True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (�14.99). Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Jacket has very minor patchy edge/shelf wear, minor fading to spine and very minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners. Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd very small mark and very minor pushing to head/tail of spine. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Title: The Call of The Toad : First printing
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0436200643
ISBN 13: 9780436200649
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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The Call of the Toad

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The author of The Tin Drum is back in Danzig with The Call of the Toad, a poignant, irreverent, funny novel about two people who find adventure in love and business. The love is late middle-aged; the business is the cemetery business. The couple's vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. He, the German, will provide not only the bodies but cash and know-how; she, the Pole, will provide the human warmth and political fervor. Gunter Grass tells a tale of capitalism taken to absurd extremes as he skewers both the German and the Polish characters, past, present, and future - with the style, tenderness, and baroque inventiveness that have made him famous.

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