Thomas Mann
Stories of Three Decades.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First edition  Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. ix/567 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.75", is bound in oatmeal cloth-covered boards with brown lettering and green horizontal rules on the front board and spine; top page edges tinted green; page fore edges roughcut. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior.Salmon-colored dust jacket designed by George Salter (one of his first for Knopf), exhibits minor loss at top of spine panel. 
"One afternoon in January 1935, I was talking with Thomas Mann in his home outside Zurich. The second volume of "Joseph" was in type but the end of the work was nowhere in sight and it appeared that Dr. Mann would not be represented on my 1936 list. A pity. Suddenly the idea for the present volume came to me. Collected volumes of short stories of distinguished writers are common in Europe, if by collected you will understand complete. Thus the "Gesammelte Novellen" of Thomas Mann were published in two volumes fourteen years by Fischer in Berlin.
My suggested pleased my friend and some weeks later in Paris I received from him the table of contents and the scheme -- though not the title -- of the present volume.
The scheme is simple -- here is gathered together all his shorter prose fiction up to the present time -- work the creation of which has been spread over a whole generation. Many of these stories have not heretofore appared in English; some have been published in less felicitous versions than the masterly renderings of Mrs. Lowe; others have long been on my list. Mrs. Lowe is responsible now for the entire text and Dr. Mann has written a valuable and informing preface."
(Text by Alfred A. Knopf on front flap).