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GRASS GUNTER: (1927-2015) German novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1999. Signed 4 x 6 photograph of Grass in a head and shoulders pose smoking a cigarette. Photograph by Studio Rama of Berlin and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed by the writer with his name alone to the image. EX

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GRASS GUNTER: (1927-2015) German novelist, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1999. Signed 4 x 6 photograph of Grass in a head and shoulders pose smoking a cigarette. Photograph by Studio Rama of Berlin and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed by the writer with his name alone to the image. EX

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