Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie by Mann, Thomas - 1916

Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1916. 67. - 72. Auflage. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 499pp. 477pp. Rebound in olive buckram with gold-lettered title-label. Decorative endpapers. Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning novel about four generations of a German family and their eventual downfall. The work portrays German bourgeois society throughout several decades of the nineteenth-century. Buddenbrooks is a transition novel, involving both 19th century realistic style and 20th century symbolism. Mann wrote the novel when he was only 26. Text in German, gothic script. Head of spine slightly bumped, spine sunned. Slight age toning to pages. Lower corners slightly bumped throughout. Tight copy with binding and interior in good+ condition.