Diana: Ein Roman

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In German. First Printing of the Kurt Wolff edition ( 'Jüngstes bis neuntes tausend' ). The novel was originally published in 1903 by Albert Langen. Diana was the first novel of the Goddesses, the three novels of the Duchess Von Assy (Die Göttinnen der drei Romane der Herzogin von Assy). You can see the covers in the photos. They are mostly clean, just a few little spots. There is some toning at the margins. The spine is also toned. The black lettering on both the front and spine is nicely bright. So is the red design on the front. There is a little wear at the spine ends, light rubbing and a few tears at the junctures there. The spine has a moderate forward lean, but the book is solidly bound from cover to cover. There are no cracks or spaces between any of the facing pages. There is one very thin space at the juncture between the front cover and the front end paper, going down just an inch and a half or so off the top edge. Both the front and rear covers are very tightly bound. The cover edges have a few mild dents, no rubbing, no rub-through. There are thin creases below the two top corners, one above the front bottom corner. There isn't any rubbing or rub-through at any the corners. The pages are exceptionally clean. I saw only a couple of little spots of soiling. The pages are toned, but uniformly. There is some very mild creasing, not much. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. 'Luiz Heinrich Mann, best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his socio-political novels. From 1930 until 1933, he was president of the fine poetry division of the Prussian Academy of Arts. His fierce criticism of the growing Fascism and Nazism forced him to flee Germany after the Nazis came to power during 1933. He was the elder brother of writer Thomas Mann. Mann's essay on Émile Zola and the novel Der Untertan earned him much respect during the Weimar Republic, since they satirized Imperial German society. Later, in 1930, his book Professor Unrat was freely adapted into the movie Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script, and Josef von Sternberg was the director. Mann wanted his paramour, the actress Trude Hesterberg, to play the main female part as the actress Lola Lola (named Rosa Fröhlich in the novel), but Marlene Dietrich was given the part, her first sound role. Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities during 1932, Mann was a signatory to the Urgent Call for Unity, asking the voters to reject the Nazis. Einstein and Mann had previously co-authored a letter during 1931 condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Milan ?ufflay. The Nazis burnt Heinrich Mann's books as 'contrary to the German spirit' during the infamous book burning of May 10, 1933, which was instigated by the then Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.'. N° de ref. del artículo 005354

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