Thomas Mann - Death in Venice - First Edition 1928 - Death in Venice - with SIGNATURE and DATE from Mann

A first edition, first printing of �Death in Venice� published by Martin Secker in 1928. A very good book with bookplate to the front pastedown SIGNED �Thomas Mann/London/17th May 1949� (signed at a PEN meeting in Knightsbridge). Spine sunned with some spotting. Wear to the corners. �Der Tod in Venedig�, Berlin 1912 - an English translation by Kenneth Burke was published in New York in 1924. A the first British appearance of Mann�s disturbing, mythic tale of longing in which an author fixates on a teenaged boy.