Günter Grass — Mein Jahrhundert

Gottingen, Germany, Steidl Verlag, 1999. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An excellent copy in tall, heavy, quarto hardcover format, brilliant red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct white lettering over label at head of spine. This is the Illustrierte Ausgabe, mit Aquarellen, texts being wholly in German. Long split to illustrated paper dust wrapper, tape-repaired neatly. Brilliant interior, clean, unmarked, tightly bound. The watercolors are quite lovely and evocative. Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) "was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature," according to his Wikipedia entry, but also, it should be pointed out, a member of the Nazi Waffenkorps and flew for its airforce. Born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), he was drafted into the military at age 17 and served until war's end from late 1944 before being captured and turned into a P.O.W. and later trained as a stonemason before he began to write fiction. 409 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,