MANN (Thomas).
The Buddenbrooks. (The Decline of a Family). Paris, A. Fayard et Cie, 1932. 2 volumes in-8, red half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Binding of the period). First edition of the first French translation, edited by Geneviève Blanquis.
One of 75 copies on vellum pur fil, the only large paper.
It is thanks to this novel, originally published in Berlin in 1901, that Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Imbued with naturalism, The Buddenbrooks narrate the decline of a rich merchant family in Lübeck, from 1835 to 1877, with a virtuosity in the socio-historical and psychological painting that recalls the best novels of Balzac or Zola.
A fine, well-bound copy.
Two small holes in the tail of the second volume.
