Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
VONNEGUT, KURT. WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. delacorte press, 1968, first edition ,,, 1968.
Price: US$53.00 + shipping
Description: Good -very good , chips at spine ends and corners, darker folds, $5.95 price intact jacket only, NO BOOK
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut Kurt Jr.. Welcome to the Monkey House. Delacorte Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Withdrawn library copy with stamps, markings and pocket, break in rear spine. Dust jacket in brodart, glued to boards. Stains, handling, well read book. Tear to page 13, text very good.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse. Delacorte Press, 1968.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
VONNEGUT, KURT. WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE. NEW YORK NY DELACORTE PRESS PUB 1968., 1968.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: VG/VG. IN PAPERBACK FORMAT TITLED "CANARY IN A CAT HOUSE" BOOK HAS SOME LIGHT SOILING TO THE YELLOW CLOTH SPINE BUT IS OTHERWISE A CLEAN TIGHT COPY. D.J. HAS A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, LIGHT WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND THE ENDS OF THE COLOR LIGHTLY COLOR-FADED SPINE PANEL (MAINLY THE YELLOW OVAL), AND SOME SCATTERED RUBBING AND SMALL SURFACE ABRASIONS TO THE FRONT PANEL. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut. Welcome to the Monkey House. Delacorte Press, 1968.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. First printing. A previous owners inscription to the half-title page, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine, bright dust jacket, price clipped and just with mild toning and a touch of sunning to the spine. An uncommonly crisp copy. One of 5000 printed, a collection of twenty-five of Vonneguts short stories.
Seller: Canton Books, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works. Delacorte Press, 1968.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition! Stated, 'First Delacorte Printing' on the copyright page. Some wear and tear to the jacket. Pages are tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xv, [3], 298, [1]. A very good copy in quarter yellow cloth (small dent at head of spine) in very good dw. (17 cm. tear in upper front wr., head of spine wrinkled, price-clipped). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. DELACORTE PRESS, 1968.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First DELACORTE edition first printing. This book was set in Caledonia and Onyx types, Printed and Bound by American Book Stratford Press, Inc. It was Designed by Larry Kamp. No markings. Bookplate on fep. Tight binding. General wear and rubbed cover. DATE PUBLISHED: 1968 EDITION: 298
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House (1st printing). Delacorte Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Delacorte Press. New York. 1968. 298 pages. First edition stated. 1st printing. Original 1st issue DJ with $5.95 price intact on DJ flap. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are strong. Pages lay tight and undisturbed; seemingly unread. Panels are clean and corners are sharp. DJ is bright and attractive. DJ would grade fine if not for a couple of tiny chips. A very nice, attractive copy. VG+/VG+
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. Delacorte Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. xv, [iii], 299 pp. Bound in publisher's black boards with yellow cloth backstrip, stamped in purple and black. Fine in Fine dust jacket with trivial shelf wear, unclipped ($5.95). An attractive, bright, unread copy with no fading.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth backed boards. Collects 25 stories including twelve previously published in CANARY IN A CAT HOUSE. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-394. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2447-50. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AG1. Inked gift inscription to front free end paper, a fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear to the spine ends and several wrinkles to the lower rear panel. (2165)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 5000 copies printed. Twenty-five stories including eleven (of the twelve) published earlier in CANARY IN A CAT HOUSE (1961). Includes "Welcome to the Monkey House." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-394. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2447-50. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AG1. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket ($5.95 price printed on front flap) with a couple of tiny rubs to front panel and some mild general dust soiling. A very nice copy. (#140055)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very handsome copy bound in a finely woven yellow cloth spine stamped brightly in red and black; and in black paper-covered boards stamped with a pink hand at the bottom of the front panel. Very clean and tight throughout, apparently unread. In a handsome, colorful and complete dustjacket featuring 6 photos of Vonnegut on the rear panel. With the original price of $5.95 at the top of the inside front flap. With some darkening and a touch of foxing to the spine. Light toning to the front and rear panel edges of the jacket; with one tiny tear at the bottom of the rear panel. A great copy of the book in an attractive dustjacket. A collectible copy of this collection of short stories which includes: "Harrison Bergeron," "Welcome to the Monkey House," "Miss Temptation," "More Stately Mansions," and "The Hyannis Port Story" among others.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The author's first collection of short work. This copy is signed and dated on the front free endpaper 11/11/00. The dust jacket has minor chips to the bottom of the spine.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. Delacorte Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Kurt Vonnegut on a laid in signature. This original First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publishers cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: Tall octavo, salmon wrappers printed in black, spiral bound with white plastic spine. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. Quantity of copies produced unknown to us, but in our experience, this is among the more elusive of the advance issues of Vonnegut's major works. Not recorded by Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz, and Klinkowitz AG1 who were apparently unaware of this issue. Twenty-five stories including eleven (of the twelve) published earlier in CANARY IN A CAT HOUSE (1961). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-394. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2447-50. Mild dust soiling to wrappers, a nearly fine copy. Rare. (#132213)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the Monkey House. Delacorte Press, New York, 1968.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. xv, [iii], 299 pp. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title. Bound in publisher's black boards with yellow cloth backstrip, stamped in purple and black. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial wear to ends and fading to yellow print on spine. A bright copy of this collection of stories, signed by Vonnegut.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.