The Tin Drum; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover illustrated in black, lettered in gilt. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 592 pages. 22 x 15 cm. This work, his first novel has been translated into all major European languages, and its meaning implies we are all moral hunchbacks. Book jacket drawing by Gunter Grass. Glossary. Slightest of nicks at spine head and foot.