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Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A very good book with a 2" coffee stain, bottom inside front cover at spine. Text fine.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut. Facsimile Dust Jacket ONLY Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: For sale is a brand new facsimile (reproduction) dust jacket for the 1st Edition of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. No book is included in this listing, however we may have the original book available for sale in our store under a different listing. Please view our other facsimile dust jackets being offered for sale. All jackets come in a brand new brodart mylar protective sleeve. We offer the highest quality and least expensive facsimile (reproduction) dust jackets currently available anywhere. Our jackets are beautifully crafted by a graphic design expert. These dust jackets are offered for research, archival, and preservation purposes. All jackets are labeled as facsimiles on the front or rear flap. Funding to be used for future acquisition and preservation of dust jacket art. Please check back often, as we plan on adding new jackets weekly.
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1969. Book Club Edition with Gutter Code, on page 187, "40 K", signifying that it was printed in the first week of October, 1969. [The first printing of the trade edition was released March 31, 1969.] Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight but canted, with deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind. The Binding is blue cloth, color faded from the original bright blue, with faded gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked black endpapers, and corners square but worn. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2" [same as the trade edition]. 190 pages. [The trade edition has 186 pages, but chapter 1 begins on page 1, while here it begins on page 7.] A sort-of science fiction, anti-war, historical fiction novel, the central event of which was the horrific fire bombing of Dresden, Germany during WW2, which the author witnessed as a prisoner of war.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$47.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No dustjacket. ; SFBC Catalog ID: 1923. Gutter code K20 on pg 190. ; 190 pages
Seller: Time Traveler Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Seventh printing, 1969. Dust jacket has a stain on the front panel & moderate/heavy aging, but shows minimal edgewear, is not price-clipped & is covered in a new protective mylar sleeve. Tanned pages. Otherwise clean & crisp for its age. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Seller: Book Trader Cafe, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five Or the Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, EB, 1969.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Delacorte Press, New York. 1969. 186 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (closed tear present to the front flap of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (tape residue present to the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the worlds great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barbers son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming "unstuck in time. " Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own eras uncertainties. ; 1.03 x 8.04 x 5.34 Inches; 224 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice early copy of this classic in blue boards with gilt to signature on front board and gilt, black and red to type on spine. Just a few shallow marks to cloth. Sharp corners, clean interior and tight binding. In brand new high quality facsimile jacket. 6th Printing
Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Delacorte Press, a Seymour Lawrence Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1969. "Sixth Printing, June 1969" (stated) of the First Edition. The first printing came out on March 31, 1969. Near Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. This is a probable ex-library book, but the only indications are "cop. 5" in ink on the dedication page, rear free endpaper is a cancel, and tape marks on the boards. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight but somewhat canted, with no markings other than the one just mentioned. The Binding is full turquoise cloth, showing discoloration at top and bottom of boards, with bright gilt facsimile signature of the author to the front board, bright gilt, red and black title, etc., to spine, black endpapers, tape marks to boards, and corners square but slightly bumped. The Dust Jacket is bright, fully intact and encased in a mylar jacket with the original price ($5.95) intact on the front flap, residual tape marks on the edges of the flaps and an inked in name of an unrelated novel on the front flap. See photos. 186 + i pages. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". A semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel, the title of which refers to a building in which American prisoners of war were located during the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, during World War 2. It was nominated for best-novel for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. It has been banned repeatedly from public school curricula, and is among the top 100 most banned books in America according to the Americaan Library Association.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Turquoise cloth, with gilt, red, and black spine lettering and gilt facsimile signature on front cover. Black end papers. 186 pages. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Dust-jacket (with "$5.95" price intact, and "0369" on rear flap), designed by Paul Bacon, is lightly toned, chipped at spine ends and corners, and has closed tears at both ends of front flap fold. Some sticker remains over the printed price on the top corner of the front flap. Stated "Third printing, May 1969" on the copyright page.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE Custom Clamshell Case Only. Delacorte, New York, 1969.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Elegant Custom Clamshell Case For The First Edition. [Not A Book] Elegant Black Nuba® with Blue cloth, Gilt-Stamped, the dustwrapper's graphics inspiration for the case's embossed Hand-Sculpted cover decor. A beautiful & unique protective TBCL Clamshell Case for the first edition of this extraordinary book. The Book NOT included. Every TBCL case is finished in a selection fine 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 Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for dozens of generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. Delacorte, New York, 1969.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Seventh Printing, July, 1969. Unclipped jacket in mylar. No chips. 1/4 inch tear at bottom of front cover. Light tanning at top edge of flaps. Stated Seventh Printing. 0369 is printed at the bottom of the back flap. No markings. Beautiful condition.
