This is “VERSUCHUNG IN INDIEN / DER FALL WARREN HASTINGS ROMAN / DAS LETZTE GROFE WERK DES DICHTERS,” by Erich Brautlacht, a retired-library-item hardcover book with dustjacket. It was published by Paul Zsolnay Verlag, runs 299 pages in length, and is a retired library item and the usual stickers of markings of former ownership... Erich Brautlacht was a German jurist and writer. In addition to his legal activities, he wrote humorous stories and novels, often idyllic in nature, from his Lower Rhine home.