Joseph and His Brothers.

First American edition of Mann's first novel in his acclaimed tetralogy. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Carl H. Pforzheimer thankfully for a beautiful summer day in his wonderful estate. 4. VII. 35 Thomas Mann." The recipient, Carl H. Pforzheimer was a founder of the American Stock Exchange and amassed a large fortune on Wall Street as a specialist in Standard Oil stock. He was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts and built the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, which contained nearly 25,000 items and is now housed in the New York Public Library. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping to the extremities. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter.  Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.