The Meeting at Telgte - Hardcover

THE MEETING AT TELGTE [First UK edition]

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Günter Grass (dustwrapper illustration) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published in 1981. The first English translation was published earlier in the same year by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the USA. Wraparound dustwrapper illustration and monochrome feather deign to title-page by the author Günter Grass. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. ***Near fine in blue-green paper over black cloth boards, with silver feather design to front board and silver titles to spine. Pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £5.95 net. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Tiny closed tear and nick to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. ***147 pages including a key to the Dramatis Personae and a list of literary societies provided by Leonard Forster to rear. 210 mm x 142 mm. ***'In 1647, as the Thirty Years' wAr was drawing to its close, a group of poets from all parts of germany gather at the pilgrimage town of Tegte, for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation: its language and literature. They meet and part in disarray, yet manage to discuss their manuscripts with all the liveliness of friendship and force of rivalry, against a background of brutality and anguish.' [Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb]. ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 4716x

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