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One of 200 numbered sets printed on Worthy Aurelian paper and signed by Thomas Mann. Bound in vellum-backed striped paper boards. The boards are edge-rubbed with some paper loss, mostly at the fore-corners; a couple of minor blemishes to the text block, else unmarked.

A landmark of modern literature, The Magic Mountain unfolds in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe on the eve of World War I.