8vo. Original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, black, and red (slight lean to spine, light sunning to extremes); dust jacket (overall toned as usual, top edge of front panel lightly bumped, neat ownership signature penned on front flap).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Vonnegut's scathing anti-war classic, based on his own experiences as a POW who survived the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. In the first state dust jacket priced $5.95 and with the correct code of 0369 at the foot of the rear flap. Currey, p.504.