Grass (Günter) Die Blechtrommel, first edition, signed by the author on title, original cloth, slight spotting to covers, later issue dust-jacket (with reviews to flaps) with very short tear to lower panel, else fine, 8vo, Darmstadt etc., 1959.

⁂ A fine copy of the author's magnum opus, his first novel and widely regarded as one of the most important German novels of the 20th century. This was the first work of his Danzig Trilogy and was made into a film in 1979, which won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar (perhaps in this case "Oskar" would be more appropriate) for Best Foreign Language Film. Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999. A loosely inserted sticker states that this copy was signed by Grass on 15th April 2005 at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck.