Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE SIRENS OF TITAN Custom Clamshell Case Only. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: [1961, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case with rounded spine with raised bars. [Not A Book] for The First Edition. Elegant Black leather and fine purple cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed multi-layered, [sculpted] design on the side graphically inspired from the Tralfamadorian and Harmoniums. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. A Handsome Collector's Custom Case for an important Collection. "Books definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Generally over 100 in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included Size can be adapted to soft or hardcover first editions.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961.
Price: US$1275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing in dark blue boards. Library markings: white "V" on spine, discard and library stamps, pocket removed. Inside boards, tape reinforced and tape residue. Edge and shelfwear. Corners bumped.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$3864.79 + shipping
Description: First hardback edition, first printing, of the author's second novel, preceded by the 1959 Dell paperback edition. The hardback edition is scarcer than the paperback. The work elicited praise from fellow sci-fi author Douglas Adams: "Sirens of Titan is just one of those books you read it through the first time and you think it's very loosely, casually written. You think the fact that everything suddenly makes such good sense at the end is almost accidental. And then you read it a few more times, simultaneously finding out more about writing yourself, and you realise what an absolute tour de force it was, making something as beautifully honed as that appear so casual". Ian Shircore, "Douglas Adams: The First and Last Tapes", Darker Matter, available online. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white. With dust jacket. Head of spine bumped, covers slightly bowed, top edge foxed with a few spots to endpapers, front inner hinge professionally repaired; jacket foxed and lightly toned, unclipped, front panel bright: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Vonnegut, Kurt. THE SIRENS OF TITAN .. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. The author's second novel. 2500 copies printed. "Excellent satire." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-192. 1960 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1203. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 31. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, and some tanning to spine panel, rear panel along spine fold, and upper edges of flaps. Quite a nice copy of this elusive edition which is uncommon in superior condition. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box. (#159292)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First hardcover edition, first printing. One of 2,500 copies. Publisher's black cloth, with front board and spine lettered in white; in its original wraparound pictorial dust jacket, printed in purple and green, lettered in white, with photograph of Vonnegut to rear panel taken by Anne Simpkins. About fine, with just some light rubbing to spine ends and corners, and a touch of toning to head of spine; near fine dust unclipped dust jacket, with some toning and a few light marks to spine, some light wear and shallow chipping to spine ends, a tiny bit of soiling to rear panel, and a small closed tear to top edge of front panel. Overall, an exceptionally tight and attractive copy. Pieratt and Klinkowitz AB2. The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut's second novel, is a comic science fiction novel that revolves around three main characters - Winston Niles Rumfoord, whose space flight through the chronosynclastic infundibulum gives him the ability to predict the future, Malachi Constant, the richest man on earth who gets swept up in an interplanetary war, and Salo, a robot from the planet Tralfamadore whose ship is stranded on Saturn's moon, Titan. The novel explores the subject of free will, a subject that Vonnegut revisits in subsequent books, like Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Breakfast of Champions (1972). Douglas Adams, in a 1979 interview in which he discusses Vonnegut's influence on his book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), says, "Sirens of Titan is just one of those books - you read it through the first time and you think it's very loosely, casually written And then you read it a few more times, simultaneously finding out more about writing yourself, and you realize what an absolute tour de force it was, making something as beautifully honed as that appear so casual."
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. THE SIRENS OF TITAN. Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Price: US$4540.75 + shipping
Description: THE SIRENS OF TITAN, Houghton Mifflin, 1961, first hard-cover edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper with some light dust-soil to the rear dust-wrapper panel and a bit of tanning to the dust-wrapper spine. A beautiful copy of a most scarce book. 1/2,500 copies. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a Dell paperback edition. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in white. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth and trivial wear at corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light wear at the extremities, light creases to front flap. A lovely copy of one of the most uncommon Vonnegut novels.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1961.
Price: US$5495.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. No previous owner markings. 319 pages. Stated first edition of author's second novel. Rare hardcover copy. Only 2,500 copies of the hardcover version were printed. A handsome, collectible copy!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This original first issue dustjacket has minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the original publisher's dark blue cloth with white lettering.
Seller: Windfall Books, Stuyvesant, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1961.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Printing" printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the ORIGNAL publisher's dark blue cloth with white lettering. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. THE SIRENS OF TITAN .. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. The author's second novel. 2500 copies printed. "Excellent satire." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-192. 1960 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1203. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 31. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and tanning, mostly internal, but with light show through to lettering on spine panel and to rear panel. Still a superior copy of this title. (#155560)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1961.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Kurt Vonnegut on a laid in signature. A magnificent copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO fading to the spine. This First Issue dustjacket has the publisher's $3.50 printed price present on the front flap with NO chips or tears. The book is fabulous shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Jr., Kurt. The Sirens of Titan.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1961.
Price: US$9800.00 + shipping
Description: First hardcover edition of the author's second novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example, uncommon signed. 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."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.