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Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird : a novel. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979.
Price: US$150.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: jailbird by kurt vonnegut. 1979 1st Delacorte Publishing. Book is in excellent condition. No rips or tears on the inside pages. Slight wear on the dust jacket.
Seller: Vintage PEC House, Hillier, ON, Canada
Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird (Signed Limitd Edition). Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, New York, 1979.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 246pp. Beautiful Stated First Delacorte Edition, #155 of only 500 copies published. Bound in black cloth with gold spine lettering and all edges gilt. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A hint of toning to the spine cloth but quite minor. Publisher's slipcase has some soiling around the gold foil label and toning edges Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, kurt. Jailbird. Delacorte press/Seymour Lawrence, New York, 1979.
Price: US$221.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "New York, Delacorte press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. Couverture rigide, [1] f. - xxix pp. - [1] f. - 246 pp. Toile noire de l?éditeur avec titre au dos, tranches dorées. Étui avec pièce de titre dorée présentant la signature de l?auteur. Légère décoloration au bord de l?étui, pli à la pièce de titre. ÉDITION ORIGINALE. UN DES 500 EXEMPLAIRES NUMÉROTÉS ET SIGNÉS PAR L'AUTEUR, seul tirage en grand-papier conservés dans étui éditeur. Décrit dans le New York Times book review comme le "sermon sur la montagne" de Vonnegut, Jailbird couvre aussi bien le scandale de Watergate que l'histoire du mouvement ouvrier. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 numbered copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Described by the New York Times book review as Vonnegut's "Sermon on the Mount," this novel explores the Watergate scandal and the history of the labor movement. Publishers' black cloth, all edges gilt. Slipcase with a gold title piece featuring Vonnegut's signature. Discoloration on the edges of the slipcase, fold on the title piece."
Seller: Librairie le pas sage, PARIS, France
VONNEGUT, Kurt. JAILBIRD. Delacorte Press, N. Y., 1979.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Still in original shrinkwrap.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Vonnegut, Kurt. JAILBIRD. Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [New York], 1979.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First trade edition. Signed by Vonnegut. One of Vonnegut's later, less serious works. "Fun and wit and laughs aplenty are not lacking, but thought is in short supply." - Perry D. Westbrook, in Henderson (ed), Contemporary Novelists, p. 909. Pieratt, Huffman-klinkowitz and Klinkowitz AN1. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. "Doubleday Book Shops / autographed / copy" sticker on front panel of jacket. (#140064)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.