VONNEGUT, KURT. 1922-2007. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. [New York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, [1969]. 8vo. Publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red, and black, publisher's printed dust jacket. A bit of sunning to cloth edges. Dust jacket spine lightly toned, minor chipping at spine ends. Housed in custom marbled turquoise cloth clamshell box. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with 'First Printing' on copyright page, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with publisher's code '0369' printed on inside rear flap, WITH BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY KURT VONNEGUT loosely inserted. 'A masterpiece, in which Vonnegut penetrated to the heart of the issues developed in his earlier absurdist fabulations. A key work of modern SF' (Barron). Barron, Anatomy of Wonder (2004), II-1204; Currey, p. 504; Pieratt, Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AH1. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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