MANN, THOMAS — Death in Venice

Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1972. Hardcover. A handsome reprint edition in slipcase of Thomas Mann's famed novella. Rendered into English from the German by Kenneth Burke, with an introduction by Erich Heller. With woodcut illustrations by Felix Hoffmann. Sandglass leaflet laid in (Avon, no. III: 37). --- Elegantly printed on laid papers, and bound using the Japanese fold technique (sometimes called the French fold, in which the fore-edges of the pages are not severed by the knife from adjoining leaves and all printing is on the outsides of these uncut leaves). Covers in green, yellow and gold marbled papers, backed in olive leatherette and titling gilt-stamped on green spine block. Volume housed in olive paper-covered slipcase. --- An about-Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked. Slipcase with light scratching and minor sunning; is otherwise structurally sound.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); [6], 5-107 pages. Fine .