Death in Venice in The Dial Magazine
Thomas Mann
Camden, 1924
 
First English language appearance of this masterful story - preceding both the U.S. and U.K. book editions. March, April, May 1924 volumes of The Dial Magazine. Each volume in fine condition. 
 
"Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. 'It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom,' Mann wrote. 'But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity.'"