543 - [MANN (Thomas), VALÉRY (Paul), et al.]. Conversations on Goethe on the Centennial of His Death, with Two Unpublished Drawings of Goethe. Paris, League of Nations—International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation, [1932]. In-8 (22.3 x 16.3 cm), 198 pp., 1 f., half-basane, ribbed spine bearing the initials V. A. at the bottom (contemporary binding).

[MANN (Thomas), VALÉRY (Paul), et al.]. Conversations on Goethe on the Centennial of His Death, with Two Unpublished Drawings of Goethe. Paris, League of Nations—International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation, [1932]. In-8 (22.3 x 16.3 cm), 198 pp., 1 f., half-basane, ribbed spine bearing the initials V. A. at the bottom (contemporary binding). A collection of interviews held from May 12 to 14, 1932, in Frankfurt am Main under the auspices of the Permanent Committee on Literature and the Arts of the League of Nations. Illustrated with two previously unpublished drawings of Goethe as inserts. Contains contributions from leading European intellectual and literary figures of the interwar period: Thomas Mann (“Goethe and the Writer’s Vocation” / “Contrasts in Goethe” / “Goethe and Germany”), Paul Valéry (“How I See Goethe” / “The Man of the Universe” / “On the Renewal of Taste”), Karel Čapek, Salvador de Madariaga, Henri Focillon, Jules Destrée, A. Costa du Rels, Julien Luchaire, Gilbert Murray, Ugo Ojetti, Georges Opresco, Ragnar Oestberg, Roberto Paribeni, Gonzague de Reynold, N. Roll-Anker, Josef Strzygowski, Hélène Vacaresco, and A. W. Wætzoldt. Binding partially sun-faded, a few scuffs, small tear with no loss on p. 161; otherwise a very fine copy. From the library of Vincent AURIOL (1884–1966), former President of the French Republic, with his initials in gold on the spine.