Slaughterhouse Five, or the Children's Crusade [Signed]
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. Jacket Design by Paul Bacon. Fourth printing. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and gilt, black, and metallic red to spine. Textured black endpapers. 186pp. Signed to half-title page. Arguably the most famous work from American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). A "slipstream" work of science-fiction based on his own experience as an imprisoned American soldier during the U.S. firebombing of Dresden. The novel became a runaway success during its Vietnam-era publication, a transcendentally renewed articulation of the timeless horrors of war that brought Vonnegut fully onto the main stage of American letters.
This copy signed by Vonnegut to half-title page in blue ink. About Very Good. Boards toned at perimeter; spine lightly cocked and pushed at ends; a few stray spots of foxing to text block and jacket; contents clean. Clipped dust jacket uniformly soiled; toned about perimeter; lightly edgeworn. Item #3969
Price: $1,500.00