Seller: Bookends, Hutchinson, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$231.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6th printing, released the same year as the first printing. Spots on front jacket panel, two of which appear lightly on front board, jacket toned with minor loss from spine head and foot, jacket price clipped. 1969 Hard Cover. 186 pp. 8vo. The anti-war story of Billy Pilgrim during the fire bombing of Dresden, in Vonnegut's delightfully peculiar style of prose, which mixes bits of science fiction with authentic historical narrative. Vonnegut's most recognized work, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.. Slaughterhouse Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: 186p, cloth, DW, DW has a 4" circulart stain on the front, minor discoloration of the DW spine, slight edgewear in mylar, photos available on request, VG+/VG-
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Seventh Printing stated, July 1969, with same dust jacket as First Printing, price of $5.95 and code 03/69 rear flap. Near Fine, small top corner bumps, in Near Fine dust jacket, small creases at top corners, spine toned from sun. A handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: third printing, 1969. the first of vonnegut's books to become a bestseller. a semi-autobiographical sci-fi anti-war novel following billy pilgrim. billy is captured by the germans while serving as a chaplain's assistant during world war ii. he starts to experience time travel and is eventually abducted by aliens. the non-chronological tale unfolds as more of billy'd life on earth is revealed. in a 1969 review the new york times stated, "you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner." new york: delacorte press. 8.4 x 5.75". 186 pages. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: some toning to spine, front, and rear boards. very good plus. jacket condition: minor soiling to front. unclipped ($5.95). very good plus.
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, 1969.
Price: US$385.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VONNEGUT, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade. New York: Delacorte Press. 1969. 8vo. Second impression. Vonneguts 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.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slaughterhouse-Five or The Childrens Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Delacorte Press, New York, 1st Edition, Second Printing, April 1969, teal blue publishers cloth with original dust jacket, 8.5 x 6, 8vo. In good condition. First-state jacket, with price ($5.95) intact on front flap and "0369" on rear flap. A near fine copy in a good jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Age-toning to jacket with minor chipping to front right bottom coroner and tail of spine. Head of spine jacket exhibiting slight loss. Light tan spots to bottom edge at Vonneguts name on front cover. Foxing and light toning to edges of flaps. Light foxing to end papers in front and rear. Interior lightly toned with instances of scattered foxing. Does not affect text. Free of ownership or markings. Blue cloth toned at edges and spine. Light scuffing to surface of cloth. Gilt finishing bright and clean. Overall a good and clean copy! Please see photos. First edition, second printing April 1969. The author's most notable novel -- about the fire bombing of Dresden.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Delacorte Press. A Seymour Lawrence Book. New York. 1969. 186 pages. First edition, sixth printing. Blue panels are bright and clean; as are endpapers. Minimal pushing at tips. Three small specks on page deck; faint light foxing on top page edges. Original DJ with $5.95 price intact and 0369 code on flap. DJ is miraculously without any chips. This DJ is the exact same DJ on the first printing; and this DJ being fine is quite valuable for marrying/upgrading purposes; to a first printing. Fine DJs of this title are few and far-between; hence priced accordingly. A bright, tight and clean early printing of the classic; in a remarkably fine DJ that is identical to the first printing DJ.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
VONNEGUT Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 186 pp. Good in the original turquoise cloth boards, with a good dust jacket that has heavy tanning to all sides. The boards have a slight outward bow and tanning around the edges extending an inch-and-a-half inward from the top and side. This stated "First Printing" has the $5.95 price with the corresponding 0369 code on the lower back flap.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 186pp, cloth. Vonnegut's most celebrated novel. Some scattered light pencil marginalia; tips a trifle bumped; fine in a marked dust jacket, spine sunned a shade, and with a touch of wear to spine ends.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Near Fine with narrow sunnign to cloth along the bottom edge and toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning and edge wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, JR., Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1969.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1969. First Edition. 186pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Front board has what appears to be a stain; pencil mark on flyleaf. The unclipped wrapper has the usual heavy discoloration, else fine. Perhaps Vonnegut's best-known novel, Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim's experience as an American soldier in Europe during World War II. A combination of historic and science fiction, the plot centers on the Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany in 1945, an event Vonnegut experienced himself. "It sounds crazy. It sounds like a fantastic last-ditch effort to make sense of a lunatic universe. But there is so much more to this book. It is very tough and very funny; it is sad and delightful; and it works". The New York Times.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five 1ST Edition. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A sharp copy of the First Printing in a bright and attractive jacket with some mild dustiness. A Collector's Copy! ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Jacket with light toning, a bit more on the spine, light edge wear. Small pale brown spotting to the front panel. rubbing to the spine seam. Previous owner embossed stamp on the second front end paper.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. If not for a slightly toned jacket spine, both the volume and jacket are fine.
Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. [xii], 186, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, toned with a small dampstain to front panel, spine panel darkened, offsetting to front flap from a laid in sheet of paper.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good+ copy of the book in like dust jacket. Slight rubbing at the base of the spine, a faint splash to the closed text block, previous owner's name on the first blank and half-title. Dust jacket with a faint splash on the front panel and a small bit of white paint at the heel of the spine. Kurt Vonnegut's masterful satire about the bombing of Dresden and the strange time traveling experiences of Billy Pilgrim. The book was nominated for both a Hugo and Nebula Award the year it was released and was ranked 18th by Modern Library on its list of the 100 best books of the century. Slaughterhouse Five was partly autobiographical, as Vonnegut served in the army and witnessed the bombing firsthand during World War II. Though controversial around its release due to its depictions of sex, the novel grew to be quite popular and was adapted into a film in 1972, which would win the Prix de Jury at the Cannes Film Festival later that year. ".Slaughterhouse Five is an extraordinary success. It is a book we need to read, and to reread. It has the same virtues as Vonnegut's best previous work. It is funny, compassionate and wise. Kurt Vonnegut Jr is a true artist." (Contemporary New York Times Review). Very Good + in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five Or the Children's Crusade. Delacorte Press, EB, 1969.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Delacorte Press, New York. 1969. 186 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the worlds great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barbers son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming "unstuck in time. "; 1.03 x 8.04 x 5.34 Inches; 224 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing stated. Price of $5.95 intact, and date code 0369 at bottom of back flap. A lovely copy of this Vonnegut classic, Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, the spine of the jacket ever-so-lightly toned, a prior owner name 2nd front end page. Basis for the 1972 George Roy Hill film. A quite lovely copy ! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$4579.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's best-known novel. Though infused with science fiction elements, the plot centres on the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, which Vonnegut himself experienced. "Amid the disenchantment surrounding the Vietnam War, this tale of the innocent but decidedly unheroic World War II GI, Billy Pilgrim, hit a nerve and soared to the top of the sales lists. Approaching fifty years of age, Vonnegut became a household name, a rumpled, cigarette-wielding prophet to the younger generation" (ANB). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red, and black, facsimile signature stamped on front cover in gilt, black endpapers. With dust jacket by Paul Bacon. Mild toning to spine, faint foxing on edges, contents clean; sharp, unclipped jacket with occasional trace of toning, still remarkably bright: a near-fine copy in fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, OR THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$4944.44 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges. 2 inch open tear at bottom of front flap fold.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by Kurt Vonnegut on a publisher's tipped in page. A beautiful dustjacket that is rich in color with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Vonnegut First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade. Vonnegut, 1969.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vonnegut / 1969 / Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade (Safe 8, 85823) Octavo. First printing. Original dust jacket (toning, minor stain) over original light blue boards, published by Delacorte Press. Black endpapers. Signed by author July 21, 1999 on half-title page. 186 pp. First edition, first printing signed by author New York: Delacorte Press, 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five is a cornerstone in American literature, emblematic of Kurt Vonnegut's unique blend of satire, science fiction, and historical narrative to probe the absurdity and tragedy of war. Its non-linear storytelling, centered around the protagonist Billy Pilgrim's unstuck journey in time, offers a multifaceted critique of the human condition under the duress of war, particularly echoing Vonnegut's own experiences as a prisoner of war during the Dresden bombings in World War II. The novel's exploration of free will, fatalism, and the search for meaning amidst chaos resonates deeply, making it a critical text for understanding postmodern narrative techniques and the enduring impact of war on society. Through Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut challenges readers to confront the destructiveness of war and the illusion of progress, encapsulating the paradoxes of the 20th century's technological advancements and humanitarian failures.
Seller: Barry Lawrence Ruderman, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boldly signed by Vonnegut to second free-fly. Turquoise cloth in nice original unclipped dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Gilt title on spine and front cover of boards. Black endpapers. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Previous owner's 1.5 inch circular embossed stamp to half-title. PSA/DNA Letter of Authenticity included. A clean copy without further owners' names or other markings. 5.75 x 8.5 in
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$9200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page in a contemporary hand, "Peace Kurt Vonnegut Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example. "Slaughterhouse-Five, perhaps Vonnegut's most powerful novel, presents two characters who can see beneath the surface to the tragic realities of human history but make no attempt to bring about change The central event is the destruction of Dresden by bombs and fire storma catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war" (Vinson, 1414-15). "Kurt Vonnegut knows all the tricks of the writing game. So he has not even tried to describe the bombing. Instead he has written around it in a highly imaginative, often funny, nearly psychedelic story. The story is sandwiched between an autobiographical introduction and epilogue" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1972 film bearing the same name. The screenplay written by Stephen Geller and directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Near Fine with slight toning to cloth to spine and edges, to small stains to textblock edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate staining to the front panel, toning and edge wear.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Delacorte Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Near Fine with light lean to binding, toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning heaviest at spine and edges, light creases to rear cover at top left corner. A lovely copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut with a drawing of a self-caricature on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom clamshell box. "Slaughterhouse-Five, perhaps Vonnegut's most powerful novel, presents two characters who can see beneath the surface to the tragic realities of human history but make no attempt to bring about change The central event is the destruction of Dresden by bombs and fire storma catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war" (Vinson, 1414-15). "Kurt Vonnegut knows all the tricks of the writing game. So he has not even tried to describe the bombing. Instead he has written around it in a highly imaginative, often funny, nearly psychedelic story. The story is sandwiched between an autobiographical introduction and epilogue" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1972 film bearing the same name. The screenplay written by Stephen Geller and directed by George Roy Hill. It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Delacorte Press, New York, 1969. First edition, first printing (as marked on copyright page). First-state jacket, with price ($5.95) intact on front flap and "0369" on rear flap. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Faint foxing. Jacket has slight wear to extremities, as well as some darkening and offsetting.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.