The Tin Drum

True first is the German Luchterhand 1959. First in English is 1962, with the New York (Pantheon) first American and the London (Secker & Warburg) first British both dated 1962 in Manheim's translation; the sources consulted establish no firm month-level precedence between them, so identify by the imprint on the title and copyright pages rather than by date. A few dealers catalogue the Pantheon as 1963; the copyright page and the majority of first-printing copies are 1962, so treat a 1963 date as a later state.