VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
"And so it goes...": First Edition of Slaughterhouse-Five; Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.
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First edition, second printing of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For David and Loni - Nice, nice, very nice, so many different people in the same device. Kurt Vonnegut. Barnstable, Mass. August 14, 1969." David Hayman was the Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light chipping. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Accompanied by an article from the New York Times on Kurt Vonnegut dated October 25, 1970 laid in at the rear. An exceptional association.
"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 storm—a 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.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
$4,800.00
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