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Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. Delacorte Press, New York, 1973.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition/Stated 1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). hint of spine lean. DJ has light edge wear and spine sunning. $7.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Comes with original 2007 New York Times obituary for Vonnegut. (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned softcover copy of Vonnegut's "A Man Without A Country"). --Note: No International orders for this book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. "You have to hand it to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. In his eighth novel, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, he performs considerable complex magic. He wheels out all the latest fashionable complaints about Americaher racism, her gift for destroying language, her technological greed and selfishnessand makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable, all at the same time" (New York Times). It was adapted to film the 1999 film, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and Albert Finney as Kilgore Trout.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. Delacorte Press, New York, 1973.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half title page. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with titles stamped in gilt and black, yellow topstain. Near Fine with lean to binding, slight liftin to front paste down, former owner inscription to first blank page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, fading to spine, small corner crease to front flap and toning to the blindside. A lovely copy of one of Vonnegut's most popular novels, signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FINE. Appears unread with a square and tight spine. Sharp corners that are not bumped. No marks, writing or stamps. NEAR FINE+ dust-jacket with a couple of very light marks to the top of the spine. Free of any closed or open tears. No edge-wear. The graphics are clear and not faded. Personally signed by Kurt Vonnegut, who emerged as a novelist and essayist in the 1960s and known for his satirical literary style, as well as the science-fiction elements in much of his work. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET Delacorte Press 1973. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr . "Breakfast of Champions". Boldly signed by the author with a blue pen directly onto the title page. First Edition, First Printing with original unclipped dust-jacket. "First Printing-1973" as required on the copyright page of the book. Bookseller issued COA. Includes custom matching tray-case. Octavo. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with titles stamped in gilt, black and yellow. The book includes drawings by the author. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. An exceptional original example. Includes the first edition, first issue points: "First Printing-1973" as required on the copyright page. $7.95 price on the dust-jacket flap. 0573 code on the lower portion of dust-jacket. ABOUT THE BOOK. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok. ABOUT THE BOOK. Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.[1] He published 14 novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further collections have been published since his death. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox. He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau.
Seller: veryfinebooks, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the half-title page, "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. An exceptional example. "You have to hand it to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. In his eighth novel, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, he performs considerable complex magic. He wheels out all the latest fashionable complaints about Americaher racism, her gift for destroying language, her technological greed and selfishnessand makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable, all at the same time" (New York Times). It was adapted to film the 1999 film, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and Albert Finney as Kilgore Trout.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr.. BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. DELACORTE PRESS, NY, 1973.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: As New First Edition. Signed and dated 11/11/96 on the half-title page with his large signature and his asterisk. A wonderful First Edition collectible.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.