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Lot 223
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,125
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Lot Description
VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, 1969.
8vo. Original turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, black and red (touch of fading to extreme spine ends); dust jacket (front flap with slightly toned strip along fore-edge, otherwise very fine).
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 First State dust jacket with priced $5.95, with the correct code of 0369 at foot of the rear flap.