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Lot 260
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$2,540
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Lot Description
VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969.
8vo. Original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red, and black (spine slightly slanted); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some light toning and soiling, tiny wormhole near the head of spine panel, slight rubbing to folds and minor chipping). Provenance: Savile Book Shop, Washington, D.C. (bookseller's ticket on front flap); D.M.C. Intosh (signature, 1969).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). SIGNED BY VONNEGUT WITH HIS SIGNATURE ASTERISK MOTIF on the front fly-leaf. In the FIRST STATE DUST JACKET priced "$5.95" with the correct "0369" code at foot of the rear flap. Vonnegut's scathing anti-war classic was based on his own experiences as a POW who survived the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945.
Suggested estimate - $800-1,200
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie