Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [xii], 207, [3] pages
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, New York
ISBN: 0394563751

[Book #21650]

First American Edition/First Printing in Fine, seemingly unread condition, in Near Fine dust-jacket, little bleeding from spine cloth. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century ;

The last book from Germany's Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll. Translated by David McLintock from the original German publication, Frauen vor Flusslandschaft. The powerful and angry novel about the greedy quest for influence, power, and money in the inner circles of government and industry, and its effects on the men and women involved