Author: GRASS, GüNTER
Title: The Meeting at Telgte (Franklin Library First Edition Society Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1981. First Edition. Leather. A first American edition of a novel by Günter Grass which is set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648, a disaster for Germany. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim, an afterword and prefatory note by Leonard Forster and illustrations by Frederick Schneider. This deluxe Franklin Library edition in publisher's First Edition Society series, with Franklin Library "Notes from the Editors" booklet about this work laid in. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Text presented on quality papers. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy with a little sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, newish and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (16), 199 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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