Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, 1963.
Price: US$41.25 + shipping
Description: 10mo; G-; blue spine with black and pink text; missing jacket; ex-library; cloth has modest damp staining to tail edge; tape to head and tail edges; rear head edge have some dented wear; chips to spine corners; worn edges; cocked spine; text block edges show mild tone; deckled fore edge; few stains to interior pages; ex-library adhesive remnants to rear endpaper; mild stains to fep; some ex-library markings inside; pp 231. 1343352. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine of book has heavy rubbing, tape ghost to rear cover. Text very good+.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963.
Price: US$97.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's ink stamp, bottom, exterior pages. Crease mark to back cover. Light edge wear. Dust jacket in brodart, small chips missing from top and bottom spine.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1963.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 1963, Holt, Rinehart & Winson, Book Club Edition, hardcover with dust jacket, DJ spine is tanned with small tears, owner's names and dates on endpapers, a novel, 231 pages
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book club edition, in jacket featuring the same cover art as the first. Gutter code 'E8' at page 233. Blue boards with black and orange titling and decoration, very good with light edgewear, lightly bumped spine head. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar, scuffed, toned, with moderate edgewear, including chipping around spine head. Yellow topstain. Textblock edges sparsely foxed. Pages else clean, interior bright and unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover, 8vo. Book Club Edition. 233 pp. Blue boards. Illustrated DJ. Gutter code 'E8' at page 2. No defects of note.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Vonnegut, Kurt CAT'S CRADLE Collector's Clamshell Case. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1963.[Book Date]. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in rich black Nuba® with a 'sculpted design [after the book's distinct illustrated wrapper] on the side. Velour finished interior. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included. Photographs Upon Request.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$832.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 233. green & Blue cloth (a very good copy with light foxing to endpapers). dw (light foxing, price clipped & edges chipped). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 233 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, collectible gem! A wonderful copy and dust jacket. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally or mildly shelf worn. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.. Cat's Cradle.. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A breathtakingly Fine copy in pale green cloth, pale blue textured paper covered front board, pastel green topstain flawless, in a Near Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped, with a couple of very tiny nicks to spine-tips. Text and endpapers immaculate, unread. 233pp. Q16669
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr.. CATS CRADLE. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963), 1963.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First State copy of the hugely popular late authors fifth book. But for a slight spine slant, a near fine example in its original pictorial dust jacket which would be quite fine but for an unfortunate half-inch triangular chip on its verso and a sliver of a chip on the spine crown. Signed on the front fee endpaper (with his usual flourish, and with what he calls the asshole) just above an orange one inch square printed stamp.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr.. CAT'S CRADLE. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963), 1963.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First State copy of the hugely popular late author's fifth book. But for a slight spine slant, a near fine example in its original pictorial dust jacket which would be quite fine but for an unfortunate half-inch triangular chip on its verso and a sliver of a chip on the spine crown. Signed on the front fee endpaper (with his usual flourish, and with what he calls the 'asshole') just above an orange one inch square printed stamp.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.