Das Vorbild: Roman

Very Good+: shows several small coffee stains to the fore-edge and some faint smudges and soilings to the bottom edge of the text block; a former owner's name inscribed in ink and dated at the title page; clippings of the publisher's blurbs from the inside DJ flaps have been placed within an envelope affixed to the rear free endpaper; shows very little wear at all but the binding leans very slightly while remaining secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A carefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the noted imperfections only. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.1 x 5.35 x 1.75 inches). Language: German. Weight: 21.2 ounces. Blue cloth over boards with black titles on a white pastedown plate at the backstrip. First published in 1973; this is one of the1st 100 thousand copies . Hardcover: Lacks DJ. Siegfried Lenz (1926 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pages.…