Condition Report
Contact Information
Lot 288
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Own a similar item?
Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$1,016
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
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 slanted, hinges loose, some fading to extremities, corners lightly bumped); in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some creasing along folds, toned).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). SIGNED BY VONNEGUT on the front fly-leaf. Vonnegut's scathing anti-war classic was based on his own experiences as a POW who survived the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945.