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Thomas Mann

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Thomas Mann

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Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Highly influential, Nobel Prize–winning German novelist and social critic (1875–1955). Signed book: An Exchange of Letters. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. High quality softcover, 6.5 x 9.75, 12 pages. Boldly signed in black ink under his full page image opposite the title page. In fine condition, with uniform mild toning to inside pages and a bit of trivial wear to cover.

Mann published this booklet in 1937 to present a private exchange that he wanted to make public. His anti-Nazi and social critic stance is presented clearly in his reply to a letter from the Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University Of Bonn, who had written to inform Mann that his name had been struck off the list of honorary doctorates. Mann’s lengthy reply is that he no longer takes any pleasure in the honor, that German universities are very much accountable for not doing more to stop the rise of the Nazis to power, and that Harvard had recently given him an honorary degree. This rare signed edition offers a fascinating, intelligent rebuttal from the mind of a master storyteller.