VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969.

8vo. Original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red, and black (spine slanted, hinges loose, some fading to extremities, corners lightly bumped); in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some creasing along folds, toned).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the front fly-leaf. Vonnegut's scathing anti-war classic was based on his own experiences as a POW who survived the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945.