VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press. 1969. 8vo. Second impression. Vonnegut’s magnum opus, perhaps the ultimate anti-war novel. Based on his own experiences, Vonnegut describes himself as a “fourth-generation German American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American Infantry Scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of the Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe’, a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.” and the novel itself, “this is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from peace.”
A very good book, the blue cloth clean, the gilt a little dulled at the spine, the spine tips gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. Internally fine, clean and bright throughout without inscriptions, stamps, or foxing. The first-state dust jacket unclipped ($5.95) and codes ‘0821’ and ‘0369’ to front and rear flaps. Spine panel darkened, some chips to the head and tail with a few other small nicks. Faint water stain to the front panel towards fore-edge, not seeping to the front flap or boards. Presentable in mylar.
VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press. 1969. 8vo. Second impression. Vonnegut’s magnum opus, perhaps the ultimate anti-war novel. Based on his own experiences, Vonnegut describes himself as a “fourth-generation German American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American Infantry Scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of the Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe’, a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.” and the novel itself, “this is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from peace.”
A very good book, the blue cloth clean, the gilt a little dulled at the spine, the spine tips gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. Internally fine, clean and bright throughout without inscriptions, stamps, or foxing. The first-state dust jacket unclipped ($5.95) and codes ‘0821’ and ‘0369’ to front and rear flaps. Spine panel darkened, some chips to the head and tail with a few other small nicks. Faint water stain to the front panel towards fore-edge, not seeping to the front flap or boards. Presentable in mylar.
VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press. 1969. 8vo. Second impression. Vonnegut’s magnum opus, perhaps the ultimate anti-war novel. Based on his own experiences, Vonnegut describes himself as a “fourth-generation German American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American Infantry Scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of the Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe’, a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale.” and the novel itself, “this is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from peace.”
A very good book, the blue cloth clean, the gilt a little dulled at the spine, the spine tips gently pushed, but the binding tight and square. Internally fine, clean and bright throughout without inscriptions, stamps, or foxing. The first-state dust jacket unclipped ($5.95) and codes ‘0821’ and ‘0369’ to front and rear flaps. Spine panel darkened, some chips to the head and tail with a few other small nicks. Faint water stain to the front panel towards fore-edge, not seeping to the front flap or boards. Presentable in mylar.