From the diary of a snail / translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

Grass, Günter (1927-2015)

ISBN 10: 0436187892 / ISBN 13: 9780436187896

Published by London : Secker and Warburg, 1974

About this Item

Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: [6], 310 pages; 1 illustration; 23 cm. Subjects: Grass, Günter 1927-2015 ; Translations into English; German fiction; Roman allemand; Authors, German 20th century; Authors, German 21st century; German fiction 20th century ; Translations into English. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 420192

Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the diary of a snail / translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
• Publisher: London : Secker and Warburg
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436187892
• ISBN 13: 9780436187896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First English edition. Jacket not price-clipped. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Jacket is marked, scored and worn. Jacket leading corners and spine ends are nicked. One centimetre tear on rear lower leading corner. Edges are creased. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block and a few pages are foxed. Bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. HCW

About the Author

Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.