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Author: Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five; or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Place: New York
Publisher: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence
Date: [1969]
Item # : 168603
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   428
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 1610
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Description:
Blue cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition, advance review copy.
Signed by the author in green ink on a pre-paid postcard postmarked September 20, 1996; also, the publisher's scarce printed and typed review slip and typed press release letter, each dated March 31, 1969, both laid in; fading and wear to edges on both. Probably Vonnegut's most important book and basis for the 1972 film. Jacket with dated code "0369" on rear flap.
Condition:
Darkening to jacket spine and margins; other slight wear overall; about fine in a near fine jacket.
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