Mutter Marie. Roman - Heinrich Mann Berlin/Wien/Leipzig: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1927. 246, [2] pages. 18.1cm x 11.4cm. Original publisher's full purple cloth (OLeinen) with gilt lettering on the spine and facsimile signature in gilt on the front board, and dark grey top edge. No dust jacket. First edition of Heinrich Mann's social drama novel, bearing a significant signed presentation inscription from the author to the prominent French biographer, translator, and literary mediator Léon Bazalgette. This First Edition was published simultaneously as Volume 9 of the author's uniform „Gesammelte Werke“ (Collected Works) series, which constitutes the true first printing of the novel. Handwritten in ink by the author on the half-title page, the inscription reads: „À Léon Bazalgette avec l’amical souvenir de Heinrich Mann, Paris 1927“ (To Léon Bazalgette with the friendly remembrance of Heinrich Mann, Paris 1927). A highly important association copy connecting two monumental figures of early 20th-century European literary exchange. The recipient, Léon Bazalgette (1873–1929), was a renowned French biographer, literary critic, and translator, widely famous for introducing Walt Whitman (translating Leaves of Grass) and Henry David Thoreau to the French public. As a dedicated internationalist and socialist, Bazalgette belonged to the close pacifist literary circles in Europe alongside Romain Rolland and Stefan Zweig. Heinrich Mann—already a towering intellectual figure in Germany who would later flee to France as a prominent anti-fascist émigré in 1933—frequently stayed in Paris during the late 1920s. This beautifully preserved presentation copy stands as a tangible testament to the cross-border francophile connections that defined Heinrich Mann’s life and artistic environment. Very little rubbing, bumping, and wear to the boards and spine. Pencil markings on the back pastedown endpaper. Some offsetting of the inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. Very little browning and spotting throughout. The text is clear, the paper is crisp, the purple cover and spine fresh, and the binding is solid. Overall, a fantastic copy in very good condition.