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Buddenbrooks (Modern Library #57.3)
by MANN, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Fair with no dust jacket. [c.1938]. Flexible cloth. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Thomas Mann. "Buddenbrooks" is the story of a German merchant family, closely resembling the author's family. This very successful book was cited by the presenters of the Nobel Prize in Literature when awarding it to Mann in 1929. Volumes I and II combined in a single book. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter. --- In Toledano spine 7 / brown balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with interconnected "ML" device / brown topstain / orange Kent endpapers / volume lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1938 (though 1924 date appears in book). ML #57.3. --- With complete loss of spine gilding, a spot of soiling to textblock fore-edge, crease to front cover and rather loose binding, else an intact, unmarked copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (8), 389, 359, (8, ads) pages .
Synopsis
Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. The book is generally understood as a portrait of the German bourgeois society throughout several decades of the 19th century.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87365
- Title
- Buddenbrooks (Modern Library #57.3)
- Author
- MANN, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Flexible cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1938]
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Cloth
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- Device
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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