The Tables Of The Law
by Mann, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945; First Edition; 8vo, 64 pages; green cloth; gilt spine, gilt front board graphics, red topstain. Thomas Mann’s compelling novella on the life of Moses, which first appeared in 1943 as part of a larger collection of ten novellas edited by literary agent Armin L. Robinson and published by Simon & Schuster under the name "The Ten Commandments, Ten Short Novels Of Hitler’s War Against The Moral Code." The stories were written by ten different authors chosen from around the world, each of whom was assigned an individual Commandment, the overall purpose being an international condemnation of Nazi atrocities. Mann was assigned the First Commandment and his piece was entitled "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me" ("Das Gesetz," or "The Law" in German). In 1945 Alfred A. Knopf published Mann’s novella separately here, in book form, as "The Tables Of The Law." Design by Paul Rand, translation into English by Helen T. Lowe-Porter. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket that has a miniscule wrinkle at the upper left corner of the front panel.
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- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6452
- Title
- The Tables Of The Law
- Author
- Mann, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Religion, Thomas Mann, Moses, Judaism, Jews, The Bible, Nazis, Nazism, Ten Commandments
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- Modern First Editions;
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