JOSEPH THE PROVIDER

Joseph the Provider is the fourth book in Mann's four-part series Joseph and His Brothers, which Mann wrote over 16 years and completed in 1942. He re-tells the stories in Genesis, chapters 27-50, putting them in historical context. Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, considered it his greatest work.

This book was first published in Sweden (in German) in 1943.

In 1944, it was published in English, in the US, by Knopf. This is a first printing of that English edition.

It is 416 pages + notes.

The cover is plain black with a gold feather, and there is gold lettering on the spine. It was printed in accordance with the war-time codes on paper and printing, so it's just a nice plain book. The pages have darkened a little, but there are no marks of any kind in it or on it.

Note: I also have a leather-bound copy of Mann's The Magic Mountain listed here, as well as a first edition of The Holy Sinner, and a 1957 copy of The Beloved Returns (Lotte in Weimar).