The Tin Drum

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

Die Blechtrommel first published in Germany 1959 Copyright © Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH, 1959

This translation first published in the U.S.A. 1961 Published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1962

Translation Copyright © Pantheon Books, 1961, 1962

Published in Penguin Books 1965

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Monotype Times

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published