Le Tambour

GRASS (Günter). Le Tambour.
Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1961.

8vo (200 × 147 mm). 526 pp., (1) f. Publisher’s green linen binding, smooth spine with white lettering.

Rare first French edition, signed by the author.
The first volume of Grass’s Danzig Trilogy, Le Tambour became an immediate literary sensation and remains one of the defining post-war European novels. Its blend of magical realism, political allegory and historical reckoning established Grass as a major voice of twentieth-century literature and eventually contributed to his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A very attractive copy, with only the faintest wear to the head of the spine panel.