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  “People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore": Review Copy of the First Edition of Slaughterhouse-Five; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut with a Drawing of a Self-Caricature

  VONNEGUT, Kurt.

  Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.

  New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

  First edition, review copy with the original publisher's slip laid in of Vonnegut's masterpiece, named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Kurt Vonnegut with a drawing of a self-caricature on the half-title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket with a unique jacket that has been mistriked bearing a duplicate look on the verso. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. A unique example, one of the nicest we have seen.

  Price: $12,500.00     Item Number: 147938

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  "And so it goes...": First Edition of Slaughterhouse-Five; Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut

  VONNEGUT, Kurt.

  Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.

  New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

  First edition, second printing of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For David and Loni - Nice, nice, very nice, so many different people in the same device. Kurt Vonnegut. Barnstable, Mass. August 14, 1969." David Hayman was the Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light chipping. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Accompanied by an article from the New York Times on Kurt Vonnegut dated October 25, 1970 laid in at the rear. An exceptional association.

  Price: $4,800.00     Item Number: 149825

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