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Death in Venice
by Mann, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Flexible red cloth decorated in gilt and black. This edition, designed by George Salter, is part of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the first Borzoi Book. It restores to print the much-admired translation of Der Tod in Venedig by Kenneth Burke. Fine condition but for slight offset to endpages. The DJ is price clipped and sunned to spine. The slipcase has a pen mark and faint shelfwear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages .
Synopsis
The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. It was first published in English in 1925 as Death in Venice and Other Stories, translated by Kenneth Burke. W. H. Auden called it the definitive translation.
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37012
- Title
- Death in Venice
- Author
- Mann, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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