Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st UK Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo ; vi, 280, [2] pages
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1952, London

[Book #34167]

An attractive First British Edition/First Printing, Bürgin 129. Near Fine condition with light foxing to edges in alike, lightly rubbed dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Thomas Mann directly on the title page;

One of Thomas Mann's most cherished works, The Holy Sinner, is the ebullient retelling of the medieval legend of Pope Gregory, reviewing the notions of original sin, evil, and transcendence. Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. Translated from the original German, "Der Erwählte" by H. T. Lowe-Porter; Signed by Author