Author: GRASS, GüNTER
Title: The Flounder
Description: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First US Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0151314861. Stated first (U.S.) edition. In this highly original novel, Günter Grass tells a tale of a talking fish, caught in the Stone Age, and the fisherman who caught it. Both fish and fisherman are immortal. This work rendered into English from the German by Ralph Manheim, who provides a prefatory note. --- Bound in full navy cloth-covered boards w/blindstamped flounder image to covers, titling stamped in silver on spine. Jacket with wrap-around flounder/ear artwork. --- With smudges to fore-edge of textblock and exposure to dampness has caused minor rippling to some leaves, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Unclipped jacket with small tears and curling to edges but remaining bright and intact and protected in clear removable mylar wrapper. ; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xii, 547 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0151314861 >>Fiction >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize