New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. First Edition. 589pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Bright boards, crisp leaves; a minor bump on the fornt board and a previous owner's name written in pencil on the free end paper.

Author's first novel and one of the most highly acclaimed novels of post-war Germany. Grass was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature and "The Tin Drum" was filmed in 1979 and won an Academy Award for best foreign film.