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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Mother Night. Jonathan Cape, London, 1968.

Price: US$292.40 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ex school library copy, usual library markings, first blank page neatly removed, slight lean, wrapper fresh & bright with shading mark at base where library label has been removed, original price sticker removal mark to front inner flap, some small marks to rear blank page, photos available on request.

Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom

Vonnegut, Kurt. MOTHER NIGHT. Jonathan Cape, London, 1968.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First British edition. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AD6. Lower corner tips very lightly brised, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with clipped price and remnant of small price sticker on front flap. An uncommon edition of this book. (#102842)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night. Jonathan Cape, London, 1968.

Price: US$584.80 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: FIRST UK EDITION. The crisp bright wrapper is almost fine. It has been price clipped with a reprice publishers sticker applied. The book is excellent with the bright mustard top stain. No foxing or previous owner's ink. It is a very near fine copy.  The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The story of the novel is narrated by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. A rare title to find in this superb condition. 

Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom

Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First UK edition, first printing. Signed by Vonnegut with self-caricature on half-title page. Publisher's blue cloth, with spine stamped in gilt; in its original pictorial dust jacket, with yellow, blue, red, and white illustrations to panels and spine, designed by Peter Gibberd. About fine, with a hint of soiling to text block edges and very light toning to head of spine; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to spine, a touch of spotting to panels, and very mild rubbing to spine ends. Overall, a lovely and crisp copy. Housed in a black custom folding box. Pieratt and Klinkowitz AD6. Mother Night tells the story of Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American who was living in Germany during World War II and imprisoned in Israel, awaiting trial for war crimes. Throughout the novel, Vonnegut examines Campbell's relative guilt and cautions the reader that "we are what we pretend to be." Notably, the book is one of Vonnegut's darker stories.

Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.