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SIGNED BY THOMAS MANN
80
THOMAS MANN
Lotte i Weimar.
Stockholm: Bonniers, 1946. Later printing. Leatherbacked
marbled boards. Intarsia in red and yellow to the spine.
Bound with all parts of dust wrapper and wrapper, including
spines. A beautiful copy!
INSCRIBED: Till min käre vän PO (”To my dear friend PO
- in other hand) SIGNED by Thomas Mann.
«Lotte in Weimar: The beloved returns» is Thomas Mann’s
tribute to Johan Wolfgang von Goethe. In September
1816, Charlotte Kestner comes to Weimar. She hopes to
meet Goethe, who was the flame of her youth. 44 years
earlier, Goethe had made Charlotte immortal by writing
her - in the role of Lotte - into the novel The Sufferings of
Young Werther. The book was published in 1939 and was
written when Mann [1875–1955] was in exile in the USA,
not as a continuation of Goethe’s novel, but more in the
form of a fictional nachspiel to it. Thomas Mann received
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
5 000,- | £375 | $470
SIGNED BY BJARNE MELGAARD
81
BJARNE MELGAARD
Alarma! Boyfriends.
New York: Karma, 2012. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.
A fine copy.
SIGNED by Bjarne Melgaard to title page, dated 2012.
Bjarne Melgaard is one of Norway’s most internationally
recognized contemporary artists.
“They decided to go to Mexico to be ALARMA! Magazines‘s
new cover stars. Since they were lazy they chose a luxury
resort instead of Mexico City. The whole idea was to act
so stupid that they would be killed and cut up in pieces
as dumb tourists looking for drugs.”
3 000,- | £225 | $285
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HENRY MILLER
The Rosy Crucifixion. Book Two. Plexus I-II.
Paris: The Olympia Press, [1953]. First edition, first
printing. 8vo. Publisher’s wrappers.
No. 1844 of 2000 copies. Rear wrapper stating: Printed
in France. 2,200 Francs the two vols.
LAID IN: Folded sheet with ”A list of unusual books just
published by The Olympia Press.
Spine ends with just a very light hint of wear, else a fine
and square set indeed.
Part two of Miller’s The Rosy Crucifixion-Trilogy, a fictionalized
account documenting the six-year period of Henry
Miller’s life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife
June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his
initial departure for Paris in 1928. The first part being
«Sexus» and the third «Nexus».
3 500,- | £265 | $330
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