The Sirens of Titan.
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
The Sirens of Titan.
"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death": First Edition of Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1959.
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First paperback edition of the author’s second novel. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, all edges green. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Cover painting by Richard Powers.
The Sirens of Titan is the Hugo Award-nominated story of billionaire Malachi Constant, who persists against a Martian-invasion to be reunited with his estranged family. According to The Harvard Crimson, Vonnegut "put together the whole of The Sirens of Titanin one night He was at a party where someone told him he ought to write another novel. So they went into the next room where he just verbally pieced together this book from the things that were around in his mind."
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