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Doctor Faustus:The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend (First Modern Library edition, ML #365.1)
by MANN, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, February 1966 (confirmed). Full title: Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend. Thomas Mann's more modern take on the old German Faustian legend is told using the vehicle of this fictional composer's life story. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter, who has provided a note on the translation. --- In Toledano spine 11 / rust cloth / ML hex logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style l / verso blank. ML #365.1. --- A clean, bright, unmarked copy though with faint shallow creases to fore-edges of most leaves. Dust jacket bears original $2.45 flap price; with rubbing and small tears to extremities; but overall bright and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; vi, 511, [10, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88055
- Title
- Doctor Faustus:The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn as Told by a Friend (First Modern Library edition, ML #365.1)
- Author
- MANN, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
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