Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.

First Edition of Gunter Grass' First book; Signed by Him

Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.

GRASS, Gunter.

$300.00

Item Number: 574

Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page.

German novelist Gunter Grass is the recipient 1965 Georg Büchner Prize, the 1999 Prince of Asturias Awards, and the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was bestowed on Grass for him "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." Die Vorzüge der Windhühner is Grass' first publication and marks the beginning of a highly influential career amongst the German-Swedish Academy and abroad.

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