Doktor Faustus

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 772, [1, 1 blank]. Publisher's brown linen cloth, stamped in gilt to front and spine. Dustjacket printed in red and grey. Issued as part of the collected edition of Mann's works by Bermann-Fischer in Stockholm. A mimeographed typescript edition consisting of 50 copies was arranged to be "manufactured" in the United States by Mann's Swedish publisher, prior to publication abroad, in order to secure him copyright. Erste Ausgabe. 8°. 772, (1) S. Original-Leinen, Schutzumschlag. "Stockholmer Gesamtausgabe".

Fresh copy in the scarce jacket, faded to spine, with minor loss to crown and tips. Publisher's January 1946 query card loosely laid in. Exemplar im seltenen Schutzumschlag, Rücken gebräunt, mit geringem Verlust an Kopf und Ecken, ansonsten sehr guter Zustand.

A re-telling of the Faust legend and an allegory on the rise of Nazism. Mann wrote in 1948, "Of all my books, Doctor Faustus is the [one] closest to my heart."

[Wilpert/Gühring 100; Bürgin I, 76, A]