Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie.

Berlin: S. Fischer, 1922. Gesammelte Werke. 499/477 pages.

Two-volume set. Each volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.5", is bound in quarter beige cloth, with black-lettered dark brown spine label and black & brown ornamental designs to spine, and with green paper-covered boards showing author's emblem. Text blocks have tinted top edges. Bindings are firm. Previous owner's name appears on front flyleaf of first volume. Endpapers display foxing. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jackets reproduce spine design and show traces of sticker removal on spine. Jackets otherwise exhibit light wear.

The novel depicts the life and decline of four generations of a prominent, wealthy merchant family from Lübeck. The story was based on Mann's own family history. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 for this novel.