Tod in Venedig, Erstausgabe (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Gut. Erste Ausgabe. 33 S., 1 Blatt. Orig.-Broschur. "Thomas Manns Buch aber ist der Kunst gegenüber respektlos" (S. 30). Der Vorderumschlag mittig mit Knickspur, sonst noch gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. First German trade edition, first printing. 145, [3] pp. Publisher's half vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, spine label blocked in turquoise lettered in gilt. Text in the original German. Near Fine with slight rubbing and slight soiling to binding, spine darkened. Owner name to front free endpaper; contents lightly tanned. Thomas Mann's best-known works with strong homoerotic themes.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of one of the supreme short fictional works of the 20th century, only comparable in its iconic status with its exact contemporary - Kafka's 'Die Verwandlung' (Metamorphosis). Also considered to be the greatest piece of gay fiction ever. The first trade edition (after 60 signed and numbered copies) comprised no more than 2,000 copies. Such copies make no mention of edition. Thereafter the book was reprinted in batches of 1,000, and such copies bear the mention Dritte/Vierte/Funfte/Sechste Auflage etc on the title verso. This is a copy of the true first edition of 2,000 - a very rare and desirable item. Publisher's half-vellum binding with blue paper spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, integral silk marker. Attractive bookplate to front paste-down and early ownership inscription in German [not by Mann] to front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to title label and edges and corners but a perfectly clean and sound copy of this miniature masterpiece.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First Edition. First trade edition of one of the supreme short fictional works of the 20th century, only comparable in its iconic status with its exact contemporary - Kafka's 'Die Verwandlung' (Metamorphosis). Also considered to be the greatest piece of gay fiction ever. Unforgettably rendered in film by Visconti with Dirk Bogarde slowly dying to the plangent strains of Mahler. This first trade edition (after 60 signed and numbered copies) comprised just 1,000 copies. Such copies make no mention of edition. Thereafter the book was reprinted in batches of 1,000, and those copies bear the mention Zweite/Dritte/Vierte/Funfte/Sechste Auflage etc on the title verso. This copy is one of the very first 1,000 - an extremely rare and desirable item. Publisher's half-vellum binding with blue paper spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, integral silk marker. Minimal browning to spine vellum and trivial shelf scuffing to bottom corners else a very clean and perfectly sound copy of this miniature masterpiece.

First trade edition, first printing, one of only 1,000 copies only, of Mann's celebrated Venetian novella. Widely recognized as "one of the undisputed classics of contemporary European literature" and a "paradigmatic master-text of homosexual eroticism" (Adair, p. 14 and 93), Der Tod in Venedig is rooted in the author's personal experience. The inspiration came to Mann during a vacation in Venice in the summer of 1911. While staying at the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido, the author was captivated by the beauty of a 10-year-old Polish boy, W adys aw (W adzio) Moes, and then used him as the model for the protagonist Tadzio. Begun in July 1911, the work took a year to complete. Mann later admitted: "Nothing is invented in Death in Venice. The 'pilgrim' at the North, the dreary Pola boat, the grey-haired rake, the sinister gondolier, Tadzio and his family, the journey interrupted 14 by a mistake about the luggage, the cholera, the upright derk at the travel bureau, the rascally ballad singer, all that and anything else you like, they were all there. I had only to arrange them when they showed at once and in the oddest way their capacity as elements of composition" (ibid, p. 14-5). A signed limited edition of 60 copies was published in the same year. The story originally appeared in 1912, in two numbers of the journal Neue Rundschau, and subsequently in a private edition of 100 unsigned copies. Provenance: attractively designed bookplate of Dr. Kurt Krüger-Herbot (1884-1929), a German public prosecutor, engraved by Ernst Richter. Gilbert Adair, The Real Tadzio. Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and the Boy who Inspired It, 2001. Octavo. Original marbled paper boards, japon strip, blue paper label, white silk book marker. A fine copy.