Thomas Mann. First edition, later printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket designed by the great George Salter. No price listed on jacket, book-of-the-month club edition. Jacket has come chipping and small tears in it. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 510 pp. Translated from Germany by H. T. Low-Porter.
Thomas Mann was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and social critic. He received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.
Mann's classic retelling of the story of Dr. Faustus, the man who sold his soul to the devil for 24 years of health and genius.
