Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Grass, Günter; translated by Ralph Manheim

ISBN 10: 0151396000 / ISBN 13: 9780151396009

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1982

About this Item

An attractive first American edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust jacket, signed by author Günter Grass directly on the title page. Scarce to find signed; Nobel Laureate Günter Grass targets issues the contentious 1980 German elections bring to his imagination. He chronicles the "zany" travels and travails of a couple on vacation in Asia, all the while being burdened by the political climate back home between Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democrats and the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss, the opposition Christian Democrat ; 8vo; [viii], 136 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 19658

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151396000
• ISBN 13: 9780151396009
• Binding: 1/4 Cloth
• Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::Novels
  • Awarded Authors::Nobel Prize
  • First Editions
  • Signed First Editions
  • Author Collections::Grass, Günter
  • By Year Of Issue::1980s
  • Exhibitions::ILAB Olympia Fair London 2015

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Synopsis

A German couple vacationing in Asia, worry about the upcoming elections at home and are unable to decide whether or not to have a child

About the Author

GNTER GRASS was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927. He is the widely acclaimed author of numerous books, including The Tin Drum, My Century, Crabwalk, and Peeling the Onion. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.