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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First One-Volume Edition. Very Good. First one-volume edition. Signed by Thomas Mann on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original green cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with some nibbling at the top of the spine, spine toned. Front inner hinge started and tender, foxing to endsheets and textblock edge. A monumental novel and a towering literary achievement of the 20th century.

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.