, w/ V2 having name in pen on interior. Boards are solid, very mild wear. Slipcase is toned, has scuffs, plate on rear, sticker on top, small tears, surface flaws, edge wear. A solid copy.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.
His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952.
Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg 1924), and his numerous short stories. (Precisely, due to the personal taste of an influential committee member, only Buddenbrooks was explicitly cited.) Based on Mann's own family, Buddenbrooks relates the decline of a merchant family in Lübeck over the course of three generations. The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924) follows an engineering student who, planning to visit his tubercular cousin at a Swiss sanatorium for only three weeks, finds his departure from the sanatorium delayed. During that time, he confronts medicine and the way it looks at the body and encounters a variety of characters who play out ideological conflicts and discontents of contemporary European civilization. Later, other novels included Lotte in Weimar (1939), in which Mann returned to the world of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774); Doktor Faustus (1947), the story of composer Adrian Leverkühn and the corruption of German culture in the years before and during World War II; and Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, 1954), which was still unfinished at Mann's death.
In Buddenbrooks, at several places he uses the Low German of the northern part of the country.
To his greatest works belongs the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder, 1933–42), a richly imagined retelling of the story of Joseph related in chapters 27-50 of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
All the books we auction are unique, rare and scarce. Most are 1st Editions or early copies. We deal with books, ideas and writers of substance. Why pay $30 for a new book with no real value intellectually, spiritually or financially — when you can hold a true literary treasure.
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Joseph In Egypt
by Thomas Mann
1938 ~ 1st Edition 6th Printing w/ slipcase
The Great Nobel Prize winning masterpiece
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Knopf/Borzoi, 1938. VG+ for age. Interior ffep's on both volumes are tore, w/ V2 having name in pen on interior. Boards are solid, very mild wear. Slipcase is toned, has scuffs, plate on rear, sticker on top, small tears, surface flaws, edge wear. A solid copy.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.
His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952.
Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, principally in recognition of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg 1924), and his numerous short stories. (Precisely, due to the personal taste of an influential committee member, only Buddenbrooks was explicitly cited.) Based on Mann's own family, Buddenbrooks relates the decline of a merchant family in Lübeck over the course of three generations. The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924) follows an engineering student who, planning to visit his tubercular cousin at a Swiss sanatorium for only three weeks, finds his departure from the sanatorium delayed. During that time, he confronts medicine and the way it looks at the body and encounters a variety of characters who play out ideological conflicts and discontents of contemporary European civilization. Later, other novels included Lotte in Weimar (1939), in which Mann returned to the world of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774); Doktor Faustus (1947), the story of composer Adrian Leverkühn and the corruption of German culture in the years before and during World War II; and Confessions of Felix Krull (Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, 1954), which was still unfinished at Mann's death.
In Buddenbrooks, at several places he uses the Low German of the northern part of the country.
To his greatest works belongs the tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder, 1933–42), a richly imagined retelling of the story of Joseph related in chapters 27-50 of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
