Mann, Thomas. Royal Highness: A Novel of German Court Life. Translated by A. Cecil Curtis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st American edition. Black cloth with red lettering and border; no dust jacket; head of spine frayed; corners bumped and worn; small tear at front joint; decorated endpapers; former owner's bookplate on pastedown; front hinge weak; text clean.

Card signed by Mann and addressed to former owner laid in. The card is dated November 14, 1929, and in German reads (translated): " thank you very much for the congratulations you gave me on the occasion of the Nobel Prize."