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Mann, Thomas

Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man. Book of Childhood

Vienna/Leipzig/Munich, Rikola Verlag, 1922

30 x 24 cm. 65 pages. With six mounted original color lithographs by Oscar Laske. Original green half-leather binding with spine title, hand-engraved capitals, and antique parchment as the cover. The spine title and the cover title, formed from lines and arches, as well as the small decorative elements and lines, are hand-gilt, as is the gilt head edge. In original half-linen case. - First edition of the famous story in a beautiful, albeit unsigned, binding by Bauhaus bookbinder Otto Dorfner. With six original color lithographs by Oscar Laske. One of 400 numbered copies. Immaculately preserved. - Potempa D 12,1. - Bürgin, I,21. - Wilpert/Gühring 2/22.

2,500,- €

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