The Siege of Trencher's Farm (First UK Edition, Signed) by Gordon D. Williams - 1969

London: Secker and Warburg, 1962. The uncorrected proof of the first British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition showing only light wear. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. When Günter Grass published "The Tin Drum" in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction. Within the pages of this, his first novel, Grass recreated the lost world from which his creativity sprang, Danzig, his home town, as he remembered it from the years of his infancy before the catastrophe of war. Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them. At the same time the novel breaks the bounds of realism by having as its protagonist and narrator an infernal… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very Good overall with dust jackets. First volume has name on ffep, spine pane a bit darkened, small stains to front panel, price-clipped. Second volume jacket lightly foxed. Third volume has name on ffep, some mottling to cloth, darkened spine panel, and wear to jacket. An attractive set of the Austrian writer's unfinished masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in the English language. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1962. The uncorrected proof of the first British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition showing only light wear. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. When Günter Grass published "The Tin Drum" in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction. Within the pages of this, his first novel, Grass recreated the lost world from which his creativity sprang, Danzig, his home town, as he remembered it from the years of his infancy before the catastrophe of war. Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them. At the same time the novel breaks the bounds of realism by having as its protagonist and narrator an infernal… Read More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very Good overall with dust jackets. First volume has name on ffep, spine pane a bit darkened, small stains to front panel, price-clipped. Second volume jacket lightly foxed. Third volume has name on ffep, some mottling to cloth, darkened spine panel, and wear to jacket. An attractive set of the Austrian writer's unfinished masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in the English language. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.