The Tin Drum - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Author: Grass, Günter
Title: The Tin Drum - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, c1962.

Description: An attractive first printing of the first American edition in near fine condition, lightly sunned in dust-jacket with minor tanning to spine. Signed by author Grass on the half-title page.

Grass' famous autbiography of Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer, thirty years old, detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. It is taken down with the aid of his tin drum - the chosen symbol of his way of life - which helps him to remember his checkered past. Translated by Ralph Manheim; 8vo; [1-14], 15-591, [1] pages.

Seller ID: 26679

Subject: ABAA-VBF, Author Collections, Awarded Authors, By Year Of Issue, Fiction, First Editions, Signed First Editions

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